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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 29 5:15pm | Replies (9350)Comment receiving replies
Please bare with me ( and my typing) allow me to be more candide. Bacteria are always evolving 20 maybe 30 years ago this would be called TB period. I am looking to set president. Are there no studies that follow health care workers or number them or something that for fact state there is a higher incidence of this infection in this occupation? Seriously narrow it down who has the highest infection rate besides.. HIV or other with comorbidities. If it is the health care worker that doesn't smoke isnt immune comprimised etc then why? For me the answer is simple play at the beach and you will come home with sand in your hai,r pants and shoes ect. play else where and chances of getting of coming home contaminated with sand .. very low. Hell I may have just came up with my argument analogy
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@cmcclure , Hello. I have been keeping track of infected members occupations. It is roughly 85% were nurses or in the healthcare field. Second to that are teachers. I see two elemenys those two have in common. They are: both get exposed to many people with illness and germs, the other is that commercial cleaners are used creating stronger bugs. In some cases, super bugs. But, mainly, I think repeated exposure and immune systems put into overload. These are ONLY my thoughts, not fact.
You young lady have my attention..
I think exposure to many in my husband's Reserve Center played havoc with me and others who has Belly's Palsy.
That is very interesting. I wonder if there has been a controlled study regarding occupations?
I was a RN on a Pulmonary floor at a hospital. I cared for many vented patients. I became ill May 31,2016. It wasn't until July 31,2016 (after taking numerous antibiotics that had no effect at all on my illness) that I was diagnosed with Stenotrophomonas maltrophilia. I was treated with IV antibiotics for that organism and further tests resulted in a diagnosis of bronchiectasis and MAC. I had to take early retirement because of this illness. I have not treated the MAC, but I am considering it as I am frequently ill.
@jenblalock I have not heard of any controlled studies on that, but I am collecting data and am going to suggest it to NTM.org and possibly the CDC.
@sdwiggs Hi there. I will add you to the list. I too had to leave the work force in 2005 due to mac and frequent illness. I was 48 yrs old.
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You are right - and yes we have talked on this forum about incidence of MAC among people in certain professions. I think someone was gathering that data. Getting data for this would be great. But MAC is everywhere. The majority of people have the bacteria because it is everywhere. The difference is when you become infected with it. I spoke about this before I think. You can swab your arm and a friend’s arm and my arm and we will all have many bacteria including staph. But we are not infected with staph. My adopted son on the other hand gets staph infections frequently. MAC is like that. I am infected with it, and it has made me very sick. My fellow teacher friends may have it but aren’t infected with it. I understand what you are saying about bacteria because MAC and TB are both mycobacteria. But TB is proven to be contagious person to person and MAC isn’t. I’d settle for a decent, not so toxic, cure. At least TB has that!