Peroxide ingestion is dangerous to deadly.

High-concentration peroxide, sometimes promoted in alternative medicine circles for cleanses or as a so-called "natural cure," can lead to numerous life-threatening ailments and death itself, according to a paper published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Outcomes Following High Concentration Peroxide Ingestions"). "Ingesting high-concentration peroxide can cause embolisms affecting the cardiac, respiratory and neurological systems, leading to permanent disability or death," said lead study author Benjamin Hatten, MD, MPH, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colo. "Though touted by the alternative and complementary medicine communities as 'super water,' peroxide should not be ingested for any reason. Because there are also industrial uses, some ingestions have been accidental because of its resemblance to water." Dr. Hatten examined 10 years of poison control records for high-concentration peroxide ingestion (concentration strength of 10 percent or greater). Almost 14 percent (13.9 percent) of reported cases had embolic events and 6.8 percent of cases either died or exhibited continued disability. Life-threatening ailments associated with high-concentration peroxide ingestion include seizure, altered mental status, respiratory distress, stroke, pulmonary embolism and heart attack. Patients treated early with hyperbaric oxygen had improved outcomes. Caustic injuries were rare and routine endoscopy was not beneficial.

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Food revolution, lets eat like nomads..

Change is the only constant thing and as the nomads continually change,moving from place to place to feed their animals; an entrepreneur has decided to build on this experience to change our eating habits. Welcome to food revolution,eating like nomads. According to CNN, Selassie Atadika wants to change the way you eat. The UN worker-turned-chef is on course to revolutionize African cuisine through her new movement: the nomadic dining experience, which sees her encourages diners to ditch restaurants and move meals outside. "It's about creating experiences in different locations in a way similar to my lifestyle working with the UN, but also in the context of Africa ... the Nomadic people," Midunu ("Come Let's Eat"), Atadika's company, hosts Nomadic dinners every other month where diners can enjoy a four course meal in various locations across Accra.continue

Agribusiness: Making money leasing farm machinery to farmers.

Farm machinery is part and parcel of a successful agribusiness but many farmers shun the equipment due to high costs. Entrepreneurs can cash in by investing in these farm equipment and then lease out to farmers for a fee.

For livestock farmers, depending on the size of investment, tractors, chaff-cutters, mowers, sprayers, forage harvesters and balers are some of the machinery to consider as they help in proper management and feeding of the livestock.

 Creative and  innovations to boost farming productivity is encouraged as it also helps grow the country’s economy in different ways.  Emphasis on irrigation to reduce dependence on rain-fed farming should also be of core interest of the in the face of limited farming land and idle land deemed un-farmable due to the prevailing dry conditions. 

 In crop farming, tractors, ploughs, planters, tillers and harrowers, among others, are essential as they facilitate better farming. continue

Doubling farm income with irrigation in India.

The finance minister has reiterated that the government is committed to doubling of farm incomes within five years. This is heartening, although we are not sure what is the base-year income one is taking to double. But deciphering his strategy from allocation of funds, three things stand out: one, irrigation seems to be a prime INSTRUMENT. The total funds from the Centre for irrigation would amount to more than Rs 32,000 crore. Second, interest subvention on credit also amounts to Rs 15,000 crore; and, thirdly, insurance premium subsidy is continue

Antibiotic restriction, not deep cleaning, appears to have halted C. difficile epidemic.

Antibiotic restriction, not deep cleaning, appears to have halted C. difficile epidemic according to new research.Widespread overuse of fluoroquinolone antibiotics like ciprofloxacin appears to have been the primary driver of the Clostridium difficile epidemic in the U.K., according to new research. Investigators concluded that restriction of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, rather than deep cleaning and other infection control measures, led to significant reductions in the incidence of C. difficile infections. Emergency measures such as ‘deep cleaning’ and careful antibiotic prescribing were introduced and numbers of C. difficile infections gradually fell by 80% but no one was sure precisely why. The study shows that the C. difficile epidemic was an unintended consequence of intensive use of an antibiotic class, fluoroquinolones, and control was achieved by specifically reducing use of this antibiotic class, because only the C. difficile bugs that were resistant to fluoroquinolones went away.” To determine whether it was antibiotic restriction or hospital infection control measures that achieved the significant decline in C. difficile infections (CDIs) after 2006, The study evaluated regional and national data on CDI incidence and antimicrobial prescriptions from 1998 to 2014. They also evaluated whole genome sequences from 4,045 national and international C. difficile isolates to estimate the incidence of CDIs caused by strains resistant or susceptible to fluoroquinolone. They hypothesized that CDIs caused by fluoroquinolone-resistant strains would have declined faster if the outbreak was stopped by antibiotic restriction, and that secondary transmitted infections of both resistant and susceptible strains would decline at the same rate if the outbreak was stopped by infection control measures. First, they determined that prescribing of fluoroquinolone and cephalosporin strongly correlated with CDI incidence compared with overall antibiotic prescribing continue

Exposure to patients with influenza persists despite hospital surveillance.

According to study results published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, a large community hospital in Toronto failed to diagnose one in six patients with influenza until they had exposed other patients and health care workers for more than 24 hours. Strategies to reduce transmission of influenza in hospitals include vaccination, the exclusion of ill staff and visitors, adherence to good hand hygiene routines, screening to detect influenza illness in patients, additional precautions used to care for patients with influenza, and antiviral agent despite implementation of such strategies, health care-acquired influenza and influenza outbreaks continue to occur. The researchers assessed the frequency, risk factors, transmission and exposure associated with influenza in hospitalized patients at North York General Hospital, a 426-bed community teaching hospital with active surveillance, in Toronto, Canada. They collected prospective data from consenting patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza admitted from Oct. 1 to April 30 during the 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 influenza seasons. Upon admission, only 557 of 661 patients with influenza were placed on additional precautions. The investigators observed that out of 104 patients presenting with influenza symptoms after admission, 47 were nosocomial cases and 57 were community-onset cases. After reviewing medical charts, they found that 78 cases detected after admission exposed 143 roommates. Among those tested for influenza after exposure, no roommates of community-onset cases, and two of 16 roommates of nosocomial cases, were diagnosed with influenza, the researchers reported. The researchers said that out of 637 influenza-positive patients, 25% and 57% met the definitions of influenza-like illness established by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the CDC, respectively, and 70.3% met the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC) definition of febrile respiratory illness. Only 13%, 23% and 34% of the 56 patients with community-onset influenza discovered after admission met the PHAC, CDC and PIDAC classifications, respectively. Exposure to patients with influenza persisted in the hospital despite an intensive program to reduce the exposure of health care workers and other patients,because exposure to patients can occur prior to symptom onset. Patients with atypical symptoms, emphasis should be on optimal hand hygiene and vaccination of health care workers is a necessary adjunct to routine and additional precautions if patients and workers are to be best protected against influenza.