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MRSA (methycillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) - a big problem in our hospitals!

It might seem extraordinary to claim that MRSA infections can be prevented and treated successfully
using Tea Tree Oil – but this is definitely true.

The claim only seems extraordinary because all of the public debate about the dangers of MRSA has been conducted from the conventional perspective that MRSA is highly resistant to the synthetic antibiotics that are in use as licensed medicines. However, there are many naturally occurring compounds that are effective antibiotics against MRSA and other infectious micro-organisms, but which are not in general use in hospitals because they are not licensed medicines…
(For a fuller explanation of this crazy situation read: Tea Tree And The Law.)

And for those visitors who wish to learn about how to use Tea Tree against MRSA without reading yet more about politics, scroll down the page or CLICK HERE:
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You see, MRSA is not an extraordinary bug.  It is not particularly difficult to kill.  Difficulties only arise because of the way that the law makes it unlikely that safe and effective natural compounds will ever be approved for use by the medical profession as licensed medicines.

The laws about medicines were drawn up to protect us against “quack remedies” (and haven't even done that particularly well).  Now the law actually endangers us by restricting the medical profession to using a handful of synthetic antibiotics whilst ignoring the possibilities of safe and effective natural compounds!

So what is MRSA?  Well, our skins naturally carry many microscopic organisms that do us little harm.  One of these is the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.  It lives on our skin and causes no problems – until the skin is damaged.  Then it can get inside and cause an infection.  This is the same whether the skin damage is accidental, or whether it is caused deliberately by a surgeon…

When the first antibiotic, penicillin, was invented, it was extremely effective at treating a range of infections.  Including staph infections. However, bacteria evolve very quickly.  Each generation throws up lots of different variations.  And very quickly it was found that some staphylococci were surviving treatment with penicillin.  They were “resistant” to penicillin. And because bacteria evolve so quickly, they evolved resistance to new antibiotics faster than we could design new ones.

A few years ago, the medical profession reached a stage where they had one last new antibiotic called “methycillin”, and they dreaded the day that Staphylococcus aureus became resistant to that and left them powerless to treat staph infections.  Now that day has come.  Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus is here, and it is commonly just called “MRSA”.  This situation isn't anybody's “fault”.  It is just a predictable consequence of the fact that bacteria evolve so quickly.  Whatever we use – synthetic or natural – the bugs will eventually find a way to become resistant to it.  However, that is no reason to ignore the natural remedies that are available to us.  Especially as the natural extracts like Tea Tree oil are actually complex mixtures of many different biologically active compounds and are therefore going to be much more difficult for bacteria to become resistant to… 

It certainly isn't any help that MRSA has become a matter for party politics.  The level of MRSA infection in hospitals has nothing to do with political parties.  It even has little to do with the cleanliness of hospitals as the politicians would have us believe when they are after our votes.  Of course, the rates of infection by MRSA (and any other bugs) are related to whether or not hospital staff are trained to maintain high standards of modern hygienic practice.  And of course it matters that hospital wards are clean.  But MRSA isn't some mysterious bug that hides in hospital wards waiting to jump out and infect patients and visitors.  It is something that is taken into hospitals by the patients and visitors!  Yes, staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that lives on the skin of everyone.  And methycillin resistant staphylococcus aureus lives on the skin of lots of healthy people who are getting on with living their lives in the community and who have no intention of going into hospital… 

MRSA only becomes a problem when people are injured and their skin is broken to allow infection to get a hold internally.  So lots of us do literally act as carriers – having the bug living on our skin without us suffering any ill effects.  It only causes a problem when we have a skin lesion and the infection has a chance to get a hold.  OR, when we visit a hospital and pass it on to other folks who are due for an operation…  So, forget the rubbish about hospitals being reservoirs of MRSA that are going to leap out and pounce on us innocent visitors and infect us – it is just as likely that clean hospital wards are going to be contaminated by us healthy folks going in to visit…  We are all the carriers.

Forget the propaganda about how it is poor standards of hospital hygiene that are to blame – it is actually our success at controlling infections with modern antibiotics that have caused the problem. Forget the mud-slinging between political parties claiming that the rates of infection can be controlled with their policies on taxation and spending.  The existence of MRSA is an inevitable consequence of us inventing and using antibiotics.  We were grateful for 50 years to the biochemists who discovered the antibiotics, the pharmaceutical companies who funded the research and manufactured the drugs, and to the doctors who prescribed them.  Don't flatter the politicians now by joining them in the blame-game that says it is all some-one else's fault.  The problem now is the politicians and their inability to realise that they need to change the law…