C-Diff? - Page 3

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@SaRina wrote:
@Vivian Florimond, most C.diff. infections occur in health care facilities (termed nocosomial infections) such as hospitals, rehab facilities, nursing homes, because of poor health care practices, and inadequate personal hygiene. The bacteria can be found on thermometers, stethoscopes, medical equipment, on linens, bed rails, everything. C.diff. spores can live on surfaces for months and so they are easy to ingest if you touch an infected surface.

Whenever you see a healthcare professional, if you do not see them putting on gloves in front of you before they come into contact with you, you need to ask them to wash their hands. Doctors, nurses, technicians are rushed and can be lazy when it comes to patient-to-patient hygiene. We need to be vigilant.

My husband was recently in the hospital.

One afternoon as I was sitting there with him, I glanced out the door and saw one of the nurses or techs go into the room across the hall with the blood glucose meter. She grabbed a pair of gloves, put the meter on the patients table, put the gloves on - grabbed the pee container, dumped it, put it back on his table and picked up the meter - never changed the gloves...