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Ysabel

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12. wow the last couple times when I was visiting people in the hospital...

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 09:19 PM

Nov 2024

I was afraid I'd catch something I touched a table in my son's room to move it and it had a nasty bit of gooey stuff on the underside of it. It got all over my hands and it stuck. I had to wash off in the bathroom and it was real hard to get off...

- and when I was staying in the hospital myself a whole lot of the staff were sick I was afraid I'd catch something from them some of them didn't even wear gloves which I thought was a bit odd...

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New Study: Common Hospital Infection Could Trigger Alzheimer's [View all] BootinUp Nov 2024 OP

I always take a probiotic. Especially when prescribed antibiotics. CousinIT Nov 2024 #1

I guess this is a fairly new idea. Hopefully the medical community BootinUp Nov 2024 #2

Unlikely Warpy Nov 2024 #3

But that is not the relevant question. The question they are trying to answer BootinUp Nov 2024 #4

People who work in health care are colonized with some of the Warpy Nov 2024 #5

Is colonized another way of saying they have an infection that has to be treated with Antibiotics? BootinUp Nov 2024 #6

No, it means every nasty bug known to medical science Warpy Nov 2024 #7

I thought so. You make a lot of sense Warpy. BootinUp Nov 2024 #8

Here is the FSU article Warpy Nov 2024 #9

Found it. BootinUp Nov 2024 #10

My daughter is a hospital nurse SCantiGOP Nov 2024 #11

wow the last couple times when I was visiting people in the hospital... Ysabel Nov 2024 #12