Sunday, October 9, 2011

Disease Contamination at Hospitals are Possibly Caused by Scrubs Cheap and Nursing Uniforms


Ever heard of MRSA or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type or strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to some antibiotics commonly used to treat staph infections. This dangerous antibiotic-resistant infection has plagued hospitals for years. Sadly, nurses and doctors are the ideal agents of these superbugs as they go along their hospital duties. The harmful pathogens, including MRSA, collect in their nursing uniforms or scrubs cheap and they may pass the danger to other patients, to their families or even their colleagues.
Previous research and studies have found that nurses’ scrubs uniforms are often contaminated. In 1969, Staphylococcus aureus was found by British researches on nurses uniforms. Some British researchers on 1983 also reported contamination of cotton gowns and in 2001 another team reported finding Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on nursing uniforms. Now, a recent study by Israeli scientists, led by Yonit Wiener-Well, M.D., from the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, showed that medical scrubs cheap and nursing uniforms are contaminated by harmful pathogens including MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The study which was published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control reported that 65 % of the hospital nurses uniforms and 60% of the doctors’ uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria.
So, what do you think? Are nursing uniforms and scrubs cheap the culprit for the contamination of disease from the hospitals to our community? And if this is true, what should hospitals do in order to prevent the said contamination?

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