Show In Newborn Nursery Staphylococcus positive is an ubiquitous Twenty percent of persons in a community are persistent carriers of positive Another percent are sporadic AS HIGH as 40 percent of the hospital personnel are persistent staphylococcus These hospital organisms tend to be resistant to the commonly used The anterior is the most frequent site of but the organism can reside in the or Chronic non-infectious skin lesions are also a favorite area for colonization and IT IS not surprising that staphylococcus positive illness is a common problem in newborn Nurses frequently are intermittent if not chronic Once the newborn infants are capable of colonizing the other newborns in the These colonizing strains vary widely in their Some can produce severe infection and occasionally and But many of them rarely produce clinical disease in a colonized For this it is and frequently to exclude intermittent carriage nurses from the scrupulous with with hexachlorophene baths on admission to and discharge from the nursery should be used to minimize the staphylococcal infant Topical treatment with of the anterior of nurse carriers is always IF AN epidemic does prompt investigation and control should be instituted The Center for Disease states that the occurrence of two or more concurrent cases of staphylococcal skin disease related to the or a single case of breast in a nursing mother or infant is presumptive evidence of an Any outbreak should be promptly reported to the Bureau of Disease Utah State Division of The following measures are recommended when an epidemic ALL INFANTS with disease should be i and 2 with 3 percent hexachlorophene between handling each infant should be strictly A rotational or cohort system should be All well babies born during a period no longer than 48 hours are admitted to a single nursery until it is Babies born in the next 48 hours are admitted to a second The first is emptied and cleaned before another cohort is PROPHYLACTIC bathing of healthy newborns with three percent hexachlorophene on admission to and discharge from the nursery followed by thorough rinsing with tap water is All infants and hospital personnel who deal with the infants should have nose Infants should also have umbilical All carriers should be treated with topical DURING THE all nurses who have a positive nose culture should be removed from the nursery until they have a negative Surveillance of infants should continue for fourteen days beyond |