Before antibiotics, infections were lanced and drained. Because of the abuses of antibiotics (especially in the United States), this practice is coming back as people are contracting Methicillin-resistant bacterial infections. These Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are becoming the most commonly seen soft-tissue infection in some emergency rooms. These findings were published in the Aug. 17 New England Journal of Medicine.

With the rapid rise in Type II diabetes, this issue is of increasing importance. Diabetics already have poor wound healing and diabetics and the obese also have poor immune system function. As this group increases in number, the burden on the emergency care system is going to stretch more thin than it already is.

While dietary improvements won't ensure immunity from any bacteria or virus, it will improve immune system funciton and has been shown to also have a substantial benefit on wound healing.

Hosptials are cautioned to take steps to reduce transmission of these dangerous bacteria.

You might think there's some magic-bullet waiting in the back wings…

 There isn't one.