Infectious Diseases - March 2007

2007-03-15 14:14:24 · 18 answers · asked by bobbo 1

2007-03-15 12:41:09 · 12 answers · asked by redbonesh22 1

Is it a serious medical condition?

2007-03-15 12:12:57 · 2 answers · asked by beachprincesssc 2

3 It describes the interesting case of a nurse, working in a hospital in Den Bosch, who remained MRSA positive, even after treatment with various antibiotics. Here follows a translation of a statement by the bacteriologist, A Leenders, contained in that article: "One of the nurses, on her own initiative, suggested to the specialist that she should have her tonsils removed, because it was suspected that the MRSA resided in this organ. At the time it was uncertain whether the operation would change the MRSA status of the nurse. After the tonsillectomy, tests showed that the health worker had become MRSA negative. This indicates how far people will go. They have chosen to work in health care and they do not allow a bacterium to interfere with their vocation". I find this an altruistic attitude, but it does raise the moral question whether health care workers should undergo medical treatment with its inherent risks of complications, for the sake of the patients in their care?

2007-03-15 11:29:06 · 2 answers · asked by Blackout 3

2007-03-15 10:46:06 · 8 answers · asked by steve 5

please, don't waste your time by joking around on this question. i want at 10 sentece answer please. thank you

2007-03-15 10:07:51 · 3 answers · asked by D 2

Over i month ago I had a rely hight fever 39+ for about 2 weeks . that went . but i started geting bad head pains all over my head and presure on the my face like it wad full i also got dead hott a sweaty moments .. thier lasted for about to weeks so i went bk to the docttors n thier said i had tonlistus .. i finshed my antibotics . but my tonsels were still the same . so i went back . n thier cudent find anything rong but sent me for blood tests for glandular fever . the head aches have stoped but i sometimes get them at the back off my head .and now i feel very tired . nt that hungry . thirsty and have pains around the body ..

Due think i may get another fever again as the other fever may not have out to do with the glandular fever i have now ? . or due think its a good possiblity it did .

Am jst really worried because it was the worst i have ever felt ..

am 16

2007-03-15 10:06:33 · 4 answers · asked by katie r 1

my neice as been taken to hospital she is only 6months old with what the gp thinks to be meningitis. they are doing tests to determate if it is but i have been in close contact with my niece and i am also worried about my baby who is 10 months old i dont think she has any signs apart from the kinda like a lump on her soft spot on thefront of her head.which my sister mentioned 4 days ago and i just thought it was the shape of her head. could she have caught it or even worse got it and passed it on to my sisters daughter

2007-03-15 09:39:34 · 9 answers · asked by CLARE B 1

after somebody has the stomach flu how long are they contagouse for????

haha I think I spelled contagouse wrong

2007-03-15 09:02:01 · 3 answers · asked by jess 1

i need a really good one for looking up medical probem......like the one they have a commerical for on TV...please and thank you

2007-03-15 08:32:30 · 2 answers · asked by K-LA 3

I had 6 of my coworkers look around and feel the right testicle when I was in the hospital for a week. These nuses took care of me during their shifts. I just have a funny feelng when talking with these workers.

2007-03-15 07:51:47 · 3 answers · asked by WildReady 1

I know i dont know everything there is to know about HIV/AIDS but my mom is a HIV prevention cordanator/ councoler so i know a lot of stuff but people on here are saying this and that and saying they know everything and no one else does well there just plain ignorant....GET SOME EDUCATION people ( not trying to mean or anything but its making me mad saying people need to know about this to stop spreding it but it dont help when ur giving out the wrong info)

2007-03-15 05:21:48 · 10 answers · asked by ashley G 1

What little and often forgotten things can be done (cleaned) in the home to limit the spread of unwanted organisms? For example, cleaning doorknobs - a commonly touched object in every household.

2007-03-15 04:39:52 · 10 answers · asked by coulterphil 1

2007-03-15 04:02:36 · 3 answers · asked by ascloud@sbcglobal.net 3

2007-03-15 04:01:03 · 4 answers · asked by carol m 1

2007-03-15 03:28:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

My daughter is sick. It started with fever on sat. and mon i took her to the doctor he said she had a ear infection and maybe some sinuse infection. All the simptomes where nasua vomiting and fever. well he gave her some antibiotics and some decongestante well yesterday (wed) she still had low grade fever and some nasua so i took her back well she being 15 did not want to go and said she felt better so he sent her home and told her to go back to school today. Well I sent her and she had to come home sick with low grade fever and nasua and she has been very tired so the Question is how long do i wait for her to get better bfore i take her back to the doctor or to a diffrent one?

2007-03-15 03:18:39 · 12 answers · asked by tstnre 2

2007-03-15 03:01:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-15 03:00:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-15 03:00:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-15 02:59:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of my close friends was diagonised HbsAg positive about five years ago, then he was advised to go for HBV DNA test which came as negative and his LFT is always normal, we have searched the vast ocean of internet to interpret the situation but failed to comprehend any thing from it. Can any one on this forum enlighten us to save him in case he is in trouble or to give him a new lease of life, if he is already safe from dangers of getting killed the killing HB.

2007-03-15 02:51:35 · 3 answers · asked by yaivshoo 2

2007-03-15 01:56:38 · 10 answers · asked by britbabe 2

2007-03-15 01:47:19 · 6 answers · asked by jessilyn w 1

I'm pretty sure I have pinkeye because my eye is all red. How do you treat it and how long does it take to go away?

2007-03-15 01:40:48 · 8 answers · asked by Tina 2

I have recently been tested negative for HIV and Hepatitis. Im not on any medications and my other bloodwork was fine also. Neck and chest Xrays fine too. I also have nausea and loss of appetite.

2007-03-15 01:35:34 · 3 answers · asked by john j 1

Over several years, I've heard that there is a belief amongst uneducated South Africans with HIV that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS, and hence there has been a virtual epidemic of child rape, and subsequent HIV infection. Is this proven, and if so, in how many documented cases; or is it simply an urban myth?

2007-03-15 00:30:42 · 9 answers · asked by EvilEdd 4

2007-03-14 23:27:15 · 2 answers · asked by victor98_2001 4

2007-03-14 22:45:31 · 17 answers · asked by saryadoc 2

is there a side effect if you will not continue the vaccine? i already have 3 shots of anti rabies vaccine.

2007-03-14 22:39:10 · 1 answers · asked by maybelle 1