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See book keywords and concepts |  Thyme is especially useful against staph infections. Cleavers is a gentle, nourishing lymphagogue. Combine equal parts of each herb and drink an infusion made from 1-2 tsp per cup of water, three to four times daily.
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Menopause marks the end of menstruation and a woman's reproductive years. There is no definitive age at which this occurs. On average it tends to happen around the age of 51, but there have been cases where periods have stopped in women in their 20s, while other women will continue to menstruate until their late 50s or early 60s. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |  But just eight years later, in 1950, 40 percent of all staph infections were penicillin-resistant. By 1960, that number had climbed to 80 percent. Treatment switched to a specialized relative of penicillin called methicillin, which was introduced in 1959—and two years later, the first incident of methicillin-resistant staph, known as MRSA, was reported. MRSA is now firmly entrenched in hospitals, and treatment has moved to a different class of antibiotics, usually with one called vancomycin. The first case of VRSA—yes, vancomycin-resistant staph—was reported in 1996 in Japan. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  Penicillin is still useful against many strep and staph infections that cause sore throat, skin infections, and some sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea. The most common Streptococcus infection is strep throat. In spite of the fact that only 10% of those complaining of a sore throat who visit a doctor actually have a Streptococcus infection, 75% walk out the door with a prescription for an antibiotic. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These enzymes are weapons evolved by the bacteria over time that have rendered several antibiotics useless against staph infections.
Cloxacillin is one of the antibiotics prescribed to treat certain staph infections because it is able to resist such enzymes.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's side effects include rashes, allergic reactions, and seizures. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Horror stories of staph infections and amputations can make the hospital stay after surgery scarier than the procedure itself.
Post-surgery recovery can be another time of great concern. Did the staff sterilize the medical equipment carefully? Did they follow guidelines to prepare properly for the surgery? Even when medical staff follow procedures by the book, something as simple as your doctor's necktie - which an Israeli study found to be an unknown source of contamination in hospitals - can derail your recovery. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  T-Up Biosystems produces a 70% concentrate of Aloe Vera reported to control colds, flu, staph infections, strep, corynebacterium, Candida, Epstein-Barrvirus, parasites, measles, mumps, chickenpox, herpes, multiple sclerosis, corrects T-4 and T-8 Lymphocytes, doubles T-cel 1 count in 3 weeks, lowers p-24 core antigen, counters HIV and A.I.D.S.(62-125mcg./ml. Acemannen and Polymannans), livertumors; frostbite and severe bums; stress, neuralgia, heart disease; lowers blood glucose and diabetes; pancreatitis, col itis, and Crohn's disease.
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Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Cloxacillin is one of the antibiotics prescribed to treat certain staph infections because it is able to resist such enzymes.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's side effects include rashes, allergic reactions, and seizures. | | The combination of these two medicines can fight the staph infections that ticarcillin alone cannot.
Possible Side Effects
The side effects with either ticarcillin or ticarcillin plus clavulanate potassium include confusion, convulsions, drowsiness, and rash. |
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
See book keywords and concepts |  Calvin Warriner, a West Palm Beach lawyer who represents Lydon in her action against the Tenet hospital, says he has documented more than 100 similar cases of cardiac patients who contracted virulent staph infections because of unsanitary conditions at Palm Beach Gardens. Warriner has said most of the cases were caused by penicillin-resistant forms of bacteria. Warriner told the Jupiter Courier, "[These people] thought heart surgery would make them better and look at them now."
Though crippled for life, Lydon fared better than some who went under the knife at Palm Beach Gardens. She lived. | | Warriner says he has documented sixteen cases of patients who died from staph infections.
After the infections became known, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services threatened to revoke the hospital's Medicare certification unless the problem was brought under control. "This action was taken because of infection-control issues," said Hugh Miller, a CMS official in Atlanta. Months later, after new procedures were implemented by Palm Beach, federal and state officials withdrew their plans to bar treatment there for Medicare patients. |
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See book keywords and concepts |  The drug Risanpin, an antibiotic usually prescribed for tuberculosis or staph infections, can turn urine a shade of blue or green. And some diagnostic drugs will paint your urine a peculiar hue, but they're prescribed for that express purpose.
Very yellow urine means you're dehydrated and not drinking enough water. Chronic dehydration, with urine that's almost constantly a concentrated yellow—even when you don't think you're all that thirsty—can lead to kidney stones, Dr. Crawford cautions. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Ledebouriella has an inhibitory effect against some flu viruses as well as the bacteria that cause pseudomonas, shigella, and staph infections. Taken in teas, it relieves fever. Ledebouriella teas also raise the threshold of pain— that is, they lower the sensitivity of the nervous system to pain. Chinese physicians have even found ledebouriella to be an effective antidote to arsenic poisoning.
The most common application of this formula today is for weight control. | | Unchecked staph infections can spread to adjacent tissues, causing cellulitis, or enter the bloodstream, causing bacteremia. When boils do respond to treatment within two to three days, continue the treatment for seven to fourteen days, and at least two or three days after outward symptoms have disappeared.
Unless otherwise specified, the herb dosages recommended here are for adults. Children under age six should be given one-quarter of the adult dosage. Children between the ages of six and twelve should be given one-half of the adult dosage. | | Prevents staph infections.
Garlic"
Enteric-coated tablets, 900 mg daily.
Prevents cell-to-cell transmission of HIV in the bloodstream.
Licorice5
Glycyrrhizin tablets. Take 50-75 mg daily. Use for 6 weeks, then take a 2-week break. Do not substitute deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL).
Increases T-cell counts and preserves immune function. Consume potassium-rich foods such as bananas or citrus juices, or take a potassium supplement, daily when taking this herb.
Magnolia vine berries
Take as directed on the label.
Increase oxygen absorption and boost the immune system.
Maitake
Maitake-D. | | Prevents staph infections.
Epimedium5
Form and dosage recommended by TCM practitioner.
Stimulates testosterone production and prevents muscle wasting.
Licorice6
Glycyrrhizin tablets, 50-75 mg daily. Use for 6 weeks, then take a 2-week break. Do not substitute deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL).
Increases T-cell counts and preserves immune function. Consume potassium-rich foods such as bananas or citrus juices, or take a potassium supplement, daily when taking this herb.
Maitake
Maitake-D, as directed on the label.
Toxic to HIV; keeps virus from entering cells. | | In addition, it acts against staph infections and helps stimulate the heart. The Chinese name of this herb, bu gu zhi, means "tonify bone resin." Psoralea is used to promote bone calcification, making it useful for treating osteoporosis and bone fractures. Psoralens, components in psoralea, are active principles for inducing pigmentation of the skin. They cause residual pigmentation when applied on hypo-pigmented skin, together with increased blood flow and melanin-producing activity in the affected area.
Benefits of psoralea for specific health conditions include the following:
• Cancer. |
Larry Dossey
See book keywords and concepts |  His ironlike constitution enabled him to survive a volley of illnesses that would have killed weaker men—dysentery, influenza, malaria, mumps, pleurisy, pneumonia, rickets, smallpox, staph infections, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever—not even counting all the lead shot at him. It is ironic that in the end he succumbed to an illness that today is regarded more as a nuisance than a disease and that can be cured by a single injection or a handful of pills: strep throat. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  As a result, drug-resistant staph infections are rampant throughout hospitals in the United States. And for many common conditions, such as ear infections in children, antibiotics have been rendered useless. Obviously, we need to find new ways to fight bacterial infections that will not create even bigger problems down the road. If we are more sparing in our use of antibiotics, they will be effective when we really do need them.
Lactoferrin, a supplement new to natural food stores, is a giant leap in the right direction. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
See book keywords and concepts |  The defects in immune function, coupled with intense scratching and the predominance of pathogenic staphylococcus in the skin flora of these patients, lead to the susceptibility to staph infections. There are also cell-mediated immunity defects that lead to increased susceptibility to cutaneous yeast and fungal infections. It is interesting that these patients' symptoms could have a cyclical effect; during clinical remission, cell-mediated immunity is normalized and becomes abnormal during recurrence of the dermatitis. | | Because staph infections are also pruritic, bacterial infections must be treated with appropriate antibiotics for a minimum of two to three weeks. Note that some cats show respiratory or asthmatic conditions and not skin diseases. These asthmatic patients also have severely compromised immune systems and must be built up.
I have not found allergy testing and desensitization to be cost effective. I believe these are a waste of time and money and often provide conflicting results. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts |  Echinacea may also help fight off other viral and bacterial infections, such as strep throat, staph infections, recurring vaginal yeast infections, urinary tract infections, herpes, bronchitis, and ear infections.
Caution: Although it's okay to treat common colds and flu with echinacea, self-diagnosing and self-treating chronic infections with echinacea could be unwise. Such infections may have an underlying and perhaps reversible cause and need medical attention. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is useful in angina, arthritis, athletic injury, connective tissue inflammation, bronchitis, burns, cellulitis, dysmenorrhea, edema, bruising, poor digestion, pancreatic insufficiency, pancreatitis, pneumonia, scleroderma, sinusitis, staph infections, postsurgical trauma, and thrombophlebitis. I consider bromelain second only to tien chi root for speeding recovery from trauma. Both can be used together as an effective combination. |
Leo Galland
See book keywords and concepts |  But vancomycin has not only been used for treating staph infections; it is also used to kill other bacteria. By 1988, a few strains of Enterococcus, which is a distant relative of Staphylococcus, had learned how to defeat vancomycin. Over the next five years, the frequency with which vancomycin-resistant Enterococci were found in hospitals increased by 2,600 percent. Vancomycin use is now under stricter control, but it is not rolling back the numbers of resistant organisms.51 In the summer of 1997, a vancomycin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus emerged in a hospital in Japan. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  The FDA does not believe the use of neomycin in deodorants is justified because it caused resistant strains of staphylococci to develop. Such staph infections are extremely difficult to treat and could be lethal.
NEOMYCIN SULFATE • Introduced in 1951, it is one of the most widely used antibiotics for humans. In a cream or ointment, it is used to treat skin infections, minor burns, wounds, skin grafts, itching, inflammation of the outer ear, and skin ulcers. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts | | Chinese studies on phellodendron bark show a broad-spectrum antibiotic effect against organisms that cause diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, staph infections, pneumonia, conjunctivitis, trachoma, and meningitis. It is often used in injectable form (reported in Huang, 1999; reported in Yeung, 1983).
• Others have shown action against various forms of Candida, as well as viruses (Park et al., 1999).
• In tests examining eight different herbs, phellodendron bark proved to be the most potent suppressor of immune inflammation in animal graft-versus-host reactions (Mori et al., 1994). |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts | | In one study, penicillin-resistant staph infections remained sensitive to Scutellaria. Tinctures of this herb are effective against fungal infections of the skin and tongue.
You should not use this formula if you take medication for a seizure disorder, since it alters the fluid balance in the body and can change the concentration of seizure medications in the bloodstream. |
Dr. Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  A study showed that bromelain appeared as effective as antibiotics in treating a variety of infectious processes, including pneumonia, skin, staph infections, kidney infections, and bronchitis, and that bromelain is particularly useful as a supplement to antibiotics.
R. A. Neubauer, " A Plant Protease for the Potentiation of and Possible Replacement of Antibiotics," Experimental Med Surgery 19 (1961): 143-60.
Echinacin greatly accentuates the efficacy of a topical antimycotic agent (econazol nitrate) in preventing recurrence of vaginal candidiasis. | | A study showed that bromelain appeared as effective as antibiotics in treating a variety of infectious processes, including pneumonia, skin, staph infections, kidney infections, and bronchitis, and that bromelain is particularly useful as a supplement to antibiotics.
R. A. Neubauer, " A Plant Protease for the Potentiation of and Possible Replacement of Antibiotics," Experimental Med Surgery 19 (1961): 143-60.
Echinacin greatly accentuates the efficacy of a topical antimycotic agent (econazol nitrate) in preventing recurrence of vaginal candidiasis. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts |  An example would be antibiotic-resistant staph infections.
Karta Purkh recalls one woman who had a staphylococcus infection in one of her toes. She said she had been given three different courses of antibiotics, and none had worked. Her doctors told her the infection was antibiotic resistant and there was nothing they could do. She was told to "watch it." (Watch what?) A year later, the infection had spread to another toe. It occurred to her that she was going to lose her foot a few years down the road if this kept progressing. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, the commonly feared "red streaks" in the tissues which develop from infected wounds are usually caused by staph infections.
The greatest dilemma with staph is that it has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Currently, a bizarre type of mutant staph has been attacking humans, which is immune to all synthetic antibiotics. Known as MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) this germ could likely prove fatal in virtually any individual. Deaths from the germ have been reported in Japan, Canada, England, and the United States. |
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