Cepacia Clearing House?

[lightNlife]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i> Those hosptial
wipes are called Sani-Cloth or Germicdial Wipes. It kills PA,
Staph, Salmonella, MRSA, Influenza A2 Aisan virus, Aspergillus,
Escherichia coli strain, & Herpes Simplex type 2. I ask for a
tub everytime Reece gets admitted & bring it home. It says to
wear gloves etc when using. So that tells you how strong it is!!!!
Leah</end quote></div><br>
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The Sani-Cloth Disinfectant Wipes are for use on nonporous hard
surface (i.e. NOT for wiping your hands). They are effective
against HIV-1, Staph aureus, e-coli, influenzaA1/HK, Herpes Simplex
II, salmonella, Psuedomonas and TB.<br>
<br>
Unless there's some pesticide in there (which OSHA wouldn't permit)
it cannot kill Aspergillus.

 

[Lilith]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>amy</b></i> nurses have told me of
angry cepacia patients who walk around the ward wiping their hands
on everything (without gloves) out of spite. YIKES!</end quote></div><br>
<br>
That's sick.  If I ever saw anyone doing that, I'd gown up,
walk right up to them and slug them.<br>
<br>
I usually try to stay in my room even though I'm only multi-drug
resistant.  I don't set foot outside my room until I'm going
home.  It may be boring, but its good protection from other
patients, especially ones like Amy's mentioned...<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif" border="0">

 

[amber682]

I just wanted to chime in...
We just got home from a hospitalization(we live in CT) and my son had contact and droplet precautions. Even before they had determined it was PA, just because he was sick and there was another cf patient on the floor. But I think he/she was in a different pod with different nurses. I wish I knew what they were culturing, but obviously I didn't ask cuz they can't tell me.

That meant masks, gowns, and gloves, even for mommy if I was going to be within 3 feet of him! (Which, of course, I was.) They said I could refuse because I'd be wearing it all day, so I couldn't go in the playroom, family kitchen, or wander the halls on our floor. Vinny was supposed to wear a mask whenever he left the room just until we got off the floor.

Anything that came in the room could not leave until we went home and it was cleaned. He had his own BP cuff and eventually his own stethoscope after a week of nurses asking where his was and then just using their own. There was the occasional nurse who came in without gown and mask but didn't touch him.

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[Emily65Roses]

Okay if I ever got cepacia I'd be pissed as all living hell. But who in the name of all that is good and whatever would do that out of SPITE for fellow CFers? Jesus H. I'd be pissed as hell, like I said, but how is giving cepacia to other CFers going to help you? God, those people are sick and disgusting.

I understand why cepacia patients are kept apart so strictly, but it still sucks. We already feel like freaks, cepacia CFers must feel like effing lepers.

However... a cepacia patient like that can be sent to leper island for all I care. Jeeeeeeezzzz.

Kay I'm done. Heh.

 

[Ratatosk]

When we asked about the community waiting room at our CF clinic, we were told it was no biggy because they don't have any cepacia cases at their hospital; however, there were 7 or 8 deaths in the early 90s caused by contaminated (cepacia laced) mouthwash. Plus there were two patients waiting for lung transplants, I know of -- one wcf the other with an undiagnosed interstial lung disease who were in the process of trying to get transferred to North Carolina, because U of MN wouldn't transplant them -- later was told by another cfer -- they both had cepacia.

Scary thing was that when I attended the funeral of the young girl, they talked about how she loved babysitting, how she loved helping to take care of the other kids on the peds ward when she was sick -- here they were allowing her to go into other patients rooms and help babysit.

BTW, I get the walmart sani-clothes that list a bunch of bugs including pseudo, mrsa... and I've also gotten some at target call PS that take care of nasty bugs, too. However, surface needs to remain wet for 10-15 minutes...

 

[Jane]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>

Those hosptial wipes are called Sani-Cloth or Germicdial Wipes. It kills PA, Staph, Salmonella, MRSA, Influenza A2 Aisan virus, Aspergillus, Escherichia coli strain, & Herpes Simplex type 2. I ask for a tub everytime Reece gets admitted & bring it home. It says to wear gloves etc when using. So that tells you how strong it is!!!!

Leah</end quote></div>



We always use these too, and YES they are strong! We wipe everything in the room when we are admitted. EVERYTHING!! You wouldn't believe the crap I've pulled out of the sink drain. gross gross gross. I feel like that room is our home when we're there and it has to be cleaned to our standards.

Our hospital is super careful with precautions after having an outbreak about 4 years ago and I feel pretty good about the changes, even the isolation. However, you can't be too safe. The people cleaning may not be as thorough as you would be.

 

[NoExcuses]

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[Ratatosk]

Years ago my MIL was a nurse in a tuberculosis ward. She credits not contracting it herself to very stringent guidelines -- frequent gown, glove and mask changes. Handwashing.... This was over 25-30 year ago. When DS was in the NICU recovering from surgery from his bowel obstruction she was horrified when the RTs wearing scrubs went from bed, to bed to bed to do CPT. They washed their hands, but she noticed that a lot of times, they'd cradle the babies in the arms, holding them up to their chests.

 

[MOME2RT]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>lightNlife</b></i>

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i> Those hosptial
wipes are called Sani-Cloth or Germicdial Wipes. It kills PA,
Staph, Salmonella, MRSA, Influenza A2 Aisan virus, Aspergillus,
Escherichia coli strain, & Herpes Simplex type 2. I ask for a
tub everytime Reece gets admitted & bring it home. It says to
wear gloves etc when using. So that tells you how strong it is!!!!
Leah</end quote></div>



The Sani-Cloth Disinfectant Wipes are for use on nonporous hard
surface (i.e. NOT for wiping your hands). They are effective
against HIV-1, Staph aureus, e-coli, influenzaA1/HK, Herpes Simplex
II, salmonella, Psuedomonas and TB.



Unless there's some pesticide in there (which OSHA wouldn't permit)
it cannot kill Aspergillus.</end quote></div>

Excatly, I didnt say I wiped my hands with them, I wipe down all the stuff inside the room. We use purell forpur hands.

 

[Giggles]

I bring Clorox Wipes with me to the hospital and we wipe down everything that I would touch like the phone, bed rails, lunch tray table, bathroom sink. Then I do not go out of the room and if and when I do I wash my hands and wear a mask outside of the room. Paranoid, but I am NOT getting any more sicker if I can help it!



Jennifer 34 years old with CF and CFRD