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All people have their own problems, some more drastic then others. A person may have poor eyesight, another may have muscle problems. Now, what if you have a bacteria infection; and wish to get rid of it? Then Tetracycline is the drug for you to be interested in. Tetracycline is a drug focused on greatly reducing the bacteria in an area of the body. If you have any kind of infection, this is the drug for you. However, you may be asking "what exactly does it do to help me? What are the side…

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics that at one time were able to kill them. It is a growing issue in today’s society especially since it is unknown how these microbes are able to mutate around a treatment that was once lethal to them. The consensus in the healthcare community is that these microbes will be an increasing threat until a solution is found. There is still discussion and controversy over the best method of identification and infection…

As mentioned earlier, this experiement investigates “How effective are antimicrobial substances; natural compared to synthetic at preventing the bacterial growth of E.coli?” Despite the numerous trials conducted for accuracy, further experiment would need to be done in order to completely determine the effectiveness of both natural and synthetic antimicrobial substances. The hypothesis of this experiment stated that the synthetic antimicrobial substance used: Dettol was much more effective in…

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…

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…