Klebsiella - treatment rarely helps

We, living in the XXI century, have a new danger. Spread the killer bacteria, which are invulnerable to antibiotics. Among them - the Klebsiella microbe, a kind of biological "werewolf". She can live for years in the intestines, on the skin and on the mucous membranes, without posing a threat. Klebsiella is normally needed to maintain a healthy intestinal flora. But as soon as a person's immunity weakens (for example, after the transferred infectious diseases or due to infection), the bacterium goes on the attack.

Since Klebsiella is not dangerous in all its forms, it is called "conditionally pathogenic". But the "peaceful" bacterium is transformed into a causative agent of diseases, causing severe inflammatory processes. And then the most serious problem that the Klebsiella poses to doctors is treatment.

The mechanism of action of the antibiotic on the conditionally pathogenic flora resembles a kind of inoculation. The microbe "ill" in an easy form. But it does not die, but "recovers" - mutates, changes its nature. It is converted into a so-called strain. The "renewed" bacterium is no longer afraid of a familiar drug and can reproduce with impunity in its pathogenic form.

But really useful microorganisms living in the intestine next to the Klebsiella and unable to produce strains from the antibiotic die. But they are responsible for digestion. There is a dangerous disease - dysbiosis. In place of the dead flora in connection with the low immunity of the body, deadly strains come: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, enterococci, staphylococcus, Proteus, etc. In the same row with them - klebsiella, the treatment of which does not give proper guarantees.

Today, a mutant bacterium requires increased attention in the following cases:

• Klebsiella pneumonia
• Klebsiella pneumonia in the gastrointestinal tract
• Klebsiella in newborns

Klebsiella pneumonia is extremely dangerous. Nonspecific (atypical) pneumonia, it causes rather rare, but the mortality from this disease is very high - from 40 to 90%.

In the gastrointestinal tract, the microbe causes acute and chronic diseases. When they say "klebsiella", the treatment is most often selected against this variety. It also affects the mucous membrane of the eyelids, the membranes, joints. If it causes sepsis, then fatal.

Klebsiella at the baby is the most terrible threat. Mortality among infected babies is high, treatment does not guarantee success. Infection is possible during the intrauterine period.

Klebsiella is passed through food (including bait in the maternity home), through unwashed hands. Infected by eating badly processed meat, fruit, milk.

How to treat klebsiella? There are so-called bacteriophages - drugs, which, according to the plan, must kill it. But today they are ineffective. A more correct way of treatment is to increase immunity, and for this - to take special drugs, consisting of a mixture of beneficial bacteria, previously destroyed by an antibiotic.

In recent years, the attention of doctors to the problem of Klebsiella has been growing, although there is no agreed opinion. Quite a large number of doctors are inclined to minimize the urgency and danger of the situation. But the facts do not speak in their favor. For the past 5 years, for example, only in Russia and Israel the number of infected in hospitals and those killed by klebsiella has reached such figures that the data began to be hushed up at the level of ministries.

Do not under any circumstances do self-medication if you suspect a werewolf microbe in a child or at home! Call the pediatrician to the baby, and go yourself to the infectious disease specialist. Analyzes identify klebsiella unmistakably.

And then everything will depend on the responsibility, competence of doctors and the will of the case. Klebsiella, whose treatment is not sufficiently developed today, will undoubtedly be defeated in time. However, at present it is too early to talk about such a victory.