Mosquito Infestation!

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I just heard the most disgusting news from my best friend. There is a mosquito infestation (in fact, it seems like a plague of MANY things such as gnats, mice and flies) on our med-surg units and one of the mosquitos actually laid their larvae in a trach patient's stoma and the poor patient got so sick that he had to be sent to ICU.

I have been feeling like I had to puke since I heard this mess. It represents poor nursing care to me because it must be that no one took the time to change the dressings, clean or suction this patient or even cover the stoma properly for larvae to make a home in this area. I know they can't control the mosquitos, but they sure as hell could have at least observed the patients. I say this because the particular floor I am speaking of is known for their nurses sitting around arguing and avoiding work all day (I used to go there for agency work sometimes). YUCK!!

pagan, i would seriously call the public health dept and report this.

this is frightening and dangerous.

someone bigger than your infection dept, needs to be overseeing this...like yesterday.

leslie

Just to play the skeptic...

Really? Layed eggs in someone's stoma? Flies I could maybe believe but mosquitoes? I have no doubt that a ward can be taken over by insects but I have to admit that I doubt the possibility of a mosquito laying eggs in a stoma.

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
pagan, i would seriously call the public health dept and report this.

this is frightening and dangerous.

someone bigger than your infection dept, needs to be overseeing this...like yesterday.

leslie

When I get back to work tomorrow (YUCK), I'll see what is going on.

Just to play the skeptic...

Really? Layed eggs in someone's stoma? Flies I could maybe believe but mosquitoes? I have no doubt that a ward can be taken over by insects but I have to admit that I doubt the possibility of a mosquito laying eggs in a stoma.

This is second hand information that I received while on vacation, so, I don't know for myself about the actual laying of the eggs in the trach, but I know that the place is swarming with mosquitos...my other friends have been bitten more often than they are comfortable with. And, I saw the gnats myself when I went to see a friend of mine for lunch before I left.

Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

Yuk, Yuk, and GAG :eek:

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