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What Is Pseudomonas Aeruginosa?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Greetings! Eric Bakker. Thanks for coming back, and tuning into my videos!

We're going to do a series on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, so we're going to talk about a bacteria that can cause a lot of problems in people. There's not a lot of this information on the internet. You'll find a little bit on Wikipedia, or a bit of information on different medical forums, but I've got a bit of clinical experience with Pseudomonas in working with gut related disease for many years, and I've performed, easily, five thousand stool tests now, so thousands of tests, and I'll tell you a bit about Pseudomonas.

This bug is a common bacteria. It's a found a lot in wet and marshy environments, and it can thrive in all kinds of crazy environments, even like contact lens solutions. It can be found in resuscitation equipment, in medical equipment. It can be found in hot tubs, and pools, so it can live in places, you know, the darnedest of places. 

They've even found it in gasoline, or fuel. It can live in that. It forms quite an impenetrable, slimy, moldy layer. When you go walking out in the bush, go walking somewhere there's a lot of water, and you see slime or mold sitting there on the surface of the soil, there could well be Pseudomonas actually incorporated into that slime or mold.

This bacteria is find in the human GI tract, but in extremely small amounts. We don't normally really see it in a high growth count in a stool test, but when we do find it there we find it with other associated factors, which I'll talk about in another video. 

It's a commonly occurring bacteria. It's an opportunistic bacteria, meaning it's waiting for the opportune moment, and it can cause serious infection and death. We find it typically in serious lung cases, like cystic fibrosis. We also find it commonly in burns, people who've got bad burns all over their body, also indwelling catheters, so people in wheelchairs, or infirm people who can't move much. You rely on catheters, and they're more prone to getting this kind of bacteria.

That's a bit about Pseudomonas. Check out my other videos, and I'll talk a bit more about the signs and symptoms, and the treatment, et cetera. Thank you for watching my video!

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