US woman dies from infection resistant to all know bacteria

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Scary stuff.
Anyone in the know around to comment on this?
She was in India when she acquired the infection, which was after she'd cut her leg. She'd already had the infection for 2 years.
If it wasn't adequately treated to start with could this have been a contributing factor?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/13/us-woman-killed-superbug-resistant-every-available-antibiotic/

infections resistant to all antibiotics have been around for decades.

I've had staphylococcus aureus infections in my ears since the summer.

I just can't get rid of it. Three courses of antibiotics, ear drops x 2.

Was particularly uncomfortable when the GP jumped away after examining my ears, saying he'd never seen anything like that before. 😳

Test showed a pretty virulent & aggressive infection.

Are there natural ways to beat this bacteria?

I'm struggling to hear but trying to hide it and the tinnitus is driving me into a weeping despair.

The other night I nearly poured a bottle of TCP in my ear after a week of pour sleep and pain.

rose IIRC antibiotics are over the counter in India. Was reading about it fairly recently.

There are big advances made in phage therapy. It's been around for ages, mainly researched in the former Soviet Union but it's taken a lot more seriously now. There are hospitals in Georgia (and possibly elsewhere as well) who offer it. The problem with it is that you need to find a phage that works on the infectious strain that is causing the problem. So it will be more useful for people with a persistent infection, rather than going to the GP and getting a prescription and picking it up in a pharmacy straight away.
If I were in charge of Health Services I would grab every resistant bacterial (or yeast/fungi) strain that kills patients and screen every phage tucked away in a collection for its ability to kill that pathogen.

Staphylococcus aureus lives naturally on the skin, ineedmorelemonpledge, and it doesn't usually cause a problem. Sometimes it can be harmful, e.g. if it gets in a cut, but If you swabbed healthy ears you would find Staph aureus. Are you sure that the symptoms aren't due to something else? Can you request a second opinion?

I'm on my third opinion Hopefully 😣

I've had a sample swab taken 3 times by two GPs and hospital.

The discharge is white/green and it smells awful. It's definitely a Staph infection.

Just feels like I'll never shift it.

Sorry to hear that ineedmorelemonpledge, I hope you get some resolution soon

Somebody no one treating her caught it which is a pretty sign it's not very infectious.

*Somehow not somebody....

rosehippy: "I'm sure they hand out antibiotics like candies in India."

Maybe (though do you have a source?) The real problem, though, is the quantity of antibiotics given routinely to animals that aren't ill. That's where antibiotic resistance is coming from, and until we tackle that, then we're not going to be able to stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Has anyone here heard of using high doses of vitamin c to cure pretty much anything? m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZYZXHtq-VU

Hope if that bacteria normally lives happily on your skin, then presumably it has gone crazy because whatever would normally keep it in check is out of balance.

What is this "Phage" theory some people have mentioned?