Addi passed away in 2019 at age 20 when her donated lungs failed, she said she did not want to be put back on the list because she had been given her gift. There are some lovely articles covering all her milestones and accomplishments during her "gifted" time. Her name is Addie Rerecich, she touched so many and certainly made the most of those lungs, and those lungs gave her 8 years.
Awe that's so sad but amazing she made it until she was 20. The way her mom sounded she wasn't sure if she would even make it five years. I was just thinking about Covid 19 and how it's impacted Addie. Sad to hear she passed what a sweet girl
I can not imagine what it would feel like to have your child suffering like this and feeling so helpless. I pray now she is no longer suffering she is in heaven giving thanks to God for the time she was with us. Thanks for sharing this info.
70 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are used in animal factory farming. This needs to be understood, it is a major cause of antibiotic resistance. This is another reason why we need to rethink food choices.
True, best thing would be to have your own crops. Between GMO in the crops, pestisites in/on the crops, anti-biotics in meat, and plastic and toxins in fish there is little to nothing left in terms of fresh produce. :/
Glad we outlawed it here in Canada. Some States don't do it either, it varies. If whoever they are selling to doesn't want that, then they will produce it without it. It's not a blanket thing like it used to be and nobody cared because they didn't know and they used them to fatten up livestock. But since this rise in antibiotic resistance, many have moved away from that practice.
Lost a 6 month old son in September of 1999 to Kleb. Haven’t heard it even mentioned since until this program. Never knew he had it until 3 months after autopsy when it was grown in a culture sample from his lungs. For those 3 months the we were being prepared for SIDS because there was no obvious signs of anything being the cause of death. At the time, my wife and I were told that about two infants per year die from Kleb in Arkansas and it was 100% fatal in infants. Woke up one morning and found him gone. Doctors said that his immune system went “haywire” and just shut his body down. To this day I have always wondered how in the hell he got that bacteria in his body. RIP Andrew Ronald Jay 3/24/99 to 9/24/99
@ Ron Jay… I’m very sorry for your Loss. Always Remember this though. You NEVER LOSE the ONE YOU LOVE…. AS LONG as YOU REMEMBER the ONE you’ve lost. =^..^=
Thx for sharing your story. I’m 72& recently got. 3 antibiotic reactions, at a hospital…after which my arrhythmia/AFib kicked in , so had to recover in the Cardio area until I could go home. Now have a List of 7 to show every doc…..
Addie had to go through ECMO and lung transplant and regularly took a lot of pills every day just to get another 8 years of life. So for all of us who are lucky enough to not have to go through this, let's appreciate how precious is our lungs, health and our lives.
Priceless Let's appreciate our lungs, each of its alveoli.. Let us sit still and breathe aware of the air coming in nourishing us... breathing is a wonderful thing
It's luck of the draw. We can pray and be thankful all day long and it isn't gonna make a difference when it comes down to illness. Contrary to what many very religious people would believe or have one belief it doesn't come down to praying it comes down to fate
We should be equally, if not more, concerned with, the use of antibiotics in the agricultural industry. About 80% of all antibiotics are used in agriculture, either in concentrated feeding operations (pigs, poultry, aquaculture) or on crops (citrus). This type of excessive use is allowing for resistance genes to become very widespread among bacteria in our air, water, and foods.
YES!! The animals r raised in such unhealthy unnatural crammed together situations that they r petri dishes for diseases. So they r given as prevention instead of changing practices back to more natural and healthy settings for the animals. I don't eat animal products anymore because it supports these horrible situations. And bacteria can be transferred from these loaded situations into our kitchens.
@@cosmicrust9715 well, natural medicine has it's stigma from religious superstition. Herbs are often a good supplement. But not a cure for complex illnesses. Pharmaceutical drugs are both good and bad. Bacteriophages seems like the promised super weapon.
I know 6 people out of 18 dying sounds really bad, and I don't want to downplay the tragedy, but we should feel pretty proud of the hospital and it's staff. They contained such a dangerous infection over a 6mo period, only had 18 infected out of possibly hundreds of patients, and saved 2/3rds of them from an aggressive, antibiotic resistant bacteria with a known high mortality rate. They really did a fantastic job.
Agreed!! They did an amazing job. I'm going back to school for a degree in the medical field and I'm so excited, I really admire nurses and doctors and everyone who works to help people.
Been there done that! I picked up MRSA in April 2017 from my dorm, had an abscess drained, went septic, hospitalized for a day, IV vancomycin, discharged the next day. Then in December 2017, I got pneumonia. Well, the MRSA that was hiding dormant in my body bloomed into a lovely necrotizing pneumonia. 13 days in the hospital, 4 in the ICU, 2 chest tubes, 1 PCA, 24 hr staggered azithromycin and Zithromax infusion, 3.5 liters of pleural effusion drained, they almost put me on a vent. Well, I fucking made it! It wasn’t easy but I’m here! I got MRSA two more times (once as an abscess on my head and once as bronchitis) until I was finally referred to an infectious disease doctor and went through a decon protocol. Haven’t had it since and hope to keep it that way!!!!!!!!!
Had MRSA as a kid but thankfully not nearly as bad as yours. They always warned us it could go dormant so we all were freaked out and overanalyzing every bump for awhile - been probably 7-10 years now though so hopefully it's gone!
As a long retired critical care nurse, it has been known for at least 25 years that we were barreling toward the day we would have no effective antibiotics. No companies wanted to bother in investing the time and money needed to bring new antibiotics to market.
Septis almost killed me. I was in ICU for a month. My body shut down and was on dialysis and a feeding tube. I was given two gallons of blood transfusion. I'm thankful I am still alive.
I was so involved in Addie’s story that I looked her up and discovered she had passed. In this documentary her mother said they had bought her some time and that is wonderful. That she had that additional eight years to live and love and spread joy. I am sure she used them wisely and basically they all had time to prepare for her departure and she became mature enough to decide her own fate. It could have been one of my babies(youngest now 42) . What strength she and her mother had and what a bond. I love you, Addie. Thank you, Addie’s mom, for sharing her story.
That is so tragic… I just cried the whole time… She was so young and innocent, I don't understand it… it is just unfair and not right… The system is so corrupt and broken that we can't do anything to make it better and prevent future tragedies like Addie's, it makes me just angry…
I pray her caretakers were able to fill those 8 years with as many different experiences as possible, in order to give her a lifetime of memories in her remaining time. May you R.I.P. 🧎♂️🙏🙇♂️
Poor Addi. This brings back memories. My beloved husband Jim survived cancer only to die of an untreatable bacterial infection he picked up in the the hospital. It attacked his internal organs and shut them down. He fought hard he was in the hospital for an entire year before succumbing. My heart goes out to Addis family and all families who have lost a loved one.
I had to comment on this. First I'm so sorry for your loss. 2nd that has to be horrible to go to hospital sick from whatever where they actually keep you to then get sicker from being there . Omg that's horrible. Most men u have to beat to get them to even go to the Dr office let alone get them to go to the hospital. I pray when I'm gone my son's pay attention to everything body related and to listen to what I've told them.
I worked in geriatric nursing…I had a CNA come to work one day with her armpit bleeding…I asked her what was wrong…she said she had a sore under her arm…I had seen MRSA before…I put on gloves and protective gear and looked at it in the restroom…I immediately recognised it!!! I told her to go clock out and go to the er for treatment…It’s very contagious and they missed at least a week of work so they got to where they were working and trying to hide it…I hated to but I had to take all my CNA’S in the med room and check them for sores…I sent many home crying because they couldn’t afford to miss work but they didn’t realise how SERIOUS it was!! I caught it eventually myself!!!😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. This is what argues for ALL medical personnel, including the lowest-paid, to have full health insurance with no copays and paid sick leave. I would not want to have someone caring for me that was deliberately hiding an illness simply because they couldn't afford to take time off work!
As an acute care nurse of 27 years, I have watched resistant bacteria progress to where we are today. And this is a multilevel issue-pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, insurance companies and the government. It is sad and ugly.
And parents had for years demanded antibiotics with viral infections 'because it made the kids get better', even though antibiotics do nothing for viruses of course. Pinkeye? Probably a virus but it MIGHT be a bacteria; antibiotics! Gum disease from not flossing? Antibiotics! And surface-antibiotics like Tricoslan or whatever. Tricolsan? Whatever. The one that was in Dial and all the antibiotic soaps of the 90s and oughts. Everything that made you feel bad? Insist just a bit and you got antibiotics too, because the HMO's back then wanted fastfastfast and the generic antibiotics were fast and cheap and 'harmless'! Well...I hope we all enjoyed that 'low cost' fix to our insurance woes. I know my mom was guilty of that too any time she was paranoid about how bad I felt, even for stomach flus and everything else that worried her enough. I mean, maybe one of those things she worried about may HAVE killed me if she hadn't insisted...but we were all part of this cause. Doctors do it because we insist, because the insurers lean on docs to reduce billable hours, because lobbyists want to let Big Pharma keep making its record profits, and because we LET the lobbyists remain legal to DO that stuff. It's all us. Everything else is because of us, or FOR us. The government doesn't put antibiotics in the water. And chlorine is not the same, of course! Chlorine kills everything; "equal-opportunity death" is hard to grow resistant to. Big Pharma doesn't make us take the antibiotics. The doctor can't force us to treat infections. Hospitals can't either. But we opt to live with VERY-SUPER-MINIMUM, and sure I'll take anything that might help! *I* might die from this viral infection, gimme antibiotics to save my life! I insist! Screw my kids, my neighbors, my family's future...POUR IT ON ME. All us. All of it. Welcome to the future we not only deserve, but that we paid to guarantee. We can still fix this...but remember not to get 'antibiotics on the side' for things that you don't need it for. And buy less 'factory farm' food, because that level of disgusting jam-packing necessitates ongoing antibiotics as a corporate-level thing. Not curative dosing in response to an illness, but preventive, because 100 cows per square meter leads to (surprise) unhealthy cows and lots of poop all over each other. But hey, cheap burgers! Woo! \o/ We're getting EXACTLY what we've been paying for.
I was one of the first cases of aggressive MRSA. They came into my room in hazmat suits and quarantined my home. That was back in 2003. My first severe and seemingly unprovoked infection happened in my lip in 1992.. it swole up and was infected. Then I had gland infections in my sweat glands. I sat on a ring at school. Then it infected my finger. I had persistent infections until I was tested in 2003 when aggressive MRSA was diagnosed. I had infections for 18 years before seeing Dr. Robert Thomas in Michigan. I defeted it with his help. I had 400 excisions, pilonidal disease, pneumonia, marcupialization and removal of my sweat glands in several places. I contracted a complex resistant bladder infection and had to take Macrobid and 2 others. It was all pretty awful. I have been past it for many years and I still have paranoia and nightmares.
I had MRSA in my knee around that same time, through surgery and also intravenous antibiotics treatment they were able to get it under control and then cured over a period of 3 months. The doctors had told me that the antibiotics needed for treating MRSA were the same strength as you would find in Chemotherapy treatments. I remember that the veins where the antibiotics were administered felt like hard plastic tubing under the skin after they pulled the needle from my arm.
Wow...just wow! Incredible journey. Thank you for sharing...I just could not imagine. How did you trace it to something you sat on when the symptoms manifested in your lip...especially if you probably did not think much of sitting on that ring at the time? Just curious. Please, stay well!
I work in an ICU and there are still so many people who do not wear PPE correctly if at all because “they aren’t worried about it” or nurses who don’t reinforce wearing PPE to visitors. Ugh it drives me so crazy. Protect yourself and others people. It’s not hard.
I have a question.. why don’t we treat these deadly bacteria with bacteria phages? (Idk if I spelled it correctly) but if its the only option why not introduce phages to the body?
I keep coming back here to remember Addi. My son at 6 months of age suffered a brain aneurysm. He continues to go to therapy and doctors' appointments weekly. He has a shunt and will be turning 3 years old soon. I am grateful for my extra time with him even though he could be taken from me at any moment. It's so hard not to think about that. I imagine Addi's mother thought about too.
As frightening as this is, it is amazing that most of us go through life so casually, experiencing scrapes and cuts, and exposing ourselves to potentially dangerous conditions, with no consequences. It is astounding that the millions of people living in horribly unsanitary environments such as the slums in India, are not dropping like flies. As a child I swam or waded through stagnant water ponds, and suffered cuts from barbed wire fences, yet only until reaching 60 did the odds finally catch up, when I caught a staph infection from exposure to sewer water from a backed-up shower drain. I had the typical puss filled boils on the skin, and eventually developed cellulitis in 1 leg. 3 injections and 5 weeks of several oral antibiotics appears to have knocked it out. It was a big wake-up, and I am much more conscientious about treating minor cuts and scrapes, disinfect my hands while out in public, and quit hand-shake greetings. Reports like this program make me deathly afraid of hospitals.
@@BritishMoralHQ ...interesting. I know that I used to have sinus infections yearsa ago until I started taking odor-free garlic capsules regularly... because I learned that garlic is a natural antibiotic, etc.
After 30-ish years of age every damage will be permanent so no more playing around. There won't be an aging population in a slum because they won't survive it. In third world countries the median (majority) age is around 30year old.
I had a MRSA/MSSA/Diphtheria infection in my thoracic spine (T9-T12). It started as a pain in my back. Then one day a week later I felt horrible, and got up from my desk (I was at home), walked 2 feet, and my legs gave out from under me. I couldn't breathe. My chest hurt, I was confused, and I had a fever of 104. I got to the hospital and was diagnosed with Sepsis. An hour later I was in the ICU. The infectious disease doctor asked me if I had any cuts on my body, and I said, "yeah, I have a small cut on my toe". A month later I was facing the possibility of having my right leg amputated... I had a heart attack from the bacteria. Ultimately I lost my right big toe, and parts of a couple others. My thoracic spine and some ribs were destroyed, and left me partially paralyzed. I had been on 14 different antibiotics for over 5 years. I was hospitalized most of that time, often in the ICU. The infection spread to my mouth, and I have had around 30 oral surgeries to fix it. At one point my infectious disease doctor came into my room and gave me the bad news: He'd never seen anyone with disease as severe as mine survive for any length of time; all have died within 5 years. It's been 7 years so far, and I can walk again, though with a limp (I cannot feel my right leg/foot), and the core of my body is still paralyzed. My mouth looks normal again. I have some cognitive problems from the septic shock (I had it 4 times), so I used to be a fast talker/thinker, and now I'm quite slow and have a hard time finding the right words in a conversation, and have problems with my memory. My team of doctors said I most likely won't live a lot longer, as they expect the bacteria to come back, and this time they're probably be resistant to everything.
I am an internal medicine doctor myself and tbh no doctor can even give approximate timeline. As medicine is not maths, it’s more of an art… but one thing I must tell you from my clinical experience of 13 years; the longer you are asymptomatic, better the chances you got…
And your word finding difficulty is Broca’s aphasia… if you are able to speak the right word (doesn’t matter the time delay) , it means your brain connections are intact, over time it’s bound to improve… and above all my best wishes and prayer to you… get well soon
I'm a microbiologist about to begin my research on alternative methods to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections..... Wish me luck y'all. Thoughts and prayers with everyone who got affected by such bacteria. I always get annoyed when doctors prescribe antibiotics even in the most benign cases of infections. That's a recipe for disaster in the long run. We are nearing the time when antibiotics will become completely useless. That's terrifying.
It's being tested for direct drug delivery, however bacteriophages can often induce an immune response, so they are likely to be killed before they reach the target site@@trashcamprod
If Addi's Mom ever reads this I just wanted to say you are the most wonderful mother, woman and communicator. I am so sorry for your loss, heaven has a new and radiant angel.
My Daughter went to have an operation and ended up with a bacterial infection that made her worse then before she had the operation... The antibiotics they gave her were over a thousand dollars...She got them and it finally got better, but she suffered for months... I'm just thankful to God she's still here today...
@@isimonsez you obviously dont have any Faith in God Even believe He exist But He does The Hand of God is overwhelming Praise Him and Him only God work in mysterious ways
it's irrelevant in this context, it's about artificially enhanced bacteria that are a by-product of medical procedures. it has nothing to do with natural biology, bacteria, and how our body works.
@@charon7320 it has everything to do with those things you just listed. “Medical procedures” as you say, don’t “artificially” create the bacteria. They have evolved this resistance due to us killing them off. It is the basic process of evolution - just being influenced by antibiotics. Think about a mouse that is born faster and can escape predators better than other mice - those mice will die but the fast one lives and has offspring that carry it’s speedy gene. Then the trait gets passed down and is selected for because those faster mice survive more often. It’s the same with the bacteria - they naturally change genetically over time, so this resistance gene popped up on its own - it’s the fact that we are able to wipe out the non-resistant bacteria that allows the resistant ones to proliferate and persist, rather than just being a one-off. Point being, it is exactly having to do with natural biology and bacteria.
I will never forget the substitute teacher's words to our science class before we watched a movie "if you go into a hospital, make sure you ask how well they prevent Mrsa" I don't know what led him to tell us this advice to a group of high schoolers, but I still think about it to this day 😢 sad to all those who died and are still fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria
I had a double mastectomy with reconstruction and acquired a surgical site infection due to the plastic surgeon's horrific job of closing me up. Ten days after the surgery, I went to the ER because my wounds were hot, purlent, and red. The Dr's and nurses were horrified at the hack job, took a sample for the lab, cleaned, packed, and debrided the wounds and rebandaged me properly. They put in a hep-port and started me on sulpha-meth, but when the lab results came back as MRSA w/ necrotizing fasciitis, I was bumped up to vanco. After they were able to get the necrotizing fasciitis under control, they switched me back to sulpha meth for SEVEN MONTHS as the wounds granulated new skin. I was then taken off of the abx, and then MRSA cysts began growing all over my body. That was SIX years ago, and I still live with an active MRSA infection. So, take it from me, MRSA is no laughing matter.
There was a time that I was doing remodel work in a hospital. One I morning woke with 106 temperature. I went to the emergency room immediately and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. It was 6 days before they found out that I contracted legionnaires disease. Hospitals are dangerous places! Don't ever take them for granted
Legionnaires can occur anywhere where the bacteria can spread through mist: such as from air-conditioning units for large buildings, shower heads, toilets, etc. It's not just at hospitals - my local mall had an outbreak that killed a few elderly shoppers.
6 days????? man, i would sue the shit out of that hospital. Legionnaires is absolutely no joke, and you're extremely lucky to be alive if you went 6 days without anitibotics. That is incompetence at the highest level
My mom had a surgery to fix her back, while in the hospital.she developed MRSA. They took out all the hardware, she had to heal from the inside out and had to wear a pump that pumped medication directly into her heart for months. It took her over a year to heal and it nearly killed her. She was never the same after.
I'm 62 years old I am extremely compassionate person and I have never in my life been this upset watching with this little girl went through it has taken me 10 minutes to voice text what I just said through tears
well the solution is simple but they still won't do it genetic engineered enhancements for peoples immune systems since they have no other option beef up a persons disease resistance
@@raven4k998 That is nowhere near simple. If you 'beef up' a persons immune system too much it begins to attack the person itself, causing Sepsis, disabling conditions and more. Believe me, I should know. Its almost killed me a few times. Look up 'autoimmune disorders'. That's what happens when a persons immune system is OVERACTIVE. Its a very delicate balance.
I love the way they just let you Figure out what they really trying to say . Read between the Iines. And Frontline has All Kinds of deniability when the " conspiracy theorists" prove to be just be ON POINT . Bravo! Good Journalism
@@Freedomrose1 I dunno man. Think it’s just you. Once you put on that tin foil hat, you can find some bu!!sh!t in damn near ANYTHING. Hell, I bet you can see some serious sh!t playing out when you watch an episode of Sesame Street too, huh?
@@christinafidance340 it's time to wake up honey. this vaccine trial b******* May may help someone out may help certain people out but I am definitely not one that it benefits because I'm healthy I am white that's right I am white and I am strong. some because of their inability to absorb vitamin D and the way that it needs to be absorbed for whatever reason, obesity, Color of skin , elderly , youth, chronic illness, whatever the reason for the decrease in vitamin D, some are not as fortunate. Some may benefit with a vaccine. Im not sure. But the Risk out weighs the benifit in my case. And in several others to be vaccinated/rather than treating the virus. Mandate iAbsolutely not., helping you or me. It is only causing a reaction that equals to what they are look King to achieve. Money- And only the Rich have Power. And Add Bitcoin.. out of thier control. .... Little people like me and you - If they are smart! ---- Well We understand and see the shift in Wealth alread. Myself......I Am already holding more money than ever since Oct 2020.. And guess What!? Not for me....../My legacy-. . . my grand babies.......I will not sit and accept-free shit_for. freedom. Because I Am not LAZY . Don't get me wrong. I'm tired. But Nobody Rides for Free!
As a researcher who works in both microbiology and cancer, it is heart breaking every time one of our patients come to a point where treatment cannot be made anymore. To everyone who has not studied microbiology/immunology or worked in the medical field, please understand that we are trying our best in our respective research field. Each time a researcher works on a research, 1000s of hours spend in the lab, reading papers, and sharing information with countless other researchers to only contributes 1% to that field. It may not be now, or a 100 year later but eventually, we can come to a point where we can relieve symptoms and treat every disease. That is my wish as a research, to the countless hours in front of an incubator, microscope, and laptop, we will get there one day. Don't give up. :) Have hope.
The best field to research is bacteriophage, and potentially using CRISPR edits to make unique bacteriophage for an individual. In the early nineties I visited a lab at University College London where they were computer modeling potential antibiotics, and even then the problem was that there was almost nothing in the pipeline that wasn't massively toxic and dangerous to humans. It's a field that has been pretty much exhausted and that was thirty years ago. While I appreciate science likes to think it will find all the answers, sometimes the answer isn't found in chemistry but in biology. By using the natural predator of the bacteria in question. In Georgia in the former USSR bacteriophage is the standard treatment. You swallow a fly, and follow it with a spider in essence. In the same way a parasitic virus infects our cells, the right bacteriophage for your bacteria will do the same thing. No profit in it though, still interested?
It's rather shocking and depressing such a highly qualified person is ignoring the basic fact that the primary reason for widespread MRSA issues is the absurd abuse of feeding healthy pigs with Antibiotics! You should be aware of this deadly dangerous habit and spread information along with heavy criticism of the careless agricultural sector! In Europe every one is aware of this problematic and some countries, like the Netherlands are fighting MRSA efficiently.
@@OmmerSyssel There are multiple ways MRSA spread, not just from pigs. And you should treat researchers with more respect because they put 100% of effort into all the work that they do even if failure is inevitable. Many of us lock ourselves in a tiny room for months to work on a project that may only fail. Note; if you want to spread awareness, it should come from you spreading by word of mouth or internet now days because there is nothing greater then the power of voice.
Addis's story made me so emotional. I'm happy the doctors decided to go ahead with the lung transplant. 8 years of life is an incredible gift under such dire circumstances and she seems to have used hers well to live fully. Condolences to all her family and friends. These types of infections are so frightening.
bacteriophage only solve a specific bacteria infection, it is not as magical as taking antibiotic pills; one has to test and identify the infecting bacteria before getting a species of bacteriophage to cure it, so it seems to be something for intensive care or hospital settings not to general public in clinics or pharmacy.
@@carterpavloski9276 It depends. None is better than the other. Public sector can afford to think and plan for projects with longer term pay-off than the private sector which need to ensure quarterly profitability. Case in point, space exploration. There was NASA before SpaceX.
Best journalism on tv today. Thank PBS and frontline. May the world never stop supporting the Endowment for the Arts and the Endowment for the humanities
I agree. I've introduced my partner to it and she's from France. She'd never heard of it. Today? She can't miss a new episode. Great journalism for sure.
I watched a doc on this skin eating bacteria when I was in my teens. I didn't think it was prevalent in the environment...I met this older gentleman in my twenties, he had the exact same thing happen to him. Brushed against some rusted piece of metal, paid no attention to it. His leg, at the thigh, has a fist sized hole in it. Where they had to carve it out. While in the hospital, he contracted MRSA. Because they were already treating him for the skin bacteria he was too weak to treat. It got into his blood. Eventually, it didn't kill him, he recovered. However, every once in a while, he would have a wound that didn't heal. It was interesting to have known him, honestly if not a little awkward seeing his wounds. That is a reality that he showed me exists...
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems yeah it's no joke; some of these bugs can't be treated. But a never ending flesh eating bacteria oh man... I got pneumonia from inhaling some of my own vomit during a seizure; it quickly turned MRSA and got into my blood. All my organs failed but my heart didn't. I'm very fortunate to be alive.
My deepest condolences to Addi’s loved ones. My daughter died Dec 1st 2012. From sepsis of unknown etiology they knew it was a bacteria but they couldn’t tell what kind, she went into cardiac arrest on Nov 26, 2012 and it died with her. I’ll always wonder what happened to her. She was fine. She died 2 days later.
My condolences to you. Could you kindly elaborate on her case, specifically on pathology reports. Was her blood tested more thoroughly. Heart failure can happen by bacterial/viral infections. Was she hospitalized on her last days. I do a lot of case studies for medical journals and health institutions.. Thank you.
I give my sincerest gratitude to Addie, her mom, David, and all others involved in bringing to light information about these super bugs. Incredible sadness overcame me when at the very end of this upload, finding out that Addie had lost her battle and had passed. Rest in peace sweet pea. 😢🤗
I have a two year old son and stuff like this freaks me out and hate being a parent. You do all you can for them but there's so many parents that lose their children to horrible incidents that you have no control over.
Freaking out about something you have no control over. Will make you ruin his immune system and force him to not live his life or experience childhood. Once you have another kid youll realize you have become a parent nazi and youll completely neglect the second child. It will make him think you hate him.
I had fell down and get cuts for umpteen times. I nearly drowned in a swimming pool at age 10 when my muscles cramped. I had swam in river water. I had drank water from the river. I was pierced with a pencil by a bully at school. I had fell on my back on a flight of concrete stairs and I can feel my coccyx, skull and vertebrae were hit with a bang. I once fell into a drain deeper than my height when I was riding a bicycle. I had also rolled down a slope and almost hit on rocky surface. I wonder how after all that shit I am still alive now at age 31. Maybe I am just incredibly lucky.
This should be a wake-up call to all governments of the world - Antibiotic research needs public funds invested in it as a matter of priority! We also need serious legislative restrictions on the flagrant overuse of antibiotics currently.
Derick Mc, You're not suggesting that politicians interfere with doctors' practicing medicine, are you? Most of us trust physicians' opinions over lawmakers' any day.
@@pamelaporter4750 Yes unfortunately I am saying that Doctors must be stopped from giving out antibiotics for sniffles, colds, etc. They must be kept as a nuclear option only, or one day we won’t have any that work.
Regulation isn't going to do much. The issue lay within the towns in India that produce these antibiotics. The run off from these facilities goes into the environment and creates these super bugs. The other side of the coin is the weaponization of them as well. I agree with you that better utilization of current antibiotics are needed. But a political bill isn't going to stop the source issue.
Devastating to hear Addi passed away aged 20. What a beautiful soul she is! A Wonderful mother too? You're a warrior Mum. So young, so unfair. This young woman showed more courage and dignity than I've seen in a long time. Fly free Addi, your light still shines bright on this world.
My dad beat cancer just to die from MRSA months later, in the early 2000s, we've known about this bugs since forever, but we keep misusing antibiotics anyways, we keep injecting them into chickens and cows, we keep using a hammer to kill flies and we are starting to pay the price now.
@@bodombeastmode it’s not just the Republicans, it’s our entire elected government that swims in unlimited campaign contributions. They are all bribed but the republicans are just the most brazen because they will accept cash from anyone that will hand it to them. That’s why they have the balls to say that 98% of the scientific community is full of it when it comes to climate change and their okay with the government controlling medical decisions for a woman’s body but we better not ever pass any legislation to help stop another mass school shooting. They can sure be evil little dicks but unfortunately when it comes to money from the medical and pharmaceutical industry, both sides are all balls deep in it.
Please update this episode to reflect that Addie Rerecich passed away on December 2019. Her body rejected her lungs and she declined to have another double lung transplant. She died at home on December 30, 2019 surrounded by her family and friends. She was just 20 years old.
This is, unfortunately, pretty standard for lung transplants. Seems like, at least. I know someone who died after having it (they had CF, though). Very tragic.
My god what a horrible thing for that little girl and her mother to go through. I worked in a medical library in a midwest city hospital and I have never heard of some of the pathogens they are talking about. What a nightmare.
This is very interesting. My husband just died from this but his situation was different, the hospital didn't test his blood for the best antibiotics to treat my husband they ended up overdosing him on IV antibiotics till he went into kidney and liver failure. They tried to say it was from his infection but I got the doctor to admit he didn't test the blood for the antibiotics that were responding to the infection. They didn't allow him to shower for weeks in the hospital they asked to do a pick line and the more I get information learning the more I learn they literally didn't do anything to save him and these were things I didn't know trying to learn everything I could. My heart is so broken because the way the hospital treated him was cruel and inhumane, I cannot get over how the hospital mistreated him going against his wishes and intentionally causing harm to end his life after not doing the basic treatment for his condition in the first place it's devastating and cruel. I truly wish I let him die at home it's what he was trying to do in the first place but I was so scared to loose him I would of done anything to save his life but didn't realize how badly he'd be treated how much worse they could make things on him.
Incredibly sorry for your loss. You have been robbed. I'm sorry your husband and you have endured this level of negligence and incompetence. This is devastating. Please accept my deepest condolences. I hope you get to the truth you are seeking and it finally gives you some peace.
I am sorry for your loss. That's a terrible way to lose someone. I lost both my parents under similar circumstances. My husband died, but not due to any medical intervention. Personally, I steer clear of all things pharmacutical and all things medical. It's all just going south. You did everything you knew to do at the time, that is all any of us can do. Forgive yourself, and try to push forward. You must live on and be happy, he would have wanted that for you, right? Right. hugs
I went into septic shock from a kleb infection in my kidneys. I was fine one minute and passed out on the floor the next. The doctor who treated me saved my life. I recovered after months of IV antibiotics. I'm lucky to be alive. To this day, I have no idea how I contracted it.
That has been the case for hundreds of thousands years since humans existed. Only in the last 80 years it had been different, and only in the more affluent parts of the planet. But we also understand microorganisms evolve fast enough to survive every particular medication we use in the long run.
As a now retired Public Health RN & Educator, I'm numb learning of yet another tragedy of what happens after critical subjects are omitted from, and teacher salaries stagnated in American Public Schools' K-8 core curriculum: basic First Aid, basic anatomy & biology (+sex ed), and societal civics/govt. finance. The world has been paying the price exponentially since the Sixties.
true, very true. Proper hygiene, and cleaning one's cell phone! More fresh air more sunshine, more time outside. Have you heard of ozone therapy? It was used with great success in the 1930s with great success before antibiotics.
I can not imagine what you have had to watch your precious child go through! We had a child born with non adrenal glands. He is now 58 and has medical issues but he is still alive! Bless your heart! You are so amazing.
you'd think this pandemic would teach us something about what we can do if we throw ourselves into medical research as a global community and how vulnerable we are if we don't but I guess not
I had the same. A drug resistant UTI for 2 years. It is gone now but I had to figure it out and research myself because despite antibiotics it got worse and worse.
It’s not a good documentary when it doesn’t even mention that the vast majority of antibiotics use is in the animal agriculture. If you care about this issue, then the absolutely first thing to do is quit meat.
When my son was a baby, he got croup. It was terrifying to us new parents because it seemed like he couldn't breathe. I rushed him to the emergency room. The doctor told me it was a viral infection and put my son and me in a room that I think was some kind of steam room. After a while, my son was doing much better, so we went to talk to the emergency physician before being discharged. When I sat down, the doctor handed me a prescription for antibiotics. In confusion, I said "I thought you said this was a viral infection." He seemed a little surprised, then said, "well the prescription is just in case there's an underlying bacterial component." This sounded like hogwash, so I took the prescription to my son's pediatrician the next day and asked if I should fill it. He looked at it, crumpled it up and threw it in the trash, shaking his head. He said that a lot of doctors prescribe antibiotics even when they know they won't do any good, just because people insist on them. I guess the emergency room doc just assumed I'd be one of those people and had the prescription ready when I didn't even ask for it. Doctors really need to be more assertive in refusing medications to patients who don't need them, and patients need to educate themselves and stop demanding medications and treatments when they don't know what they're talking about.
Not true. A lot of viral infections turn bacterial. Nothing helps except antibiotics. If you don't get it fast enough you can really become very sick. The first doctor was right.
@@ashleyhavoc1940 You went overboard to say the pediatrician 'fibbed'. He/She simply provided one of SEVERAL VALID reasons why there is an over-prescription, and it didn't coincide with yours. Since you accused the pediatrician of lying, would it also be fair if I accused YOU of lying because I know of a third reason, one I've heard from people in the medical field?....Liability/lawsuits. Throw EVERYthing at a problem, just in case. That's safer than missing something. Even if nothing was missed and it has no utility, prescribing it gives litigation attorneys one less avenue on which to fabricate an accusatory narrative.
Usually they prescribe ab when you already have immune decificiency. I got ab for my Tonsillitis which was ok, but got a lof of side effects from it. Now i'm sick with some kind of infection ,(maybe kind of cold), and he prescribed the same ab! I mean, how can you prescribe ab (only killing BACTERIA) without knowing what i got? Most certainly i got a virus, i didnt take the ab but only a few ibuprofen. I hope this will do.
Last month I went from being 100% healthy to deathly ill in a blink of an eye. I went to church and felt fine, within 45 min of being home I started vomiting uncontrollably. I thought I had food poisoning. I went to the rest room and when I went to walk back to my room I had an incredible pain in my growing on my right leg. I thought "oh crap, I have a blood clot". About 15 min later my right leg from just below my knee to my foot started hurting. All night long I was in and out of delirium and by the next morning my leg looked like someone had taken a blow torch to it. It was so swelled, red and hot to the touch I felt like it was going to burst. My eldest son called an ambulance and when they got me to the hospital I had 104f fever and was delirious. I was diagnosed with MSSA, the nicer relative of MRSA. I had 5 days of IV antibiotics plus 10 more days of oral when the sent me home. My leg is almost back to normal, I am so thankful it wasn't as bad as these other bacteria. That was an extremely scary experience and I don't wish it on anyone.
IN 2008 I HAD FULL BLOWN MRSA ALL OVER MY BODY..CIPRO WAS THE ANTIBIOTIC OF CHOICE..TOOK LIKE 6 MONTHS TO HEAL..LUCKILY THE LARGE NASTY BOILS I SQUEEZED FULL OF PUSS DID NOT GO SEPSIS OR INTERNAL DAMAGE..IM FINE WITH THE SCARS I GOT..THE ONLY NOTICEABLE ONE IS BEHIND MY LEG A QUARTER SIZE..I HAVE THE 8 YR CURSE..EVERY 8 YEARS SINCE 1999..I LOSE MY JOB AND GET A HORRIBLE DISEASE..I TOLD MY MOM THIS A FEW TIMES..SHE GOES OMG..I SAID..WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999..2008..2015..AND 2023..THIS YEAR I LOST MY JOB AND GOT A LOVELY DISEASE WITH IT..IVE HAD SCABIES FOR LIKE 3.5 MONTHS..YEA LOVELY BUT I THINK IM GOOD NOW
We should push for changes in the law. Hospitals should be forced to report those outbreaks to the public. We have a right to know, so new patients can avoid those hospitals. And yes, they should have closed the hospital temporarily at least, until the outbreak was under control or at least until they knew where it was spreading.
Agree. My father contracted MRSA after bypass surgery and was in the hospital for 2+ months. Luckily, he survived but fast forward 4 years later another person in my family contracted MRSA in the same hospital.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 You walked away from a documentary about how no for-profit company wants to develop antibiotics anymore because they're not profitable, and the only reason research is still being done today being from government subsidies, with this opinion? I have a bridge to sell you.
I got a staph infection from a thorn. It spread up my leg but became strep on the outside. I spent 3 days in quarantine because no concoction of antibiotics would stop the spread and they were not 100% sure of what my infections were. I spent 17 days in the hospital and had two surgeries to remove the infected tissue. I was terrified because at one point they discussed removing part of my leg. My doc explained to me that antibiotics no longer work effectively. He had to use 4 antibiotics at once because 1 had no effect on the superbugs that have grown resistant to our antibiotics. This is absolutely terrifying! Thank you for sharing this documentary!
I refuse to believe that someone could have so little situational awareness that you could be hit by a train, and I don't believe the story of how he ended up in that situation and I'd bet he was doing something dumb that he was too ashamed to admit. That wasn't Japan where the train was going 240MPH, it was probably doing 60MPH absolutely max, or more likely 35-40MPH going by the poor condition of the rails that are likely in a slum area, you will hear that train coming for at least a minute and have PLENTY of time to avoid getting hit by it.
@@K31TH3R true, being distracted or impaired are so dangerous in this setting. Noise canceling headphones are great at times but dangerous in settings like these.
Abuse and overuse of Anti-biotics is a real problem. There is a great book by Stephanie Strathdee 'The Perfect Predator' that not only underscores this and how she used macrophages to save her husband when no antibiotics could help him.
Thanks for the book rec, too. I have read 2 others, concerning the overuse of antibiotics. One is The Yeast Connection, written by a medical doctor who first was baffled seeing so many children being brought in with ear infections, fully documented, good interesting read. The other one, I can't recall its exact title, the book is not here at my location, I think it is called The Superbug, The Fatal Menace of MRSA Written by a female investigative reporter, Maryn McKenna, who followed the WHO organization around for a length of time. Thoroughly researched book, also.
@Biology Discussions Not likely. Viruses spread much faster than bacteria and can infect much more people at once. They also have a much higher rate of mutation. It would take a longer span of time for even a drug resistant bacteria to kill as many people as Covid has.
With all the antibiotics blanket applied to almost everything in livestock we've basically squandered the gift of life saving medicine for cheap fried chicken and hamburgers.
We took our son to doctor a few years back. He had a wicked cough, croope and a temperature. He had a chest infection. They asked if we wanted antibiotics... asked... when we said only if he really needs them. The relief on thier face was obvious and evident. They are so used to parents kicking up a huge fuss if antibiotics arnt given they ask even when they're not completely necessary. He was just under a year old at the time. He got better fine without antibiotics.
That definitely made the problem way worse, can’t believe doctors would ask parents like they would know if it good or not and just give them out. Thankfully you guys were smart and realized he may not of needed them to recover.
@@nProneColor I think it was less to do with wether the parents would know or not and more to do with the abuse if they are not offered. I had a friend and if her kids even made a noise that sounded like a sneeze she rushed them to the doctor, she repeatedly told us stories of her kicking off because they wouldn't give her antibiotics for her kid... who had virus anyway, if it was sick at all so antibiotics are useless against a virus. I think they wouldn't of asked us but for the fact it was borderline. My little one was at the point where you could justify the use of antibiotics but not where they were definitely needed.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your daughter. I'm just glad you were able to have the time with her that you did. She's up in heaven healthy and smiling down on you. God bless.
Addi was SUCH a total sweetheart and a true blessing to every life she touched, and continues to even now. She's in such a better place now, just waiting to see all her loved ones again when it's their time to join her. Incredibly touching and informative documentary. Thank you Frontline, and much gratitude to Addi and her family for sharing their journey, pains, and triumphs.
It's terrifying to think that for most of human history this has been normal. Diseases, infections, viruses, etc. Humans have gone through a lot of real shit. We are living the best times in human history, and yet, things like these still occur.
@@cristiantalero96 The very fact that we humanity still managed to populate Earth despite so many horrors inflicted upon us, is in itself mind boggling.
This is so very interesting. I spent 2 months in the ICU due to an antibiotic resistant illness that was never identified. I went in to Toxic Shock. I shouldn’t even be here, but by the grace of some higher being it wasn’t my time and I’m still here 15 years ears later.
My grandfather and father (both long dead) always said, “Don’t go into a hospital. That’s where people die.” True on so many levels. You don’t want to go where a lot of sick people are congregated, because chances are high you’ll pick something up from them. Ever since the Covid pandemic started, I’ve been wearing a mask in public. The Japanese have done it for decades. I used to get at least two colds a year, but have had none since starting to wear a mask. Before wearing a mask, i got an upper respiratory infection every time i was on a plane. Now, i don’t have to suffer that way any more.
there is nothing in this world that will guarantee safety. you may increase the chance to be safe but by doing this things become redundant . masks have inherent risks as well. But it is your choice. there are reasons why i dont, well unless im spray painting =)
Masks don't have "inherent risks," @lostchild488. Unless you wear the same one day after day, if you change them out as needed, they're proven to not cause any of those so-called risks that people were worried about early in the pandemic. And they're not just for the other people in the room, @cursedwithsentience4017 because they do slow down the rate of infiltration by any background floating particulates. If someone is super infectious and you're near them long enough, sure, the mask won't do the trick. But if you're in a big crowd and you're exposed to 10 people's germs instead of 100 because you've got a layer of fabric between your nostrils and the world, you're 10 times less likely to lose the game.
A mask will protect you in a way but it will also prevent you from strengthening your immune system and once you remove your mask you will get all illnesses at a higher strength and risk level
@@pgpalito that's not how immune systems work. If you wear a mask or if you don't, getting an illness challenges your immune system. And when that challenge is more than your immune system can handle, you don't get a stronger immune system, you get dead.
@@snapkrispies5324 This is to scary' don't think I can make it 2nd time around @SNAP I'm trying to pretend this didn't happen....because I'm watching this On CHRISTMAS DAY 🎄......
I've just had a knee replacement. They did a test for MRSA, apparently as a routine pre-surgical test because so many people have it; a multi-drug resistant bacteria sometimes called a "flesh-eating bacteria". I had already discovered that I had acquired this bacteria, when I had an infection in my thumb that I couldn't clear after a couple of weeks. I didn't take antibiotics for that infection, just had my doctor help clean out the wound so my body could finish killing it, and that's what happened within a few more days. So when I tested positive from a nasal swab for MRSA, it as no surprise. I'm now "colonized" with the bacteria. My approach to the thumb infection has been the right way to go: not using antibiotics, just letting my body see and attack this new bug, so I stand a better chance of fighting it off on my own if it ever gets a foothold somewhere else in my body. I was treated like a plague rat when I went through the hospital for my knee surgery, lol! Everyone who came in contact with me was gowned up and wearing a face shield, as well as the usual gloves. I was out of the hospital the next day; it is better for anyone to stay out of hospitals, because that's where the bad germs are most concentrated. I most likely caught the bug from a recent surgery. But they wanted to get me out of there not just for my health, but also for the sake of getting my germ out of the hospital as well. I've become a source of this antibiotic-resistant germ, walking around in the world. I'm still thinking about the consequences of that ... should I stay away from vulnerable people? Not touch other people's babies, or visit sick people and my elderly relatives? The problems of antibiotic overuse are far worse today than when this documentary came out back in 2013. First off, another 8 years has passed. Second, many more people have had to go into hospitals during COVID-19, and every person going into to a hospital for multiple days walks out as a potential vector for the most common drug-resistant germs.
omg so true , in april 2020 i cut my hand in kitchen , hand swelled like grapefruit , 2 courses of antibiotics to clear , it was during covid 1 wave , hospital didn't even seem to care , they treated me like a nuisance , my close friend had knee replaced and mrsa forced amputation last year almost killed her , another close friend had lower back surgery done , had something like 10 surgeries , it destroyed her life , my dad had open heart surgery , they could never clear mrsa , he died , most surgical centers aren't reporting these infections , god know the true scope
Lol been there as well. But hey i looked at it as a very high chance of always getting a private room. The hospital is the WORST place to have a roommate.
@@trix1227 Yeah I had to use this before and after surgery. Hibiscrub too. When COVID hit I filled a liquid soap bottle with it for hand washing in the bathroom sink. It's a bit runny, but it's good at what it does!
I have had MRSA pneumonia 3x the last time it spread to MRSA sepsis I was in the hospital for weeks it took a full year to recover I consider myself extremely lucky I did
I once had a dr who never tested me for a bacterial infection but always prescribed antibiotics. I never took them because of my concern over resistant bacteria. I'm not a doctor but so far haven't regretted my decisions.
Doctors usually over prescribe antibiotics as a CYU (cover your a**) because if patients weren’t given antibiotics and they got a bacterial infection they’ll write a negative review at best (doctors can’t defend themselves cuz HIPPA) or might go to the hospital and get seriously sick. Most of the time patients don’t need them, but they don’t want to hear “tough it out”.
I had mrsa when I was 17. In 6 different boils on my legs. I was not given any pain medication when. I didn't sleep for 3 days. It had spread to my blood and took about 4 weeks to go away completely. I didn't realize how dangerous it was until years later. They never really explained how dangerous or easily it can be spread. I went to an urgent care in Big Rapids, MI. Because my parents were divorced, and that was the only place to take my father's insurance within 80 miles.
My mother fell and broke several things. My mother developed MRSA in the hospital. As horrible as the next 19 months were for us, her family, I can't imagine how monstrous an experience it was for her. The only silver lining I found was the fact that my mother passed away in 2010. I was able to hold my mother's hand and tell my mother that it was okay to go. Over the past 2 years there have been innumerable families that didn't receive that gift. That fact keeps me grateful daily. Please be well everyone.
My dad had a really bad bout with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Luckily he’s fine and fully recovered. It was so scary. I can’t imagine having your child go through that.
@@HeirloomReviews why did you wait so long to get it checked? Or what happened? My skin infection kept coming back because the one dr wouldn’t lessen to me so I had to drive to a hospital 8 hrs away to get proper treatment and I was right it was a skin infection not allergies
I'm a retired RN and have been in and out of the hospital many times in the past few years. Without going into details people come in and out of your room with a running swipe at a foam dispenser with most of it running down the wall. I am shocked that this technique has replaced hand washing which still only as good as the person using either attempt at cleanliness. And secondly, did I hear right, the drug company needs to think of their 'portfolios'? Worried about profit? What are you leaving this life with? God bless that young lady!
With regards to hand sanitizer people don't seem to realise there are bacteria that it doesn't kill, so it's no replacement for proper hand washing. My son had norovirus 3 times in the last year, from people at school using hand sanitizer in place of hand washing before eating. Clostridium difficile and norovirus are entirely unaffected by hand sanitizer, and both will make you wish you'd washed your hands!
My beautiful aunt passed away in 2007 due to a hospital aquired MRSA infection. I'm an RN and have been for 20 years, and these bugs are everywhere and we are very quickly reaching this point where we have no options for treatment.
In 1991, My daughter was super sick as a baby and I took her to the Dr. He gave me a prescription for antibiotics. I looked at him seriously and asked if the prescription was for my daughter or for my peace of mind. He smiled and took it back. He gave me a "cold pack" list of things I needed to make her feel better over 3-4 days . I've always been happy that I tend to try not to take antibiotics for me or my children. --- If I need it, I take it, but only if there aren't any other options.
As a former RN, this ECMO knowledge hit my heart cuz I would've signed the papers too cuz most people don't survive 💔 This documentary taught me fear on a whole new level.. God bless you all.
It's amazing and scary in how fast a Sepsis/MRSA Infection can spread from a simple wound. I had that happen to me. I had a small wound (half the size of a small fingertip) that took several months to heal. About a month after it had finally closed up I was getting ready for bed when I looked down and saw that my foot had a very small, light red blemish that didn't hurt so I thought no big deal. However, when I woke up 7 hours later, my foot had swollen to 3xs its normal size and was now dark purple with a thick, black streak running down the side of my left foots instep!! It took 2 initial surgeries to cut out the infection and an additional 2 surgeries afterward, so in total they cut out about 30-35% of the inside of my left foot. When I was sent home the Dr had put in a "Tack/Tec" (?) line" in my right chest area so I could give myself I.V. Antibiotics for the next 12 weeks, although the Drs thought it would be 6 Weeks! The Dr did save my foot with very minimal scaring when my foot or possibly lower leg could have needed to be amputated! While I'm still healing 9 months later, I feel lucky when I think of what could have happened (Death)... EDIT: For those that may think my surgical wound (now about the size of a Half Dollar coin) wasn't a big deal. It's now been 19 months and it still hasn't closed all the way up!! Even walking more than a few hours a day causes my surgical wound to star bleeding! Just saying... smh. EDIT #2, I'm now on month 24 (2 years) of healing my foot surgery wound area and it's still open! I have changed the way it was being treated and that seems to have sped up the healing. I guess I'll see in a few weeks. Probably TMI, but I have WAY TMT ON MY HANDS! LOL ;)
The most propable cause of death for seamstresses back in the day was a single prick from a needle. People have almost fully forgotten what kind of miracle antibiotics are and to which lengths we should go to protect their effectiveness.
Government fascist collusion with corporations does not produce innovation it bankrupt governments and spreads monopolization with the threat of violence from government. Its a dumb idea and a continuation of the problem we are experiencing right now.
Commonly omitted from these stories is that staph thrive in the absence of other bacteria. That's why they are so persistent and prevailent in sterile hospital settings. In natural settings these staph have to compete with other bacteria for resources. Maybe instead of antibiotics we should br fighting staph with bacteria that hinder staph while being harmless to human physiology. Recently researchers found a "giant" class of bacteria thats been among and inside us this whole time that we never identified simply becaise they are harmless to human physiology, but have been observed to seek out specific strains of bacteroa to consume as a resource.
some people use probiotics for this reason. keep the good flora ( bacteria) and it helps keep out the bad ones. good ones from things like natural unsweetened yogurt with active cultures. or use the capsules.
Not dissimilar to using a bacteriophage. Either way your problem bacteria gets munched without any risk to you or unnecessary chemical intervention. But bacteriophage libraries aren't in line with how capitalism works, so they only exist in the former Soviet countries, of which Georgia is the most renowned for it.
@@snowbunny783 Yeah, same with allergies. Low level exposure is the best thing in a great many cases, it's when the balance is disturbed that problems arise. Even bacteria have predators though, that's the simplest way to look at the issue, use the bacterias natural predators to wipe it out, they only focus on specific bacteria, so they're no danger to the rest of our cells. In that sense they're better than antibiotics which can exact a heavy till on the organs, as well as your natural fauna.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 huh? You can get MRSA from a simple paper cut. You can scrub yourself 1000 times a day and still get MRSA. MRSA is an equal opportunity infection.
I remember a friend of mine. She was 14 beautiful, friendly, vibrant, fun. She caught meningitis and within a week, perhaps days she was gone. Unbelievable shock. She was just vibrant, beautiful just last week. Great job Frontline. Thanks.
Here too in Indonesia... Until last few years you could buy antibiotics very easily in the pharmacy... The government has made stricter regulation now, but idk I think it's too late. My mother is one of the person who likes to buy and use antibiotics for everything. Even with stricter regulations, she can still find and buy some antibiotics. 😭
Bacteriophages are an upcoming alternatives of antibiotic resistance bacteria. I am personally using bacteriophages for my chronic infection and my reports are getting better. Most of us dont have knowledge of bacteriophages as it is confined to Russia and Georgia area and yeah after ww2 antibiotic paced up due to its broad spectrum effect.
Trump proudly boasted about those cutbacks as "saving" billions. This applied to a concerted effort to deal with Covid-19, too. "Penny wise, pound foolish" comes to mind. The market cannot solve all problems.
Addi passed away in 2019 at age 20 when her donated lungs failed, she said she did not want to be put back on the list because she had been given her gift. There are some lovely articles covering all her milestones and accomplishments during her "gifted" time. Her name is Addie Rerecich, she touched so many and certainly made the most of those lungs, and those lungs gave her 8 years.
People like her is why I became an organ donor
Awe that's so sad but amazing she made it until she was 20. The way her mom sounded she wasn't sure if she would even make it five years. I was just thinking about Covid 19 and how it's impacted Addie. Sad to hear she passed what a sweet girl
Life can be very cruel
Dayum
I can not imagine what it would feel like to have your child suffering like this and feeling so helpless. I pray now she is no longer suffering she is in heaven giving thanks to God for the time she was with us. Thanks for sharing this info.
70 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are used in animal factory farming. This needs to be understood, it is a major cause of antibiotic resistance. This is another reason why we need to rethink food choices.
I think it closer to 90 -95%
TY! Most people dont understand how toxic to the environment and ourselves factory farms are
True, best thing would be to have your own crops. Between GMO in the crops, pestisites in/on the crops, anti-biotics in meat, and plastic and toxins in fish there is little to nothing left in terms of fresh produce. :/
The food industry is the main creator of drug resistant antibiotics😭 They should not be allowed to use it in our meats and other foods.
Glad we outlawed it here in Canada. Some States don't do it either, it varies. If whoever they are selling to doesn't want that, then they will produce it without it. It's not a blanket thing like it used to be and nobody cared because they didn't know and they used them to fatten up livestock. But since this rise in antibiotic resistance, many have moved away from that practice.
Lost a 6 month old son in September of 1999 to Kleb. Haven’t heard it even mentioned since until this program. Never knew he had it until 3 months after autopsy when it was grown in a culture sample from his lungs. For those 3 months the we were being prepared for SIDS because there was no obvious signs of anything being the cause of death. At the time, my wife and I were told that about two infants per year die from Kleb in Arkansas and it was 100% fatal in infants. Woke up one morning and found him gone. Doctors said that his immune system went “haywire” and just shut his body down. To this day I have always wondered how in the hell he got that bacteria in his body. RIP Andrew Ronald Jay 3/24/99 to 9/24/99
@ Ron Jay… I’m very sorry for your Loss. Always Remember this though. You NEVER LOSE the ONE YOU LOVE…. AS LONG as YOU REMEMBER the ONE you’ve lost. =^..^=
I'm so sorry mate.
@@TheCatzMeowMix …
Thx for sharing your story. I’m 72& recently got. 3 antibiotic reactions, at a hospital…after which my arrhythmia/AFib kicked in , so had to recover in the Cardio area until I could go home. Now have a List of 7 to show every doc…..
RIP
Addie had to go through ECMO and lung transplant and regularly took a lot of pills every day just to get another 8 years of life. So for all of us who are lucky enough to not have to go through this, let's appreciate how precious is our lungs, health and our lives.
Priceless
Let's appreciate our lungs, each of its alveoli..
Let us sit still and breathe aware of the air coming in nourishing us... breathing is a wonderful thing
another 8 years of suffering and intubation, that's really sad
It's luck of the draw. We can pray and be thankful all day long and it isn't gonna make a difference when it comes down to illness. Contrary to what many very religious people would believe or have one belief it doesn't come down to praying it comes down to fate
We should be equally, if not more, concerned with, the use of antibiotics in the agricultural industry. About 80% of all antibiotics are used in agriculture, either in concentrated feeding operations (pigs, poultry, aquaculture) or on crops (citrus). This type of excessive use is allowing for resistance genes to become very widespread among bacteria in our air, water, and foods.
YES!! The animals r raised in such unhealthy unnatural crammed together situations that they r petri dishes for diseases. So they r given as prevention instead of changing practices back to more natural and healthy settings for the animals. I don't eat animal products anymore because it supports these horrible situations. And bacteria can be transferred from these loaded situations into our kitchens.
Very surprised the video did not mention this usage.
Exactly
This Is What Happens When Traditional/Herbal Medicine is Censored and Demonized by GOV and BIG PHARMA👍 All They Care About is DRUGS and PROFITS😪
@@cosmicrust9715 well, natural medicine has it's stigma from religious superstition.
Herbs are often a good supplement.
But not a cure for complex illnesses.
Pharmaceutical drugs are both good and bad.
Bacteriophages seems like the promised super weapon.
I know 6 people out of 18 dying sounds really bad, and I don't want to downplay the tragedy, but we should feel pretty proud of the hospital and it's staff. They contained such a dangerous infection over a 6mo period, only had 18 infected out of possibly hundreds of patients, and saved 2/3rds of them from an aggressive, antibiotic resistant bacteria with a known high mortality rate. They really did a fantastic job.
They did what they could with what they had. It could've been so much worse, MRSA is a bitch.
Great comment, it takes a lot of dedicated work and care to accomplish that results.
Agreed!! They did an amazing job. I'm going back to school for a degree in the medical field and I'm so excited, I really admire nurses and doctors and everyone who works to help people.
@@ErinJeanette Good luck to you!
@@GirlSmotheredToDeath thank you ❤️
Been there done that! I picked up MRSA in April 2017 from my dorm, had an abscess drained, went septic, hospitalized for a day, IV vancomycin, discharged the next day. Then in December 2017, I got pneumonia. Well, the MRSA that was hiding dormant in my body bloomed into a lovely necrotizing pneumonia. 13 days in the hospital, 4 in the ICU, 2 chest tubes, 1 PCA, 24 hr staggered azithromycin and Zithromax infusion, 3.5 liters of pleural effusion drained, they almost put me on a vent. Well, I fucking made it! It wasn’t easy but I’m here! I got MRSA two more times (once as an abscess on my head and once as bronchitis) until I was finally referred to an infectious disease doctor and went through a decon protocol. Haven’t had it since and hope to keep it that way!!!!!!!!!
Had MRSA as a kid but thankfully not nearly as bad as yours. They always warned us it could go dormant so we all were freaked out and overanalyzing every bump for awhile - been probably 7-10 years now though so hopefully it's gone!
Very interesting story, I'm sure you still live on the edge.
Stay well.
@@masonbobro3794 i hope so! Did you ever go septic with it?
@@nancyjones6428 thank you. Yes, I do
As a long retired critical care nurse, it has been known for at least 25 years that we were barreling toward the day we would have no effective antibiotics. No companies wanted to bother in investing the time and money needed to bring new antibiotics to market.
Wow, you’re so smart,
But how does research into antibiotics benefit the shareholders?
Antibiotics kill the good bacteria that keeps the bad bacteria away allowing the superbugs to run rampant as well.
Septis almost killed me. I was in ICU for a month. My body shut down and was on dialysis and a feeding tube. I was given two gallons of blood transfusion. I'm thankful I am still alive.
2 GALLONS?!
Try 2 UNITS/PINTS
awesome
I'm glad u r alive as well. This world needs you!
❤@@Unsolvedfanatic
I was so involved in Addie’s story that I looked her up and discovered she had passed. In this documentary her mother said they had bought her some time and that is wonderful. That she had that additional eight years to live and love and spread joy. I am sure she used them wisely and basically they all had time to prepare for her departure and she became mature enough to decide her own fate. It could have been one of my babies(youngest now 42) . What strength she and her mother had and what a bond. I love you, Addie. Thank you, Addie’s mom, for sharing her story.
you also brave enough ... GOD bless.
@@ejazrahim4183 Same to you. ❤️
That is so tragic… I just cried the whole time… She was so young and innocent, I don't understand it… it is just unfair and not right… The system is so corrupt and broken that we can't do anything to make it better and prevent future tragedies like Addie's, it makes me just angry…
RIP DEAR ADDIE.
YOU WERE AN EARTH ANGEL IN LIFE, And NOW YOU'RE A FOREVER ANGEL IN HEAVEN With JESUS And ALL THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL ANGELS.💜🙏💜
I pray her caretakers were able to fill those 8 years with as many different experiences as possible, in order to give her a lifetime of memories in her remaining time.
May you R.I.P. 🧎♂️🙏🙇♂️
Poor Addi. This brings back memories. My beloved husband Jim survived cancer only to die of an untreatable bacterial infection he picked up in the the hospital. It attacked his internal organs and shut them down. He fought hard he was in the hospital for an entire year before succumbing. My heart goes out to Addis family and all families who have lost a loved one.
I had to comment on this. First I'm so sorry for your loss. 2nd that has to be horrible to go to hospital sick from whatever where they actually keep you to then get sicker from being there . Omg that's horrible. Most men u have to beat to get them to even go to the Dr office let alone get them to go to the hospital. I pray when I'm gone my son's pay attention to everything body related and to listen to what I've told them.
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@@Sheila612Millerin those cases the patient is already immunsupressive.
I worked in geriatric nursing…I had a CNA come to work one day with her armpit bleeding…I asked her what was wrong…she said she had a sore under her arm…I had seen MRSA before…I put on gloves and protective gear and looked at it in the restroom…I immediately recognised it!!! I told her to go clock out and go to the er for treatment…It’s very contagious and they missed at least a week of work so they got to where they were working and trying to hide it…I hated to but I had to take all my CNA’S in the med room and check them for sores…I sent many home crying because they couldn’t afford to miss work but they didn’t realise how SERIOUS it was!! I caught it eventually myself!!!😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. This is what argues for ALL medical personnel, including the lowest-paid, to have full health insurance with no copays and paid sick leave. I would not want to have someone caring for me that was deliberately hiding an illness simply because they couldn't afford to take time off work!
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Former CNA here and MRSA was always our biggest enemy so to speak.
As an acute care nurse of 27 years, I have watched resistant bacteria progress to where we are today. And this is a multilevel issue-pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, insurance companies and the government. It is sad and ugly.
this freaks me out O_O
It doesn’t help when just about every doctor prescribes antibiotics for just about every illness.
Pharma should be required to develope new treatments or no more government money and taxed to the max.
@@dixiewade8373 But aren't we a capitalist society? That sounds like something China would do.
And parents had for years demanded antibiotics with viral infections 'because it made the kids get better', even though antibiotics do nothing for viruses of course. Pinkeye? Probably a virus but it MIGHT be a bacteria; antibiotics! Gum disease from not flossing? Antibiotics! And surface-antibiotics like Tricoslan or whatever. Tricolsan? Whatever. The one that was in Dial and all the antibiotic soaps of the 90s and oughts. Everything that made you feel bad? Insist just a bit and you got antibiotics too, because the HMO's back then wanted fastfastfast and the generic antibiotics were fast and cheap and 'harmless'!
Well...I hope we all enjoyed that 'low cost' fix to our insurance woes. I know my mom was guilty of that too any time she was paranoid about how bad I felt, even for stomach flus and everything else that worried her enough. I mean, maybe one of those things she worried about may HAVE killed me if she hadn't insisted...but we were all part of this cause. Doctors do it because we insist, because the insurers lean on docs to reduce billable hours, because lobbyists want to let Big Pharma keep making its record profits, and because we LET the lobbyists remain legal to DO that stuff.
It's all us. Everything else is because of us, or FOR us. The government doesn't put antibiotics in the water. And chlorine is not the same, of course! Chlorine kills everything; "equal-opportunity death" is hard to grow resistant to. Big Pharma doesn't make us take the antibiotics. The doctor can't force us to treat infections. Hospitals can't either.
But we opt to live with VERY-SUPER-MINIMUM, and sure I'll take anything that might help! *I* might die from this viral infection, gimme antibiotics to save my life! I insist! Screw my kids, my neighbors, my family's future...POUR IT ON ME.
All us. All of it. Welcome to the future we not only deserve, but that we paid to guarantee.
We can still fix this...but remember not to get 'antibiotics on the side' for things that you don't need it for. And buy less 'factory farm' food, because that level of disgusting jam-packing necessitates ongoing antibiotics as a corporate-level thing. Not curative dosing in response to an illness, but preventive, because 100 cows per square meter leads to (surprise) unhealthy cows and lots of poop all over each other. But hey, cheap burgers! Woo! \o/
We're getting EXACTLY what we've been paying for.
I was one of the first cases of aggressive MRSA. They came into my room in hazmat suits and quarantined my home. That was back in 2003. My first severe and seemingly unprovoked infection happened in my lip in 1992.. it swole up and was infected. Then I had gland infections in my sweat glands. I sat on a ring at school. Then it infected my finger. I had persistent infections until I was tested in 2003 when aggressive MRSA was diagnosed. I had infections for 18 years before seeing Dr. Robert Thomas in Michigan. I defeted it with his help. I had 400 excisions, pilonidal disease, pneumonia, marcupialization and removal of my sweat glands in several places. I contracted a complex resistant bladder infection and had to take Macrobid and 2 others. It was all pretty awful. I have been past it for many years and I still have paranoia and nightmares.
Omg !!!!
But you're still here It must have been a nightmare.
I feel for you! I contracted MRSA while deployed in Iraq back in 2006. It was a long road to recovery for me as well. I hope you’re doing ok now ❤️🩹
I had MRSA in my knee around that same time, through surgery and also intravenous antibiotics treatment they were able to get it under control and then cured over a period of 3 months. The doctors had told me that the antibiotics needed for treating MRSA were the same strength as you would find in Chemotherapy treatments. I remember that the veins where the antibiotics were administered felt like hard plastic tubing under the skin after they pulled the needle from my arm.
Wow...just wow! Incredible journey. Thank you for sharing...I just could not imagine. How did you trace it to something you sat on when the symptoms manifested in your lip...especially if you probably did not think much of sitting on that ring at the time? Just curious. Please, stay well!
I work in an ICU and there are still so many people who do not wear PPE correctly if at all because “they aren’t worried about it” or nurses who don’t reinforce wearing PPE to visitors. Ugh it drives me so crazy. Protect yourself and others people. It’s not hard.
I have a question.. why don’t we treat these deadly bacteria with bacteria phages? (Idk if I spelled it correctly) but if its the only option why not introduce phages to the body?
@@hibai8617 because bacteria phage can trigger immune response to body.
They should be kicked out. They’re putting the community at risk.
It is the wearing of watches and using their mobile phones with gloves on that gets me hopping mad! So unaware of cross contamination.
@@junehitchcock170 I think they just don’t care. They act as if the gloves are just to protect them.
I keep coming back here to remember Addi. My son at 6 months of age suffered a brain aneurysm. He continues to go to therapy and doctors' appointments weekly. He has a shunt and will be turning 3 years old soon. I am grateful for my extra time with him even though he could be taken from me at any moment. It's so hard not to think about that. I imagine Addi's mother thought about too.
As frightening as this is, it is amazing that most of us go through life so casually, experiencing scrapes and cuts, and exposing ourselves to potentially dangerous conditions, with no consequences. It is astounding that the millions of people living in horribly unsanitary environments such as the slums in India, are not dropping like flies. As a child I swam or waded through stagnant water ponds, and suffered cuts from barbed wire fences, yet only until reaching 60 did the odds finally catch up, when I caught a staph infection from exposure to sewer water from a backed-up shower drain. I had the typical puss filled boils on the skin, and eventually developed cellulitis in 1 leg. 3 injections and 5 weeks of several oral antibiotics appears to have knocked it out. It was a big wake-up, and I am much more conscientious about treating minor cuts and scrapes, disinfect my hands while out in public, and quit hand-shake greetings. Reports like this program make me deathly afraid of hospitals.
my bet is to try a garlic powder on bacteria .... and let garlic challenge bacteria genocide against any ungodly man made snake oil....
@@BritishMoralHQ ...interesting. I know that I used to have sinus infections yearsa ago until I started taking odor-free garlic capsules regularly... because I learned that garlic is a natural antibiotic, etc.
Human are resilient!
Garlic, apple cider vinegar, cloves, and honey. Cannabis oil also.
After 30-ish years of age every damage will be permanent so no more playing around. There won't be an aging population in a slum because they won't survive it. In third world countries the median (majority) age is around 30year old.
I knew overused antibiotics were an issue, especially in farming/feeding issues, but this may be one of the scariest documenaries I have ever seen.
I had a MRSA/MSSA/Diphtheria infection in my thoracic spine (T9-T12). It started as a pain in my back. Then one day a week later I felt horrible, and got up from my desk (I was at home), walked 2 feet, and my legs gave out from under me. I couldn't breathe. My chest hurt, I was confused, and I had a fever of 104. I got to the hospital and was diagnosed with Sepsis. An hour later I was in the ICU. The infectious disease doctor asked me if I had any cuts on my body, and I said, "yeah, I have a small cut on my toe". A month later I was facing the possibility of having my right leg amputated... I had a heart attack from the bacteria. Ultimately I lost my right big toe, and parts of a couple others. My thoracic spine and some ribs were destroyed, and left me partially paralyzed. I had been on 14 different antibiotics for over 5 years. I was hospitalized most of that time, often in the ICU. The infection spread to my mouth, and I have had around 30 oral surgeries to fix it. At one point my infectious disease doctor came into my room and gave me the bad news: He'd never seen anyone with disease as severe as mine survive for any length of time; all have died within 5 years. It's been 7 years so far, and I can walk again, though with a limp (I cannot feel my right leg/foot), and the core of my body is still paralyzed. My mouth looks normal again. I have some cognitive problems from the septic shock (I had it 4 times), so I used to be a fast talker/thinker, and now I'm quite slow and have a hard time finding the right words in a conversation, and have problems with my memory. My team of doctors said I most likely won't live a lot longer, as they expect the bacteria to come back, and this time they're probably be resistant to everything.
Im so sorry to hear your story and I hope you can continue to define the odds and not get the bacteria back again❤
I am an internal medicine doctor myself and tbh no doctor can even give approximate timeline. As medicine is not maths, it’s more of an art… but one thing I must tell you from my clinical experience of 13 years; the longer you are asymptomatic, better the chances you got…
And your word finding difficulty is Broca’s aphasia… if you are able to speak the right word (doesn’t matter the time delay) , it means your brain connections are intact, over time it’s bound to improve… and above all my best wishes and prayer to you… get well soon
Oh my .... you have been through so much - I'm so sorry 😞
@Hannah I wonder if phage therapy might help prolong your life against reoccurring bacterial infections
I'm a microbiologist about to begin my research on alternative methods to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections..... Wish me luck y'all. Thoughts and prayers with everyone who got affected by such bacteria. I always get annoyed when doctors prescribe antibiotics even in the most benign cases of infections. That's a recipe for disaster in the long run. We are nearing the time when antibiotics will become completely useless. That's terrifying.
Bacteriophages, perhaps?
Phage the Russian have been using it for decades
Manuka honey, silver, baking soda, salt
@@keileabrookeare you trying to mock the doctors and patients that go through such tragedy ? Why are people dying if it was that simple
It's being tested for direct drug delivery, however bacteriophages can often induce an immune response, so they are likely to be killed before they reach the target site@@trashcamprod
If Addi's Mom ever reads this I just wanted to say you are the most wonderful mother, woman and communicator. I am so sorry for your loss, heaven has a new and radiant angel.
My Daughter went to have an operation and ended up with a bacterial infection that made her worse then before she had the operation...
The antibiotics they gave her were over a thousand dollars...She got them and it finally got better, but she suffered for months...
I'm just thankful to God she's still here today...
thank medicine not the imaginary sky genie
You should be thanking the medical staff at that hospital
@@isimonsez intelligent design. Read it. There’s proof everywhere of the sky genie🧐🕊
@@isimonsez you obviously dont have any Faith in God
Even believe He exist
But He does
The Hand of God is overwhelming
Praise Him and Him only
God work in mysterious ways
all these 'resistant viruses were man made. in a lab . and released purposely . follow the money
I would love to see a documentary on the myriad of bacteria that live in our body with a focus on how a proper environment keeps them balanced.
it's irrelevant in this context, it's about artificially enhanced bacteria that are a by-product of medical procedures. it has nothing to do with natural biology, bacteria, and how our body works.
@@charon7320 it has everything to do with those things you just listed. “Medical procedures” as you say, don’t “artificially” create the bacteria. They have evolved this resistance due to us killing them off. It is the basic process of evolution - just being influenced by antibiotics. Think about a mouse that is born faster and can escape predators better than other mice - those mice will die but the fast one lives and has offspring that carry it’s speedy gene. Then the trait gets passed down and is selected for because those faster mice survive more often. It’s the same with the bacteria - they naturally change genetically over time, so this resistance gene popped up on its own - it’s the fact that we are able to wipe out the non-resistant bacteria that allows the resistant ones to proliferate and persist, rather than just being a one-off.
Point being, it is exactly having to do with natural biology and bacteria.
I will never forget the substitute teacher's words to our science class before we watched a movie "if you go into a hospital, make sure you ask how well they prevent Mrsa" I don't know what led him to tell us this advice to a group of high schoolers, but I still think about it to this day 😢 sad to all those who died and are still fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria
I had a double mastectomy with reconstruction and acquired a surgical site infection due to the plastic surgeon's horrific job of closing me up.
Ten days after the surgery, I went to the ER because my wounds were hot, purlent, and red.
The Dr's and nurses were horrified at the hack job, took a sample for the lab, cleaned, packed, and debrided the wounds and rebandaged me properly.
They put in a hep-port and started me on sulpha-meth, but when the lab results came back as MRSA w/ necrotizing fasciitis, I was bumped up to vanco.
After they were able to get the necrotizing fasciitis under control, they switched me back to sulpha meth for SEVEN MONTHS as the wounds granulated new skin.
I was then taken off of the abx, and then MRSA cysts began growing all over my body.
That was SIX years ago, and I still live with an active MRSA infection.
So, take it from me, MRSA is no laughing matter.
There was a time that I was doing remodel work in a hospital. One I morning woke with 106 temperature. I went to the emergency room immediately and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. It was 6 days before they found out that I contracted legionnaires disease. Hospitals are dangerous places! Don't ever take them for granted
It's a place to die in! Literary!
My grandfather got legeionaiires from taking a shower at John's Hopkins. Almost died a few times. It's fuckin scary dude
Legionnaires can occur anywhere where the bacteria can spread through mist: such as from air-conditioning units for large buildings, shower heads, toilets, etc. It's not just at hospitals - my local mall had an outbreak that killed a few elderly shoppers.
There are so many noscomial infections in hospitals and it is getting worse
6 days????? man, i would sue the shit out of that hospital. Legionnaires is absolutely no joke, and you're extremely lucky to be alive if you went 6 days without anitibotics. That is incompetence at the highest level
My mom had a surgery to fix her back, while in the hospital.she developed MRSA. They took out all the hardware, she had to heal from the inside out and had to wear a pump that pumped medication directly into her heart for months. It took her over a year to heal and it nearly killed her. She was never the same after.
I'm 62 years old I am extremely compassionate person and I have never in my life been this upset watching with this little girl went through it has taken me 10 minutes to voice text what I just said through tears
@@LilbigwomanN-wg4nm I don't need to lie I don't have nothing to lose
Talk about tldr
The last few minutes with Addi and her mum was lovely. Her mum really loves her and what a mum. She's awesome.
well the solution is simple but they still won't do it genetic engineered enhancements for peoples immune systems since they have no other option beef up a persons disease resistance
@@raven4k998 That is nowhere near simple.
If you 'beef up' a persons immune system too much it begins to attack the person itself, causing Sepsis, disabling conditions and more. Believe me, I should know. Its almost killed me a few times.
Look up 'autoimmune disorders'. That's what happens when a persons immune system is OVERACTIVE. Its a very delicate balance.
@@raven4k998 well lmao. this is real life and not a fantasy movie. gene editing is a very new field.
@@JDJoeil yeah and when it can stop old age by repairing ones dna to make them young again or keep them young then it will be fun times
@@raven4k998 you're just rambling about stuff you've clearly no idea about. again, this is real life and not a sci-fi/fantasy movie.
Frontline......always timely, always quality journalism, always thorough, and always scaring the bajesus out of it's viewers for nearly 30 years ! 😱
I love the way they just let you Figure out what they really trying to say . Read between the Iines. And Frontline has All Kinds of deniability when the " conspiracy theorists" prove to be just be ON POINT .
Bravo! Good Journalism
@@Freedomrose1 I dunno man. Think it’s just you. Once you put on that tin foil hat, you can find some bu!!sh!t in damn near ANYTHING. Hell, I bet you can see some serious sh!t playing out when you watch an episode of Sesame Street too, huh?
@@christinafidance340 it's time to wake up honey. this vaccine trial b******* May may help someone out may help certain people out but I am definitely not one that it benefits because I'm healthy I am white that's right I am white and I am strong. some because of their inability to absorb vitamin D and the way that it needs to be absorbed for whatever reason, obesity, Color of skin , elderly , youth, chronic illness, whatever the reason for the decrease in vitamin D, some are not as fortunate. Some may benefit with a vaccine. Im not sure. But the Risk out weighs the benifit in my case. And in several others to be vaccinated/rather than treating the virus. Mandate iAbsolutely not., helping you or me. It is only causing a reaction that equals to what they are look King to achieve. Money- And only the Rich have Power. And Add Bitcoin.. out of thier control. .... Little people like me and you - If they are smart! ---- Well We understand and see the shift in Wealth alread. Myself......I Am already holding more money than ever since Oct 2020.. And guess What!? Not for me....../My legacy-. . . my grand babies.......I will not sit and accept-free shit_for.
freedom. Because I Am not LAZY . Don't get me wrong. I'm tired. But Nobody Rides for Free!
@@Freedomrose1 lmao good luck with that when Omicron finds you.
but its better to be informed then lost in the clouds
As a researcher who works in both microbiology and cancer, it is heart breaking every time one of our patients come to a point where treatment cannot be made anymore.
To everyone who has not studied microbiology/immunology or worked in the medical field, please understand that we are trying our best in our respective research field. Each time a researcher works on a research, 1000s of hours spend in the lab, reading papers, and sharing information with countless other researchers to only contributes 1% to that field. It may not be now, or a 100 year later but eventually, we can come to a point where we can relieve symptoms and treat every disease.
That is my wish as a research, to the countless hours in front of an incubator, microscope, and laptop, we will get there one day. Don't give up. :) Have hope.
The best field to research is bacteriophage, and potentially using CRISPR edits to make unique bacteriophage for an individual.
In the early nineties I visited a lab at University College London where they were computer modeling potential antibiotics, and even then the problem was that there was almost nothing in the pipeline that wasn't massively toxic and dangerous to humans. It's a field that has been pretty much exhausted and that was thirty years ago. While I appreciate science likes to think it will find all the answers, sometimes the answer isn't found in chemistry but in biology. By using the natural predator of the bacteria in question. In Georgia in the former USSR bacteriophage is the standard treatment. You swallow a fly, and follow it with a spider in essence. In the same way a parasitic virus infects our cells, the right bacteriophage for your bacteria will do the same thing.
No profit in it though, still interested?
I can’t give you enough likes!!!!!
Sadly Big Pharma has way too much power on what medicines come to light
It's rather shocking and depressing such a highly qualified person is ignoring the basic fact that the primary reason for widespread MRSA issues is the absurd abuse of feeding healthy pigs with Antibiotics!
You should be aware of this deadly dangerous habit and spread information along with heavy criticism of the careless agricultural sector!
In Europe every one is aware of this problematic and some countries, like the Netherlands are fighting MRSA efficiently.
@@OmmerSyssel There are multiple ways MRSA spread, not just from pigs. And you should treat researchers with more respect because they put 100% of effort into all the work that they do even if failure is inevitable. Many of us lock ourselves in a tiny room for months to work on a project that may only fail.
Note; if you want to spread awareness, it should come from you spreading by word of mouth or internet now days because there is nothing greater then the power of voice.
Addis's story made me so emotional. I'm happy the doctors decided to go ahead with the lung transplant. 8 years of life is an incredible gift under such dire circumstances and she seems to have used hers well to live fully. Condolences to all her family and friends. These types of infections are so frightening.
This excellent documentary shows us why we need to develop bacteriophage therapies--and the public sector needs to lead the way!
FEW Sheeple RESEARCH / READ ! 😥
bacteriophage only solve a specific bacteria infection, it is not as magical as taking antibiotic pills; one has to test and identify the infecting bacteria before getting a species of bacteriophage to cure it, so it seems to be something for intensive care or hospital settings not to general public in clinics or pharmacy.
The private sector is better!!
@@carterpavloski9276 They are a Do-nothing domain.
@@carterpavloski9276 It depends. None is better than the other. Public sector can afford to think and plan for projects with longer term pay-off than the private sector which need to ensure quarterly profitability. Case in point, space exploration. There was NASA before SpaceX.
Best journalism on tv today. Thank PBS and frontline. May the world never stop supporting the Endowment for the Arts and the Endowment for the humanities
I agree. I've introduced my partner to it and she's from France. She'd never heard of it. Today? She can't miss a new episode. Great journalism for sure.
Amen.
They push alot of propaganda.
But ok
@@krotchlickmeugh627 totally agree and its sad most people are so gullible they don't even see it.
@@coshyno its disgusting.
But you gotta look at the commenters profiles.
They are k farm bots.
MRSA and sepsis nearly killed me 10 years ago. It was very difficult to get under control. It was a brutal experience.
I watched a doc on this skin eating bacteria when I was in my teens. I didn't think it was prevalent in the environment...I met this older gentleman in my twenties, he had the exact same thing happen to him. Brushed against some rusted piece of metal, paid no attention to it. His leg, at the thigh, has a fist sized hole in it. Where they had to carve it out. While in the hospital, he contracted MRSA. Because they were already treating him for the skin bacteria he was too weak to treat. It got into his blood. Eventually, it didn't kill him, he recovered. However, every once in a while, he would have a wound that didn't heal. It was interesting to have known him, honestly if not a little awkward seeing his wounds. That is a reality that he showed me exists...
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems yeah it's no joke; some of these bugs can't be treated. But a never ending flesh eating bacteria oh man...
I got pneumonia from inhaling some of my own vomit during a seizure; it quickly turned MRSA and got into my blood. All my organs failed but my heart didn't. I'm very fortunate to be alive.
Ya my cousin is a nurse her husband had skin eating bacteria. They had to cut it all off before it spread
You should have taken Oregano oils pills. They will kill any kind of bacteria, virus, yeast, fungus. Take at least 5 pills 3 times a day for a week.
@@fuzzytigercat stop spreading quackery. Reported.
My deepest condolences to Addi’s loved ones.
My daughter died Dec 1st 2012. From sepsis of unknown etiology they knew it was a bacteria but they couldn’t tell what kind, she went into cardiac arrest on Nov 26, 2012 and it died with her. I’ll always wonder what happened to her. She was fine. She died 2 days later.
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Wow. Condolences to you. 13 years later and I'm sure you think of her every day.
@@odarrien I think of her every second of my life. Thanks for your kind comment.
I will pray a Hail Mary for you and your family! What a terrible tragedy! My heart goes out to you!
My condolences to you. Could you kindly elaborate on her case, specifically on pathology reports. Was her blood tested more thoroughly. Heart failure can happen by bacterial/viral infections. Was she hospitalized on her last days. I do a lot of case studies for medical journals and health institutions.. Thank you.
I give my sincerest gratitude to Addie, her mom, David, and all others involved in bringing to light information about these super bugs. Incredible sadness overcame me when at the very end of this upload, finding out that Addie had lost her battle and had passed. Rest in peace sweet pea. 😢🤗
I have a two year old son and stuff like this freaks me out and hate being a parent. You do all you can for them but there's so many parents that lose their children to horrible incidents that you have no control over.
Freaking out about something you have no control over. Will make you ruin his immune system and force him to not live his life or experience childhood.
Once you have another kid youll realize you have become a parent nazi and youll completely neglect the second child.
It will make him think you hate him.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 Lol, calm down bud
I had fell down and get cuts for umpteen times. I nearly drowned in a swimming pool at age 10 when my muscles cramped. I had swam in river water. I had drank water from the river. I was pierced with a pencil by a bully at school. I had fell on my back on a flight of concrete stairs and I can feel my coccyx, skull and vertebrae were hit with a bang. I once fell into a drain deeper than my height when I was riding a bicycle. I had also rolled down a slope and almost hit on rocky surface. I wonder how after all that shit I am still alive now at age 31. Maybe I am just incredibly lucky.
This should be a wake-up call to all governments of the world - Antibiotic research needs public funds invested in it as a matter of priority! We also need serious legislative restrictions on the flagrant overuse of antibiotics currently.
Derick Mc, You're not suggesting that politicians interfere with doctors' practicing medicine, are you? Most of us trust physicians' opinions over lawmakers' any day.
@@pamelaporter4750 Yes unfortunately I am saying that Doctors must be stopped from giving out antibiotics for sniffles, colds, etc. They must be kept as a nuclear option only, or one day we won’t have any that work.
Regulation isn't going to do much. The issue lay within the towns in India that produce these antibiotics. The run off from these facilities goes into the environment and creates these super bugs. The other side of the coin is the weaponization of them as well. I agree with you that better utilization of current antibiotics are needed. But a political bill isn't going to stop the source issue.
We do not prescribe antibiotics, “flagrantly” it’s a life saving tool and we never stop studying them.
And phage therapy!
Devastating to hear Addi passed away aged 20. What a beautiful soul she is! A Wonderful mother too? You're a warrior Mum.
So young, so unfair. This young woman showed more courage and dignity than I've seen in a long time. Fly free Addi, your light still shines bright on this world.
Love to Addie and to all who endure such challenges. May she rest in peace. ❤️
My dad beat cancer just to die from MRSA months later, in the early 2000s, we've known about this bugs since forever, but we keep misusing antibiotics anyways, we keep injecting them into chickens and cows, we keep using a hammer to kill flies and we are starting to pay the price now.
Perplexing why the government doesn’t fund the research, thanks frontline for another great documentary
Because braindead Republicans think that's socialism .
@@bodombeastmode We just need to start interviewing them outside their sick children's hospital rooms. Should do the trick...
@@bodombeastmode it’s not just the Republicans, it’s our entire elected government that swims in unlimited campaign contributions. They are all bribed but the republicans are just the most brazen because they will accept cash from anyone that will hand it to them. That’s why they have the balls to say that 98% of the scientific community is full of it when it comes to climate change and their okay with the government controlling medical decisions for a woman’s body but we better not ever pass any legislation to help stop another mass school shooting. They can sure be evil little dicks but unfortunately when it comes to money from the medical and pharmaceutical industry, both sides are all balls deep in it.
The food industry would never allow their purchased politicians to stop them feeding antibiotics to food animals.
They don't care
Few minutes in I'm already crying. Seeing children so sick makes me so incredibly sad.
Please update this episode to reflect that Addie Rerecich passed away on December 2019. Her body rejected her lungs and she declined to have another double lung transplant. She died at home on December 30, 2019 surrounded by her family and friends. She was just 20 years old.
This is, unfortunately, pretty standard for lung transplants. Seems like, at least. I know someone who died after having it (they had CF, though).
Very tragic.
My god what a horrible thing for that little girl and her mother to go through. I worked in a medical library in a midwest city hospital and I have never heard of some of the pathogens they are talking about. What a nightmare.
I think I read somewhere that little girl died later.. horrific. So sorry for her mom.
@@francisphillips53 she had a lung transplant and then contracted tuberculosis.
Did You READ the BOOKS there ?
@@samreynolds3789 she died at 20.
This is very interesting. My husband just died from this but his situation was different, the hospital didn't test his blood for the best antibiotics to treat my husband they ended up overdosing him on IV antibiotics till he went into kidney and liver failure. They tried to say it was from his infection but I got the doctor to admit he didn't test the blood for the antibiotics that were responding to the infection. They didn't allow him to shower for weeks in the hospital they asked to do a pick line and the more I get information learning the more I learn they literally didn't do anything to save him and these were things I didn't know trying to learn everything I could. My heart is so broken because the way the hospital treated him was cruel and inhumane, I cannot get over how the hospital mistreated him going against his wishes and intentionally causing harm to end his life after not doing the basic treatment for his condition in the first place it's devastating and cruel. I truly wish I let him die at home it's what he was trying to do in the first place but I was so scared to loose him I would of done anything to save his life but didn't realize how badly he'd be treated how much worse they could make things on him.
Sry for your loss
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Incredibly sorry for your loss. You have been robbed. I'm sorry your husband and you have endured this level of negligence and incompetence. This is devastating. Please accept my deepest condolences. I hope you get to the truth you are seeking and it finally gives you some peace.
I am sorry for your loss. That's a terrible way to lose someone. I lost both my parents under similar circumstances. My husband died, but not due to any medical intervention. Personally, I steer clear of all things pharmacutical and all things medical. It's all just going south. You did everything you knew to do at the time, that is all any of us can do. Forgive yourself, and try to push forward. You must live on and be happy, he would have wanted that for you, right? Right. hugs
I ❤️ give my Condolences 🙏 too
For losing your Husband..I can tell
You had such a deep love ❤️ for your Husband..
I went into septic shock from a kleb infection in my kidneys. I was fine one minute and passed out on the floor the next. The doctor who treated me saved my life. I recovered after months of IV antibiotics. I'm lucky to be alive. To this day, I have no idea how I contracted it.
This show is truly an eye opener! Its very scary to think a tiny cut on your hand can turn deadly with no help from antibiotics.
That has been the case for hundreds of thousands years since humans existed. Only in the last 80 years it had been different, and only in the more affluent parts of the planet. But we also understand microorganisms evolve fast enough to survive every particular medication we use in the long run.
A person doesn't realize how much they take life for granted until these kinds of circumstances occur,
You are so correct.
I couldn't imagine getting my leg, or anything sawed off. He is an angel going to help kids he is a blessed young man
As a now retired Public Health RN & Educator, I'm numb learning of yet another tragedy of what happens after critical subjects are omitted from, and teacher salaries stagnated in American Public Schools' K-8 core curriculum: basic First Aid, basic anatomy & biology (+sex ed), and societal civics/govt. finance. The world has been paying the price exponentially since the Sixties.
Sex Ed? Last I checked it was taught in full force with added pornography as "teaching aids".
But removing Basic first aid is moronic.
What?
Absolutely. You are 100% correct!
true, very true. Proper hygiene, and cleaning one's cell phone! More fresh air more sunshine, more time outside. Have you heard of ozone therapy? It was used with great success in the 1930s with great success before antibiotics.
This is more terrifying than any horror movie.
As a researcher in AMR THANK YOU Frontline for bringing this to the public's attention!
I can not imagine what you have had to watch your precious child go through! We had a child born with non adrenal glands. He is now 58 and has medical issues but he is still alive! Bless your heart! You are so amazing.
you'd think this pandemic would teach us something about what we can do if we throw ourselves into medical research as a global community and how vulnerable we are if we don't but I guess not
Same thing goes for vaccinations if you know what I mean
Probably not the best documentary to be watching several years later & currently battling a gram negative UTI for over 15 months 😢
Hang in there. I hope you get well soon.
You will recover. Sending you strength
Which bacteria is it? I had klebsiella and finally fought it after 1 year by getting vacxinated with strovac
I had the same. A drug resistant UTI for 2 years. It is gone now but I had to figure it out and research myself because despite antibiotics it got worse and worse.
It’s not a good documentary when it doesn’t even mention that the vast majority of antibiotics use is in the animal agriculture. If you care about this issue, then the absolutely first thing to do is quit meat.
When my son was a baby, he got croup. It was terrifying to us new parents because it seemed like he couldn't breathe. I rushed him to the emergency room. The doctor told me it was a viral infection and put my son and me in a room that I think was some kind of steam room. After a while, my son was doing much better, so we went to talk to the emergency physician before being discharged. When I sat down, the doctor handed me a prescription for antibiotics. In confusion, I said "I thought you said this was a viral infection." He seemed a little surprised, then said, "well the prescription is just in case there's an underlying bacterial component." This sounded like hogwash, so I took the prescription to my son's pediatrician the next day and asked if I should fill it. He looked at it, crumpled it up and threw it in the trash, shaking his head. He said that a lot of doctors prescribe antibiotics even when they know they won't do any good, just because people insist on them. I guess the emergency room doc just assumed I'd be one of those people and had the prescription ready when I didn't even ask for it. Doctors really need to be more assertive in refusing medications to patients who don't need them, and patients need to educate themselves and stop demanding medications and treatments when they don't know what they're talking about.
Not true. A lot of viral infections turn bacterial. Nothing helps except antibiotics. If you don't get it fast enough you can really become very sick. The first doctor was right.
Your pediatrician fibbed. I work in medical claims and billing. Docs get more money when the write a script....
@@ashleyhavoc1940 You went overboard to say the pediatrician 'fibbed'. He/She simply provided one of SEVERAL VALID reasons why there is an over-prescription, and it didn't coincide with yours. Since you accused the pediatrician of lying, would it also be fair if I accused YOU of lying because I know of a third reason, one I've heard from people in the medical field?....Liability/lawsuits. Throw EVERYthing at a problem, just in case. That's safer than missing something. Even if nothing was missed and it has no utility, prescribing it gives litigation attorneys one less avenue on which to fabricate an accusatory narrative.
Usually they prescribe ab when you already have immune decificiency. I got ab for my Tonsillitis which was ok, but got a lof of side effects from it. Now i'm sick with some kind of infection ,(maybe kind of cold), and he prescribed the same ab! I mean, how can you prescribe ab (only killing BACTERIA) without knowing what i got? Most certainly i got a virus, i didnt take the ab but only a few ibuprofen. I hope this will do.
It astounds me when people can't believe that our medical knowledge and abilities only go so far
Last month I went from being 100% healthy to deathly ill in a blink of an eye. I went to church and felt fine, within 45 min of being home I started vomiting uncontrollably. I thought I had food poisoning. I went to the rest room and when I went to walk back to my room I had an incredible pain in my growing on my right leg. I thought "oh crap, I have a blood clot". About 15 min later my right leg from just below my knee to my foot started hurting. All night long I was in and out of delirium and by the next morning my leg looked like someone had taken a blow torch to it. It was so swelled, red and hot to the touch I felt like it was going to burst. My eldest son called an ambulance and when they got me to the hospital I had 104f fever and was delirious. I was diagnosed with MSSA, the nicer relative of MRSA. I had 5 days of IV antibiotics plus 10 more days of oral when the sent me home.
My leg is almost back to normal, I am so thankful it wasn't as bad as these other bacteria. That was an extremely scary experience and I don't wish it on anyone.
Your story sounds familiar to mine. Currently getting over mrsa in my lower left leg.
@@angelaburnham2534 prayers for you, it sucks and is horrible. I hope you heal rapidly
IN 2008 I HAD FULL BLOWN MRSA ALL OVER MY BODY..CIPRO WAS THE ANTIBIOTIC OF CHOICE..TOOK LIKE 6 MONTHS TO HEAL..LUCKILY THE LARGE NASTY BOILS I SQUEEZED FULL OF PUSS DID NOT GO SEPSIS OR INTERNAL DAMAGE..IM FINE WITH THE SCARS I GOT..THE ONLY NOTICEABLE ONE IS BEHIND MY LEG A QUARTER SIZE..I HAVE THE 8 YR CURSE..EVERY 8 YEARS SINCE 1999..I LOSE MY JOB AND GET A HORRIBLE DISEASE..I TOLD MY MOM THIS A FEW TIMES..SHE GOES OMG..I SAID..WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999..2008..2015..AND 2023..THIS YEAR I LOST MY JOB AND GOT A LOVELY DISEASE WITH IT..IVE HAD SCABIES FOR LIKE 3.5 MONTHS..YEA LOVELY BUT I THINK IM GOOD NOW
@@tobybuckwheat9270I am glad that you recovered. Did you ever find the source? Was it a cut?
We should push for changes in the law. Hospitals should be forced to report those outbreaks to the public. We have a right to know, so new patients can avoid those hospitals. And yes, they should have closed the hospital temporarily at least, until the outbreak was under control or at least until they knew where it was spreading.
More government has never, in the history of man. Been the answer to anything.
Agree. My father contracted MRSA after bypass surgery and was in the hospital for 2+ months. Luckily, he survived but fast forward 4 years later another person in my family contracted MRSA in the same hospital.
@@mdjay1000 news flash MRSA lives in every hospital.
@@FaceFcuk That and other bugs too.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 You walked away from a documentary about how no for-profit company wants to develop antibiotics anymore because they're not profitable, and the only reason research is still being done today being from government subsidies, with this opinion? I have a bridge to sell you.
I got a staph infection from a thorn. It spread up my leg but became strep on the outside. I spent 3 days in quarantine because no concoction of antibiotics would stop the spread and they were not 100% sure of what my infections were. I spent 17 days in the hospital and had two surgeries to remove the infected tissue.
I was terrified because at one point they discussed removing part of my leg. My doc explained to me that antibiotics no longer work effectively. He had to use 4 antibiotics at once because 1 had no effect on the superbugs that have grown resistant to our antibiotics.
This is absolutely terrifying! Thank you for sharing this documentary!
Note to self- don’t walk nearby train tracks-
I refuse to believe that someone could have so little situational awareness that you could be hit by a train, and I don't believe the story of how he ended up in that situation and I'd bet he was doing something dumb that he was too ashamed to admit. That wasn't Japan where the train was going 240MPH, it was probably doing 60MPH absolutely max, or more likely 35-40MPH going by the poor condition of the rails that are likely in a slum area, you will hear that train coming for at least a minute and have PLENTY of time to avoid getting hit by it.
@@K31TH3R true, being distracted or impaired are so dangerous in this setting. Noise canceling headphones are great at times but dangerous in settings like these.
Abuse and overuse of Anti-biotics is a real problem. There is a great book by Stephanie Strathdee 'The Perfect Predator' that not only underscores this and how she used macrophages to save her husband when no antibiotics could help him.
Ty for the book rec!
Thanks for the book rec, too. I have read 2 others, concerning the overuse of antibiotics. One is The Yeast Connection, written by a medical doctor who first was baffled seeing so many children being brought in with ear infections, fully documented, good interesting read. The other one, I can't recall its exact title, the book is not here at my location, I think it is called The Superbug, The Fatal Menace of MRSA Written by a female investigative reporter, Maryn McKenna, who followed the WHO organization around for a length of time. Thoroughly researched book, also.
@@singmysong1167 ty, I'll check those out tonight!
@Biology Discussions if the population doesnt get in line we wont have to worry about the next abx resistant bacteria 🥴
@Biology Discussions Not likely. Viruses spread much faster than bacteria and can infect much more people at once. They also have a much higher rate of mutation. It would take a longer span of time for even a drug resistant bacteria to kill as many people as Covid has.
With all the antibiotics blanket applied to almost everything in livestock we've basically squandered the gift of life saving medicine for cheap fried chicken and hamburgers.
We took our son to doctor a few years back. He had a wicked cough, croope and a temperature. He had a chest infection. They asked if we wanted antibiotics... asked... when we said only if he really needs them. The relief on thier face was obvious and evident. They are so used to parents kicking up a huge fuss if antibiotics arnt given they ask even when they're not completely necessary. He was just under a year old at the time. He got better fine without antibiotics.
That definitely made the problem way worse, can’t believe doctors would ask parents like they would know if it good or not and just give them out. Thankfully you guys were smart and realized he may not of needed them to recover.
@@nProneColor I think it was less to do with wether the parents would know or not and more to do with the abuse if they are not offered. I had a friend and if her kids even made a noise that sounded like a sneeze she rushed them to the doctor, she repeatedly told us stories of her kicking off because they wouldn't give her antibiotics for her kid... who had virus anyway, if it was sick at all so antibiotics are useless against a virus.
I think they wouldn't of asked us but for the fact it was borderline. My little one was at the point where you could justify the use of antibiotics but not where they were definitely needed.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your daughter. I'm just glad you were able to have the time with her that you did. She's up in heaven healthy and smiling down on you. God bless.
Addi was SUCH a total sweetheart and a true blessing to every life she touched, and continues to even now. She's in such a better place now, just waiting to see all her loved ones again when it's their time to join her. Incredibly touching and informative documentary. Thank you Frontline, and much gratitude to Addi and her family for sharing their journey, pains, and triumphs.
This is absolutely terrifying. Can you imagine going in with a minor cut and then having to get your arm cut off or worse?
Yes!
This was quite normal until the late 1920's...
@@oneshothunter9877 I know. It was terrible
It's terrifying to think that for most of human history this has been normal. Diseases, infections, viruses, etc. Humans have gone through a lot of real shit.
We are living the best times in human history, and yet, things like these still occur.
Or having your leg hacked off with a machette by an Indian "doctor" with no anesthetic 😳
@@cristiantalero96 The very fact that we humanity still managed to populate Earth despite so many horrors inflicted upon us, is in itself mind boggling.
This is so very interesting. I spent 2 months in the ICU due to an antibiotic resistant illness that was never identified. I went in to Toxic Shock. I shouldn’t even be here, but by the grace of some higher being it wasn’t my time and I’m still here 15 years ears later.
My grandfather and father (both long dead) always said, “Don’t go into a hospital. That’s where people die.” True on so many levels. You don’t want to go where a lot of sick people are congregated, because chances are high you’ll pick something up from them. Ever since the Covid pandemic started, I’ve been wearing a mask in public. The Japanese have done it for decades. I used to get at least two colds a year, but have had none since starting to wear a mask. Before wearing a mask, i got an upper respiratory infection every time i was on a plane. Now, i don’t have to suffer that way any more.
there is nothing in this world that will guarantee safety. you may increase the chance to be safe but by doing this things become redundant . masks have inherent risks as well. But it is your choice. there are reasons why i dont, well unless im spray painting =)
@@lostchild488wearing a mask when you're sick isn't for you, it's a way to help the people around you and prevent harming them.
Masks don't have "inherent risks," @lostchild488. Unless you wear the same one day after day, if you change them out as needed, they're proven to not cause any of those so-called risks that people were worried about early in the pandemic.
And they're not just for the other people in the room, @cursedwithsentience4017 because they do slow down the rate of infiltration by any background floating particulates. If someone is super infectious and you're near them long enough, sure, the mask won't do the trick. But if you're in a big crowd and you're exposed to 10 people's germs instead of 100 because you've got a layer of fabric between your nostrils and the world, you're 10 times less likely to lose the game.
A mask will protect you in a way but it will also prevent you from strengthening your immune system and once you remove your mask you will get all illnesses at a higher strength and risk level
@@pgpalito that's not how immune systems work. If you wear a mask or if you don't, getting an illness challenges your immune system. And when that challenge is more than your immune system can handle, you don't get a stronger immune system, you get dead.
I will never pick a scab ever again.
Frontline is one of the greatest shows ever! 👍🏻
Damn, I have learned of how bad this bacteria can be but never thought it would be this crazy. Good journalism PBS👏👏👏
*Learned not learnt.
No such word as learnt. UK uses burnt and spelt, instead of burned and spelled, but learned is used throughout all English language.
@@Livetoeat171 thanks for your correction. I'm open to always learning
@@Wakereu they're both correct, English and America English so you can use any
This story was absolutely heartbreaking, I am so grateful
I know it’s mind blowing I’ve watched it like three times scary
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This is to scary' don't think I can make it 2nd time around @SNAP
I'm trying to pretend this didn't happen....because I'm watching this
On CHRISTMAS DAY 🎄......
@@miltonhollis703 Yes I know it is completely scary and mine blowing it’ll eat at you end up watching it again God bless enjoy Christmas
@@snapkrispies5324
Never thought anything like this was possible....Merry Christmas @Snap Krispyes...might give it another shot"
Hi I am so grateful I'm metal sonic doesn't give a shit
I've just had a knee replacement. They did a test for MRSA, apparently as a routine pre-surgical test because so many people have it; a multi-drug resistant bacteria sometimes called a "flesh-eating bacteria".
I had already discovered that I had acquired this bacteria, when I had an infection in my thumb that I couldn't clear after a couple of weeks. I didn't take antibiotics for that infection, just had my doctor help clean out the wound so my body could finish killing it, and that's what happened within a few more days. So when I tested positive from a nasal swab for MRSA, it as no surprise. I'm now "colonized" with the bacteria. My approach to the thumb infection has been the right way to go: not using antibiotics, just letting my body see and attack this new bug, so I stand a better chance of fighting it off on my own if it ever gets a foothold somewhere else in my body.
I was treated like a plague rat when I went through the hospital for my knee surgery, lol! Everyone who came in contact with me was gowned up and wearing a face shield, as well as the usual gloves. I was out of the hospital the next day; it is better for anyone to stay out of hospitals, because that's where the bad germs are most concentrated. I most likely caught the bug from a recent surgery. But they wanted to get me out of there not just for my health, but also for the sake of getting my germ out of the hospital as well. I've become a source of this antibiotic-resistant germ, walking around in the world. I'm still thinking about the consequences of that ... should I stay away from vulnerable people? Not touch other people's babies, or visit sick people and my elderly relatives?
The problems of antibiotic overuse are far worse today than when this documentary came out back in 2013. First off, another 8 years has passed. Second, many more people have had to go into hospitals during COVID-19, and every person going into to a hospital for multiple days walks out as a potential vector for the most common drug-resistant germs.
omg so true , in april 2020 i cut my hand in kitchen , hand swelled like grapefruit , 2 courses of antibiotics to clear , it was during covid 1 wave , hospital didn't even seem to care , they treated me like a nuisance , my close friend had knee replaced and mrsa forced amputation last year almost killed her , another close friend had lower back surgery done , had something like 10 surgeries , it destroyed her life , my dad had open heart surgery , they could never clear mrsa , he died , most surgical centers aren't reporting these infections , god know the true scope
Use hibiclense when you shower
Lol been there as well. But hey i looked at it as a very high chance of always getting a private room. The hospital is the WORST place to have a roommate.
no doubt a lot of them actually died from hospital infections as a lot of misdiagnosis was going on around covid.
@@trix1227 Yeah I had to use this before and after surgery. Hibiscrub too. When COVID hit I filled a liquid soap bottle with it for hand washing in the bathroom sink. It's a bit runny, but it's good at what it does!
I have had MRSA pneumonia 3x the last time it spread to MRSA sepsis I was in the hospital for weeks it took a full year to recover I consider myself extremely lucky I did
You're blessed 🙌🏾 😇
I once had a dr who never tested me for a bacterial infection but always prescribed antibiotics. I never took them because of my concern over resistant bacteria. I'm not a doctor but so far haven't regretted my decisions.
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Doctors usually over prescribe antibiotics as a CYU (cover your a**) because if patients weren’t given antibiotics and they got a bacterial infection they’ll write a negative review at best (doctors can’t defend themselves cuz HIPPA) or might go to the hospital and get seriously sick. Most of the time patients don’t need them, but they don’t want to hear “tough it out”.
This is why I don't go to the f ing doctors anymore, the solution to every problem is "let's prescribe you some beautiful antibiotics "
@@KEWONZOR relax Neanderthal sheesh 🙄
@@MissTrinidad trolls 🙄
I had mrsa when I was 17. In 6 different boils on my legs. I was not given any pain medication when. I didn't sleep for 3 days. It had spread to my blood and took about 4 weeks to go away completely. I didn't realize how dangerous it was until years later. They never really explained how dangerous or easily it can be spread. I went to an urgent care in Big Rapids, MI. Because my parents were divorced, and that was the only place to take my father's insurance within 80 miles.
That poor sweet baby. I cannot imagine. Praying for her family. 💔
My mother fell and broke several things. My mother developed MRSA in the hospital. As horrible as the next 19 months were for us, her family, I can't imagine how monstrous an experience it was for her. The only silver lining I found was the fact that my mother passed away in 2010. I was able to hold my mother's hand and tell my mother that it was okay to go. Over the past 2 years there have been innumerable families that didn't receive that gift. That fact keeps me grateful daily.
Please be well everyone.
Sorry for your loss.
My dad had a really bad bout with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Luckily he’s fine and fully recovered. It was so scary. I can’t imagine having your child go through that.
I spent 5 months this year fighting an infection. Thank god for antibiotics
I had a UTI for 2 years an it almost killed me!
@@HeirloomReviews why did you wait so long to get it checked? Or what happened? My skin infection kept coming back because the one dr wouldn’t lessen to me so I had to drive to a hospital 8 hrs away to get proper treatment and I was right it was a skin infection not allergies
@@i-am-frenchie2480 there saying i have cancer and the wont give me a diagnoses, they just want to cut out half my bladder.
I'm a retired RN and have been in and out of the hospital many times in the past few years. Without going into details people come in and out of your room with a running swipe at a foam dispenser with most of it running down the wall. I am shocked that this technique has replaced hand washing which still only as good as the person using either attempt at cleanliness. And secondly, did I hear right, the drug company needs to think of their 'portfolios'? Worried about profit? What are you leaving this life with? God bless that young lady!
With regards to hand sanitizer people don't seem to realise there are bacteria that it doesn't kill, so it's no replacement for proper hand washing. My son had norovirus 3 times in the last year, from people at school using hand sanitizer in place of hand washing before eating. Clostridium difficile and norovirus are entirely unaffected by hand sanitizer, and both will make you wish you'd washed your hands!
Keep supporting capitalism and this is the system you get- at all levels of society and civilization
Thank you for this documentary. We do take life for granted while some of others fight to see another day.
The shock at the end that Addie survived and lived a little while longer - wow.
I hope we can get the whole bacteriophages-as-antibiotics thing figured out soon, watching this has made me sort of want to bathe in hand sanitizer 😭
My beautiful aunt passed away in 2007 due to a hospital aquired MRSA infection. I'm an RN and have been for 20 years, and these bugs are everywhere and we are very quickly reaching this point where we have no options for treatment.
This is the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life !!!! Thank you for this documentary 🙏.
In 1991, My daughter was super sick as a baby and I took her to the Dr. He gave me a prescription for antibiotics. I looked at him seriously and asked if the prescription was for my daughter or for my peace of mind. He smiled and took it back. He gave me a "cold pack" list of things I needed to make her feel better over 3-4 days . I've always been happy that I tend to try not to take antibiotics for me or my children. --- If I need it, I take it, but only if there aren't any other options.
As a former RN, this ECMO knowledge hit my heart cuz I would've signed the papers too cuz most people don't survive 💔 This documentary taught me fear on a whole new level.. God bless you all.
It's amazing and scary in how fast a Sepsis/MRSA Infection can spread from a simple wound. I had that happen to me. I had a small wound (half the size of a small fingertip) that took several months to heal. About a month after it had finally closed up I was getting ready for bed when I looked down and saw that my foot had a very small, light red blemish that didn't hurt so I thought no big deal. However, when I woke up 7 hours later, my foot had swollen to 3xs its normal size and was now dark purple with a thick, black streak running down the side of my left foots instep!! It took 2 initial surgeries to cut out the infection and an additional 2 surgeries afterward, so in total they cut out about 30-35% of the inside of my left foot. When I was sent home the Dr had put in a "Tack/Tec" (?) line" in my right chest area so I could give myself I.V. Antibiotics for the next 12 weeks, although the Drs thought it would be 6 Weeks! The Dr did save my foot with very minimal scaring when my foot or possibly lower leg could have needed to be amputated! While I'm still healing 9 months later, I feel lucky when I think of what could have happened (Death)...
EDIT: For those that may think my surgical wound (now about the size of a Half Dollar coin) wasn't a big deal. It's now been 19 months and it still hasn't closed all the way up!! Even walking more than a few hours a day causes my surgical wound to star bleeding! Just saying... smh.
EDIT #2, I'm now on month 24 (2 years) of healing my foot surgery wound area and it's still open! I have changed the way it was being treated and that seems to have sped up the healing. I guess I'll see in a few weeks. Probably TMI, but I have WAY TMT ON MY HANDS! LOL ;)
The most propable cause of death for seamstresses back in the day was a single prick from a needle.
People have almost fully forgotten what kind of miracle antibiotics are and to which lengths we should go to protect their effectiveness.
I'm not opposed tp paying more taxes with the proceeds going to antibiotic and cancer research. We need to tackle those two finally.
Should of been done along time ago.
@@sheridansplace1607 Should *have
That, along with phage therapy. It may save the day, filling in for antibiotics.
Government fascist collusion with corporations does not produce innovation it bankrupt governments and spreads monopolization with the threat of violence from government.
Its a dumb idea and a continuation of the problem we are experiencing right now.
We will never cure cancer...its because we've poisoned the planet and its everywhere....from pesticides, micro plastics, and polution.
Commonly omitted from these stories is that staph thrive in the absence of other bacteria.
That's why they are so persistent and prevailent in sterile hospital settings.
In natural settings these staph have to compete with other bacteria for resources.
Maybe instead of antibiotics we should br fighting staph with bacteria that hinder staph while being harmless to human physiology.
Recently researchers found a "giant" class of bacteria thats been among and inside us this whole time that we never identified simply becaise they are harmless to human physiology, but have been observed to seek out specific strains of bacteroa to consume as a resource.
some people use probiotics for this reason. keep the good flora ( bacteria) and it helps keep out the bad ones. good ones from things like natural unsweetened yogurt with active cultures. or use the capsules.
Bingo. As a species we’ve been losing bacteria every year. You can’t kill your way to homeostasis
Not dissimilar to using a bacteriophage. Either way your problem bacteria gets munched without any risk to you or unnecessary chemical intervention. But bacteriophage libraries aren't in line with how capitalism works, so they only exist in the former Soviet countries, of which Georgia is the most renowned for it.
@@snowbunny783 Yeah, same with allergies. Low level exposure is the best thing in a great many cases, it's when the balance is disturbed that problems arise.
Even bacteria have predators though, that's the simplest way to look at the issue, use the bacterias natural predators to wipe it out, they only focus on specific bacteria, so they're no danger to the rest of our cells. In that sense they're better than antibiotics which can exact a heavy till on the organs, as well as your natural fauna.
I can’t believe they cut his leg off without anesthesia. That’s just cruel and wrong.
Thats how it works in 3rd world Govt hospitals😁😁
I've had 5 surgeries due to MRSA being in the bone in my arm. I'm still not sure if it's all gone. MRSA is no joke 😞
Unclean!
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 huh? You can get MRSA from a simple paper cut. You can scrub yourself 1000 times a day and still get MRSA. MRSA is an equal opportunity infection.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Ass hat.
@Momma Bear amen
MRSA never goes away so ...
I remember a friend of mine. She was 14 beautiful, friendly, vibrant, fun. She caught meningitis and within a week, perhaps days she was gone. Unbelievable shock. She was just vibrant, beautiful just last week. Great job Frontline. Thanks.
There is a reason as to why you can't get antibiotics without prescription in EU. In India, for instance, they are sold like candy.
Here too in Indonesia... Until last few years you could buy antibiotics very easily in the pharmacy... The government has made stricter regulation now, but idk I think it's too late. My mother is one of the person who likes to buy and use antibiotics for everything. Even with stricter regulations, she can still find and buy some antibiotics. 😭
They only should be available by prescription, including in agriculture
Mexico too.
Bacteriophages are an upcoming alternatives of antibiotic resistance bacteria. I am personally using bacteriophages for my chronic infection and my reports are getting better. Most of us dont have knowledge of bacteriophages as it is confined to Russia and Georgia area and yeah after ww2 antibiotic paced up due to its broad spectrum effect.
Trump proudly boasted about those cutbacks as "saving" billions. This applied to a concerted effort to deal with Covid-19, too. "Penny wise, pound foolish" comes to mind. The market cannot solve all problems.
Let's go Brandon !!! I agree !!!
- JB
yeah, the same genius that suggested IV bleach and wanted a Nobel prize.
Free info is such a powerful gift.