Wellness

[Mindy D]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that consumers and health care providers immediately stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears as it investigates a "multistate cluster" of infections that testing has linked to the eye drops. At least one death has been associated with the infections.

Infections have been found in 50 patients in 11 states, the CDC said, adding that most of them had used artificial tears and that the mostly commonly used brand was Ezricare.

Results in some patients included "permanent vision loss resulting from ocular infection, hospitalization and [the] death of one patient with bloodstream infection," the CDC said, noting that the bacterial infections are often resistant to antibiotics."

ABOVE is quoted from CBS News Money Watch, 2/23 online

The link above is the statement from CDC. No information is posted on the CDC website yet except for the page here. The bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,  is RESISTANT TO MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTICS. 

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BELOW is Quoted from the CDC's page:

"use of EzriCare Artificial Tears.
From May 17, 2022, to January 19, 2023, CDC, in partnership with state and local health departments, identified 56 isolates from 50 case patients from 11 states (CA, CO, CT, FL, NJ, NM, NY, NV, TX, UT, WA) with VIM‐GES‐CRPA; 38 cases are part of 4 facility clusters. Dates of specimen collection are from May to December 2022. Isolates have been identified from clinical cultures of cornea (10), sputum or bronchial wash (11), urine (6), other nonsterile sources (4), and blood (2), and from rectal swabs (23) collected for surveillance. These specimens were collected in both outpatient and inpatient healthcare settings. Patient outcomes include permanent vision loss resulting from ocular infection, hospitalization, and death of one patient with bloodstream infection.
In addition to demonstrating carbapenem resistance, isolates in this cluster are resistant to ceftazidime and cefepime; the subset of isolates that underwent antimicrobial susceptibility testing for ceftazidime‐ avibactam and ceftolozane‐tazobactam were also resistant to these agents"

UPDATED 2/3 The FDA now has a recall page up for this product based on the CDC's recommendation. Here's the page.https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/global-pharma-healthcare-issues-...

[on the bay]

Thank you @Mindy D!

How awful!

[Q4u]

Thank you very much!!