When Do YOU Use Hand Sanitizer?

When do you pull out your sanitizer?
When you:

Touch a door handle
Press the elevator button
Put your hand on the escalator rail
All of the above?

You might think of doing just that after learning about MRSA and where it lives.  MRSA is
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  It is an infection that can lead to other harmful infections such as [...]

How Clean Is Your Hospital?

How clean is your hospital?
Did you know that hospital acquired infection rates are on the rise?

Discovering Viraguard

Summer is almost over and the school bell is about to ring.  The changes we are on the cusp of experiencing usually signifies the onset of a flu epidemic. 
I would like to help disseminate information about how to stay healthy this cold and flu season.  Previously I have touched on the products Veridien offers and [...]

Schools and The Super Bug – MRSA

Kids all over the country are preparing to get back to school but there is a new concern when returning to school.  MRSA (a dangerous form of staph infection) is on the rise.  This super bug is resistent to most antibiotics and can cause major disfigurement including loss of limbs.

How do we protect our children [...]

MRSA Dangers

Do you have any idea as to how dangerous MRSA can be???
Check out this link… http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6285914
DOWNEY (KABC) — A high school wrestler died from complications of a drug-resistant staph infection and a teammate was being treated for the illness.
Just that statement alone begs us to ask…How clean is your:

Gym
Public restroom
The grocery store shopping cart??????  How [...]

Super Bug Tips

The Viraguard® line of products are all derived from a patented formula that features the optimum concentration of alcohol of any competing line of products on the market.  The patented formulation enables us to achieve high efficacy and low toxicity, all in a product line that uses the same formula for both our EPA registered hard [...]

How Sterile is Your Favorite Piercing or Tattoo Parlor?

MRSA can be found everywhere!  Take a look at how a Kansas City teenager contracted MRSA by trying to pierce his lip with a needle.  He ended up with a staph infection which almost ended his life. 
Zeke Wheeler of Blue Springs is recovering at Children’s Mercy Hospital after several surgeries on his knees and hips [...]

FluMRSA Pandemic

fluMRSA – Pandemic?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is fear that a deadly combination of the flu and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is to blame for the deaths of many American children and could lead to a pandemic.
Reports state that out of the 74 children who died in the U.S. in 2006 [...]

What is MRSA and Why is it SOOO Scary?

What is MRSA?
MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus which is a medical term used to describe a type of bacteria that is difficult to treat in humans – sometimes called a “Super Bug”.
How is it transmitted?
MRSA is especially troublesome in hospital associated infections. In hospitals, patients with open wounds, invasive devices, and weakened immune systems [...]