A girl who I text from the nursing home unrelated to the situation gave me the heads up that my dad was isolated with an ESBL UTI. This would make sense. She said they would call me and update me.
Several hours passed and no one called so I called his nurse and she said yes, that he was isolated but not because of ESBL but because he has a UTI and one of his roommates is bedridden and one of his roommates uses the toilet so he needed to be isolated from them for 7-10 days and then he will be tested again and come right back.
I should have asked more questions at the time but it took me a minute to process my confusion. I usually get flustered in the phone. Does the reasoning make any sense to anyone? Which roommate might be the issue? I thought UTI's weren't contagious.
My father has a permanent catheter and is incontinent of the bowel so he gets UTI's frequently. This isolation is a first but it is a first that he has been in this room on this floor.
Thanks!
One of the things I read it can be spread by ANY bodily fluid that includes phlegm and equipment that may have become contaminated. So if anyone emptying a cath bag or helping clean him after toileting could possibly contaminate anything that happens to be in the room.
I think they are wise to be cautious.