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 Keeping your home clean, hygienic, and odor-free can seem like a full-time job, especially if you're sticking to the CDC's rigorous guidelines regarding the best ways to clean and disinfect your home. First, you have to find the best cleaning products that will keep bacteria at bay, and then there's the constant rotation of mopping, sweeping, dusting, and vacuuming to keep up with — not to mention deep-cleaning projects and fine detailing.

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria

This post is of great value to all of us as we can see how the Immune System identifies invading bacteria.

 Never-before-seen images of mouse immune system proteins and bacterial bits reveal an inspection strategy that identifies pathogens.


Newswise — The body’s homeland security unit is more thorough than any airport checkpoint. For the first time, scientists have witnessed a mouse immune system protein frisking a snippet of an invading bacterium. The inspection is far more extensive than researchers imagined: the immune system protein, similar to those in humans, scans the bacterial protein in six different ways, ensuring correct identification.

“This was very surprising,” says Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Eva Nogales, a structural biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. “The immune system protein uses many protein parts, including some of previously unknown function.”

Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Turn Into Superbugs

How Bacteria Becomes Superbug

Our lives are threatened by bacteria and they are lurking everywhere.  Unfortunately, Antibiotics no longer kill them off as we have become immune in some cases.

This becomes dangerous when Bacteria invade Antibiotics and become Superbugs which are so hard to treat.

It pays to be aware of this and the article and video go on to explain in more detail.

New Approach Tests the Strength of Immunity

New Approach Tests the Strength of Immunity

 Great work is being done by Thomas Jefferson University who have developed a new method to test the strength of the immune response to certain antigens!


Newswise — (PHILADELPHIA) -- The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires causing allergy or autoimmune reactions. Compounding the problem, not every immune reaction is equal – sometimes a necessary reaction is not strong enough or at times it’s too strong. Now Thomas Jefferson University researchers have developed a new way to determine the strength of an immune response to a particular antigen. The results, published in Nature Communications on October27th, could be used to help doctors personalize immune-modulating therapies – like cancer immunotherapies, or immunosuppressive therapies used in organ transplantation – more effectively. 

Simple And Natural Home Remedies For Bronchitis

Home Remedies For Bronchitis

Winter is a few months away for us in the Northern Hemisphere and with it often flu and colds which can develop into Bronchitis or even Pneumonia.  Here are a few remedies to ease these ailments.  Bronchitis triggered my Asthma all those years ago so I know how important it is to take care and treat the symptoms shown below.


Bronchitis is actually an inflammation that happens in the bronchial tubes located between the nose and the lungs.  The virus, bacteria, or colds can cause bronchitis, with symptoms including coughing with mucus, chest pain, fatigue, muscle aches, nasal congestion, difficulty breathing, and fever.

Bronchitis happens mostly after the flu or a cold, when your immune system and resistance are low, resulting in a lung irritation. So, what can you do? In most cases, people reach for over-the-counter medicines, but that doesn’t mean that home remedies for bronchitis cannot help. In fact, some of the “medicines” on the list are even more potent and powerful than traditional medicine. It is just a matter of belief.

Powerful, Natural Antibiotic To Make Yourself

Powerful, Natural Antibiotic

This is worth a try:


If you don’t trust chemicals  that are sold as remedies and you’re looking for a powerful antibiotic, natural and very healthy, this is your recipe:

Infections in the body should not always be treated with different antibiotics. Nowadays you can find many natural based remedies and try to kill your infections by them.

This remedy is easy to prepare at home and rejuvenates your body, making it work flawlessly.

For the body to function flawlessly, it’s essential to have a strong immune system. Say goodbye to inflammations and infections, and trust me that this remedy will protect you against any infection and bacteria.

The Antibiotic Apocalypse Advances

The Antibiotic Apocalypse Advances

 This report makes grim reading, but whether we like it or not, antibiotics have lost their power somewhat in healing infections...............

• Bacteria can quickly develop extreme resistance to antibiotics, surviving antibiotics at a dose 1,000 times higher than they could initially survive in a matter of 11 days
• Application of manure from swine CAFOs can spread drug-resistant bacteria and other viral pathogens into watersheds, thereby threatening human health. Drug-resistant CAFO bacteria are also spread by winds
• Tens of thousands of illnesses and deaths from drug-resistant infections go uncounted as federal and state agencies do not systematically track them. This suggests the problem is FAR greater than currently thought

Deadly Bacteria Share Weapons to Outsmart Antibiotics


 This post caught my eye as the bacteria we are surrounded with are getting ever more deadly and difficult to  destroy:

Deadly Bacteria Share Weapons to Outsmart Antibiotics

Newswise — Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance mechanisms to combat even the most effective antibiotics. Each year in the United States over 23,000 people die as a result of bacterial infections that have no treatment options, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Infections with antibiotic-resistance bacteria are extremely difficult to treat, requiring costly or toxic medications that do not always work. Scientists are constantly working to understand the mechanisms bacteria use to outsmart antibiotics and develop resistance. These mechanisms include metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), enzymes produced by bacteria that can bind to and inactivate antibiotics. Enzymes like MBLs are one way bacteria are defying all available tools and becoming antibiotic resistant.

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Possess Natural Ability to Become Vulnerable to Antibiotics

 With bacteria becoming an everpresent challenge we must seek ways of killing off their power.

“If we can identify ways to force the entire population of drug-resistant bacteria to undergo this change, we stand a better chance of fighting the growing problem of antibiotic resistance,” said first author Brent Weber, a graduate student. “Instead of looking for new antibiotics, we could restore bacteria’s vulnerability to antibiotics we already have.”

 Drug-Resistant Bacteria Possess Natural Ability to Become Vulnerable to Antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance

Important information for the future of antibiotic resistance.

  
By 2050, antibiotic resistance is estimated to kill 10 million people annually, worldwide. At present, at least 23,000 Americans die as a direct result of an antibiotic-resistant infection each year

• The routine use of antibiotics in livestock is a major driver of drug-resistance. Commonly used herbicides also promote antibiotic resistance by priming pathogens to more readily become resistant to antibiotics
• DNA from antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in cattle yards are also airborne; in addition to contaminated water and meat, this is yet another route of exposure for animals and humans alike

Healthy Digestive System

A healthy digestive system is key to optimum well-being.  So this article is a great way to remind us how important it is to maintain this.


Wishing everyone a happy weekend!
Warmly,
Adele Bantle

Healthy Digestive System

The Dangers of Drinking from Plastic Bottles

 We need to be aware of the dangers plastic containers pose to our health.   The article highlights these dangers.  Plastic Bottles and Cans can be a health hazard.  For instance recently there was a story of a woman who drank from a can and died a few hours later.  Bacteria are lurking everywhere and the good old drinking glass is by far the best to use for liquid intake.  It pays to be aware of the dangers.

Warmly
Adele Bantle

 Dangers of Drinking from Plastic Bottles

E-cigarettes May Boost Resistance of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

 Just recently there was an article about E-cigarettes and Mental health.  Here we have another finding of a different sort.  this time the danger is that they build up a resistance to drugs which then makes it difficult to kill bacteria. A paragraph from the article shows us just how dangerous smoking E-cigarettes can be.


“The virulence of MRSA is increased by e-cigarette vapor,” said lead investigator Laura E. Crotty Alexander, MD, VA researcher and assistant professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at UCSD. Exposure to e-cigarette vapor increased the virulence of the bacteria, helping MRSA escape killing by antimicrobial peptides

E-cigarettes May Boost Resistance of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Soil Bacteria May Provide Clues to Curbing Antibiotic Resistance

Soil Bacteria May Provide Clues to Curbing Antibiotic Resistance

Newswise — Drug-resistant bacteria annually sicken 2 million Americans and kill at least 23,000. A driving force behind this growing public health threat is the ability of bacteria to share genes that provide antibiotic resistance.

Bacteria that naturally live in the soil have a vast collection of genes to fight off antibiotics, but they are much less likely to share these genes, a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed. The findings suggest that most genes from soil bacteria are not poised to contribute to antibiotic resistance in infectious bacteria.

Bacteria on Toys, Books, Cribs,

The fact that bacteria remains on objects for long periods would account for people getting infections where they are not aware from where they contracted them.  Hygiene is one of the most important issues surrounding children and patients as well as the population in general.  The viruses we pick up each year are so numerous now that extra vigilance is of utmost importance.  The spread of the Hospital MRSA is in itself totally alarming because this has spread so rapidly and is so difficult to treat.

Toys, Books, Cribs Harbor Bacteria for Long Periods

Please be vigilant!

To your good health!

Adele Bantle
International Style Coach