how can hospitals have poor hygiene and what is the superbug?

Question

on the news they talk about the superbug and staph infections caused by filthy hospitals. i dont go into hospitals everday but each time i have gone into one for any reason i have gotten the impression that its the cleanest place on earth. i always saw shiny floors and clean looking clean smelling restrooms. theres always a guy with a bucket of strong smelling soap water mopping a floor that looks like its already clean. where are these dirty hospitals?

Answer 1

The problem isn't with filthy hospitals. As a matter of fact, it's a Darwinian world, so killing off germs is why we have superbugs to begin with. MRSA is with us to stay, and though it may be scary, simple handwashing is greatly effective. The problem is that it's easy to forget to wash your hands when you're really busy, and medicine has been under tremendous pressure to be "efficient" and "cost-conscious" for decades, and where both of those are laudable goals, they don't take into account that medicine is a very personal, one-on-one experience at its core. If you could wave a magic wand and double the number of nurses (and perhaps doctors, too), and pay for them, infection rates would doubtless drop precipitously. Also, if people were less afraid of infections, they'd use fewer antibiotics, and when they were needed they'd work better. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world, so we'll just have to make do with the one we have.

Answer 2

Hospital definitely look clean, but think about this: why do people go to hospitals in the first place? Think of all the sick people and how they're all kept in ONE building. Sure, rooms and everything are getting cleaned, but you can't clean ALL the germs and bacteria from EVERY sick person.

Put into the fact that the medicine given to patients may cover some of these bacteria that make people sick but not all. The bacteria that survive then develop mechanisms that resist the very medicine that is supposed to kill them. The bacteria get transferred from patient to patient by other health workers who may not properly wash their hands after each patient. Then you get superbugs!

Answer 3

The "dirt" that makes you sick is invisible.

Hospitals are critically understaffed and full of sick people. If cleaning crews aren't using the right disinfectant then germs and viruses don't die. And they'd have to have someone cleaning 24-7 to keep in perfectly clean.

The downside is superbugs. Superbugs are what happens when a bacteria or a virus reproduces with a resistance to disinfectants.

Answer 4

hospitals are really the environment for infections and bacteria even though the temperature is low and it's being cleaned everyday. The superbug is a bacteria that is resistant to most anti biotics.

Answer 5

superbug is noscomial infection. its an infection caught in the hospital due to lack of hand washing between patients. also the one place no one thinks to clean and is highly contaminated is the nurse call button in patients rooms. housekeeping should sanitize it at all times.

Answer 6

Keep in mind that in a hospital anything below your knee is contaminated, wash your hands well and frequently, and never touch your face! Some staph bacteria may be drug resistant is not able to hold up well to disinfectant, so in short stay clean and stay well!

Answer 7

don't believe everything as reported by the media....germs are everywhere.... in hospitals, on grocery carts, on stairway banisters, on library books, and normally live on everyones skin..... they need a way to enter your body, so like mom always said....wash your hands before you eat and keep your fingers out of your eyes, nose and mouth!!!