sorefootsophie

Shirley, Do you mean VRE Vancomycin resistant enterococcus. This is spread usually in hospitals and lives in genital tracts etc. (and I THINK digestive tracts as well...but not sure) If a patient gets VRE, they are usually isolated. I don't know about the treatment....I didn't think there was one as Vancomycin doesn't work anymore (hence the name). My Dad had VRE and MRSA (Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) which he caught in the hospital. He was put in an isolated room after he got it from another patient (probably patient-nurse-patient contact)and unfortunately died without ever getting better. It was a horrible lonely time (9 months)! He told me they had put him in that room to die! He couldn't get out of bed and the hospital meal delivery staff wouldn't go in the room..they left his meal tray outside the door!!!!! He would have starved if we hadn't been there to get the food to him...as it was, it was cold a lot of times! We had to wear gowns, gloves and masks...it APPARENTLY doesn't harm healthy people but healthy people can be carriers! They wanted him to go to an assisted living place but that became a viscious circle because no one would take him because of the VRE and MRSA that he should never have had! The name in your title...I don't know of that....