Clostridium tetani

Antibiotic Resistance Research Antibiotics have been used in the United States for many years which has led to a reduction in illness and death from infection and diseases. The over usage in farms has led to major antibiotic resistance and a public health threat. So famers need to be more careful with the way they use their antibiotics. If farmers do not use antibiotics more cautiously our public health is going to have a major health issue. Some of the things we should be concerned about is,…

In everyday life, people use antibacterial products to sanitize their homes. Some of the common active ingredients in household cleaning products are thymol, lactic acid, sodium hypochlorite, and ethanol (e.g. active ingredient in some hand sanitizers). The purpose of our experiment was to determine if antibacterial products lost effectiveness in killing common bacteria in everyday environments after repeated use. This is an important environmental issue because if these products are losing…

The medicine stung as it went in and because of the saline it was mixed with, I felt an unsettling cold as it shot through my arm. Somehow, it caused me to taste a strange metallic and salty taste in the back of my mouth and made me uncomfortable for no reason. There is no way to explain it other than a feeling of uneasiness that was resolved by nothing. The treatment for migraines is painful and scary. No one could have predicted the severity of the struggle I began with migraines when I was…

What is SIBO? SIBO is an acronym for “small intestinal bacterial overgrowth”. While bacterium is naturally present in the digestive tract, in a healthy body, the small intestine contains relatively low levels of bacteria. The large intestine contains approximately 10-100 billion bacterial organisms, and bacteria is supposed to be at its highest concentration in the colon. Compared to this number, the small intestine is relatively sterile (containing a mere 100 thousand organisms). However,…

This summary and review of Botox Nation (Dana Berkowitz 2017) is a deep look into the development of the Botox phenomenon that is in our world today. Botox is a trend that is on the climb and is different from any other ‘anti-aging’ prevention or cure on the market. And somehow along the line Botox was given the okay to be passed off as a medical procedure with curative and preventative powers. (Berkowitz, 2017, p. 5) The author Dana Berkowitz uses Botox as an avenue to view how the norms of…

Imagine you have just received your very first session of liposuction. You are smiling, wearing belly shirts and prouder than ever of your new, slim figure. But suddenly you wake up one morning and far from looking like the cover of People magazine, your stomach seems red, swollen and is warm to the touch near the sites where your liposuction occurred. Remembering the doctor said something about side effects, you shrug it off and assume it will go away on its own. As the days…

Introduction: Resistance to antibiotics is an ongoing concern of the pharmaceutical industry. The limited number of antibiotics in the market to treat Gram negative bacteria made their resistance an issue that is being addressed worldwide. The isolation of colistin from Bacillus polymyxa var. colistinus in Japan in 1949 and the introduction of colistin into the market in 1959 as its inactive prodrug colistin methanesulfonate (CMS) were significant milestones in the treatment of this type of…

ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF HOSPITAL SUPPORT STAFF ON INFECTION PREVENTION IN THIKA LEVEL 5 HOSPITAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 STUDY BACKGROUND Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) also referred to as Nosocomial infections are those infections occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or any other health care facility that was not manifesting or incubating at the time of admission (Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet, 2011). Nosocomial Infections are not limited to…

The product is distributed at ambient temperature, has a shelf life of one year, does not require re-heating and has been on sale for one month. Hazard Identification: The bacterium Clostridium botulinum could grow during product distribution and storage. Cl. botulinum causes botulism, a condition where a person, who eats food where Cl. botulinum has grown and produced toxin, can die. Exposure Assessment: The product conditions and shelf…

Ever since the begging of time the medical practice has been in a fight with infections and disease control. From the early era of hospitals patients were at times in the same bed as another patient, thus spreading disease from one to another. A Hungarian obestritician by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis found and adovacted on the importance of hand washing. However, it was not until a physician by the name of Joseph Lister who created a spray to use while conducting surgery, thus being…