Cleansing nursing home residents' skin with antiseptic products and applying a nasal antiseptic reduced carriage of drug-resistant bacteria by 59 percent, while stepping up daily environmental cleaning of rooms produced no comparable reduction, according to a study published this week in JAMA Network Open.
The finding is a resource-allocation signal for long-term care facilities that cannot do everything at once. It is not a recommendation for families to buy antiseptic products or to attempt anything at home.
