Disinfecting Hospitals and Nursing Home Facilities

Be one of the first facilities in your area to have a 0% HA-MRSA rate!

With the emergence of what the news media calls "The Super Bugs" hospitals, outpatient surgical units and nursing home facilities have been forced to make some very difficult choices regarding patient and worker safety. The need to reduce the level of fungus, spores, bacteria and viruses in there facilities is critical. Commonly used disinfectants like chlorine bleach products and ozone are destructive and largely ineffective at safe concentrations. Other disinfectants have been rendered nearly useless because of resistant bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other resistant and hard to kill bacteria, spores, fungi and viruses..

Over use of antibiotic drugs has been widely blamed for the emergence of these Super Bugs and regardless of the real reason, they are here and they are infecting patients and health care workers alike. Once a Super Bug actually infects a person, treating the infection becomes a mater of life and death because even the newest and most aggressive antibiotic drugs are marginally effective.

We at OdorXit® products are offering an alternative to drug therapy. If it were possible to truly remove all of the Super Bugs, fungi, spores, viruses and bacteria form health care facilities it would not be necessary to develop and use stronger and stronger antibiotics to prevent and cure infections because they would not exist.

Actually attaining this goal is a real challenge and will require the total commitment of all the staff of health care facilities. Practicing good hygiene like hand washing or sanitizing between patient contacts, disinfecting patent and staff clothing, and disinfecting the plant are all commonly accepted and currently implemented practices. The problem is that the practices are ineffective because the disinfectants used to accomplish the goal are ineffective against the resistant germs.

These are serious claims, and they are supported by the statistics (as sparse and skewed as they are). No facility wants to admit that they have a MRSA problem. In fact, doing so will seriously hurt profits and cause a media frenzy of the worst possible kind. In spite of the reduced admissions, patient days, length of stay and Nosocomial infections, the Nosocomial infections per patient-days are increasing. In fact, very recent information indicates that MRSA and CA-MRAS have escaped from the health care forum to threaten the community at large.

So, what is the solution? It's really too simple. The chemistry of chlorine dioxide has been known since the early 1800's, when it was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy.

It has been used widely in the pulp and paper industries as a bleaching agent for over 100 years, and used as a disinfectant and oxidant since the 1950's . The liquid form was registered by the USEPA in 1967 as a disinfectant and sanitizer and more recently has been used as a disinfectant for drinking water.

The only catch with chlorine dioxide is that the gas can not be compressed safely and therefore can not be transported easily or safely like chlorine and chlorine bleaching product. In fact, it is illegal to transport chlorine dioxide gas.

Since the late 1990's efforts have been made to develop a product that would produce chlorine dioxide from dry components. The major component being sodium chlorite. This is a particularly nasty chemical that can cause burns if touched or inhaled. Some very innovative people have figured out how to keep the dry chemicals contained in a package away from users and still allow water vapor to enter the package and chlorine dioxide to escape in a controlled and consistent way.

This product now exists and has been registered with the USEPA for use in the USA This product, available from OdorXit products, is offered in 5, 10 and 25 grams packages that will produce low but very effective levels of chlorine dioxide for 20 to 30 days. Additionally, the 15 and 25 gram versions are available in a format that will produce the same amount of chlorine dioxide in 20 to 30 hours.

The EPA has not approved the use of this product in constantly inhabited areas, but the definition of constantly inhabited areas is not clear and subject to change.

So how can we use this product in the health care arena? It's really quite simple.

Treating an office, lab, recovery room, patient room or operating room only takes 1 to 3 hours with the fast release version of the product if the ventilation system shut down during treatment. Introduction of a small circulating fan speeds the process considerably.

Hallways are not constantly inhabited areas so they can be treated with long term low levels of chlorine dioxide gas produced using the appropriately sized and placed extended release product.

Clothing can be very effectively treated by simply hanging the garment in a closet or locker with a 5 or 10 gram slow release packet attached to the wall or bottom of a shelf with the self adhesive pouch supplied with the product.

New and innovative packaging of hand creams, mouthwash, body wash and similar product that use the 2 component chlorine dioxide generating material are becoming available to kill bacteria, viruses, fungus and spores. Contact OdorXit Product for more information on these very new and innovative products.

If you are interested in the technical stuff or just want to know more about this increasable product, there is lots more information about OdorXit ClO2 on this web site and the internet in general.

Don't wait until you have a staph outbreak to act! You really can disinfect your facility with out people in HasMat suites and without the mess and damage caused by chlorine bleach products. Using currently available disinfectants, you can distroy as much as 99.99% of the bacteria and other germs. ClO2 gas distroys them all. Do your own tests to prove it. Be the one of the first hospitals in your area to have a 0% CA-MRSA rate.

If you have questions, call the experts at 1-877-636-7948.