Candida auris
is a type of yeast that can cause severe illness and spreads easily among patients in healthcare facilities.
C. auris can cause a range of infections from superficial (skin) infections to more severe, life-threatening infections, such as bloodstream infections.
C. auris is often resistant to antifungal medications, meaning the fungus develops the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill it. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow.
Resistant infections can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat.
(https://www.cdc.gov/candida-auris/about/index.html)
Risk factors
C. auris mostly affects patients with severe underlying medical conditions and those requiring complex medical care and invasive medical devices. Invasive medical devices are often necessary but create pathways for C. auris to get into the body. Examples include:
Breathing tubes
Feeding tubes
Catheters in a vein
Urinary catheters
Not considered a risk for healthy people
Healthy people, those who are not hospitalized or severely ill, generally do not get C. auris.
Most of the time, it is unnecessary to screen or test healthcare providers or family members.
How it spreads
Patients who are infected and patients who are colonized with C. auris can spread it onto surfaces and objects like bedrails, doorknobs, and blood pressure cuffs. C. auris can survive on surfaces and objects for a long time and spread to other patients who can become sick.
C. auris usually remains on a patient's skin or body sites for a long time, whether or not they ever have symptoms. They will still be able to spread C. auris.
Suggested Medication is:
Generic Name(S): magnesium hydroxide
Also known as Milk Of Magnesia
Magnesium hydroxide can decrease the absorption of other drugs.
And it is believe to that “The hydroxide ion is naturally produced from water by the self-ionization reaction:[2]
H3O+ + OH− ⇌ 2H2O
The equilibrium constant for this reaction, defined as
Kw = [H+][OH−][note 1]
has a value close to 10−14 at 25 °C, so the concentration of hydroxide ions in pure water is close to 10−7 mol∙dm−3, to satisfy the equal charge constraint.”
Reference:
(https://www.cdc.gov/candida-auris/about/index.html)
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