It’s that time of year again.......... no I don’t mean Christmas, I mean the time for all bugs to crawl out from under the whatever stone they were hiding all summer and start attacking people and ruining their days – or holidays for some.
Yeah I mean the viruses and bacteria and whatnot..... all that crap ... they are very smart, they know that this is the time for them to attack, when the days are short and nights are long, it is cold outside so people tend to sit indoors in front of the telly, eat junk food and don't spend much time being active and getting fit. This is the time when people’s immune system is at the weakest and they know it, and they attack!!
One of the ones on the rise is the vomiting bug – or as the professionals also call it - the Norovirus.
The first sign of Norovirus is usually a sudden sick feeling followed by forceful vomiting and watery diarrhoea.
Some people may also have a raised temperature (over 38oC), headaches, stomach cramps, and aching limbs. Symptoms usually appear one to two days after you become infected but they can start sooner. Most people make a full recovery within a couple of days.
It is on the rise so much so that hospitals are closing their doors to visitors, and not allowing them to visit their friends and relatives for fear of bringing in the infection.
Another nasty on the rise is a whooping cough – or as the experts would call it - Pertussis. It is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the lungs and airways. The condition usually begins with a persistent dry and irritating cough that progresses to intense bouts of coughing. These are followed by a distinctive 'whooping' noise, which is how the condition gets its name. Quite a few people got infected with this bug. It is specially dangerous for little babies, so much so that if a baby gets it its life is in danger. A few babies died recently (in the past year) from this condition so the NHS has decided to now vaccinate every pregnant woman against whooping cough between the 28th – 38th week of pregnancy.
NHS got quite a lot on their plate these days ... fighting viruses like the two I mentioned above, and some more like swine flu, or MRSA, urinary tract infection.... hard to fight this when they are short of money, so often they fail.. There have been many cases of neglect of care for elderly, for diagnosing several conditions, like ADHD (Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder - which in my opinion is not even a real condition, it is lazy parents not bothering to keep their kids under control and blame it on some crap condition and dope their kids up with pills)
NHS is also failing in their money management...... they do unnecessary procedures, like performing the pre-op checks before the patient even receives the surgery date..... apparently the results are valid for 3 months, now that also makes no sense, they screen you for infections which you can contract at any time, yet the results are valid for 3 months?!? So a couple of weeks after you had the checks are clear of infection you contract it then you go to hospital and infect the others........... no wonder they are failing to fight the infections on boards.
Or what they do..... the results run out of time and they have to repeat the tests cause it has been more than 3 months and the patient still did not get the surgery..... so it just literally flashing £££ down the drain..... how smart is that?!? No wonder they are short of cash if this is how they waste it.....
Well.......... guess I was going on for long enough, hope I didn’t bore you too much.
Feel free to comment on all this. What do you think? Got any other experiences with any of these issues?
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