how are we fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and what will we do when our antibiotics will no longer have effect?
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My son has been living this nightmare for almost three years.
He has a pseudomonas living in his leg that has lymphedema. The pseudomonas gets angry and my son gets severe sepsis. He has had it 15 times in the space of a year and a half. It is technically antibiotic resistant but each time they try with the strongest antibiotics for the hospital stay then I treat him with IV meds every 8 hours at home for a month.
We work with some of the top infectious disease doctors in the country and after this many episodes we’ve all agreed that there is no next step or answer. You maintain as long as you can but the bug will eventually outsmart the medicine and/or the medicine will become more than the human body can take. In the meantime besides antibiotics the skin treatments are medicated soap and bleach baths every day. I have to be honest. I would rather that the doctors be as honest with me as they are and tell me that they just don’t know rather than make things up to make me feel better.
The antibiotics are available but people also have to take the rest of the routine seriously to stave off the infection. Clean living area, bleach and lots and lots of hard work. Doctors can only do so much.
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