Antibiotics giving rise to deadly bacteria.

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

This is serious news and very puzzling too. Antibiotics are encouraging a

harmful bacteria to flourish. This is comprehensible. But this bacteria is also

being found on people who are not on antibiotics. This is puzzling. What is

happening?

 

Sometime back I had forwarded an article which informed that while doctors

prescribe antibiotics to patients with gay abandon, they are wary of giving it

to their own kith and kin. Analyse that.

 

Read the article in the link provided please. This is an AP feature and

appears in NBC news.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

CDC: Deadly bacterial illness may be spreading Germ is becoming a regular

menace in hospitals and nursing homes ATLANTA - A deadly bacterial illness

commonly seen in people on antibiotics appears to be growing more common — even

in patients not taking such drugs, according to a report published Thursday in a

federal health journal.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10283908/

 

 

 

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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war

than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

-- General Omar Bradley

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Jagannath,

 

First understand that antibiotics will knock down your own immunce

system in the process of attacking a bacteria. (You have bacteria in

your stomach part of your own natural system). They also are usually

targeted to attack certain bacterias - not all. The main problem with

doctors over prescribing them and also with people frequently not

taking them as long as they are told to take them is that bacterias

can develop immunity towards the antibiotics. Thus overtime, the

antibiotic becomes ineffective for the strains it was developed to

fight against and scientists are continually having to come up with

new ones.

 

Now I just heard this news earlier today and haven't read more on it

yet but I think what this is about is a bacteria that is flouishing

because the antibiotic the person is taking is ineffective towards it,

and their suppressed immune system is providing it a great opportunity

to grow. Bacterias are contagious so it only makes sense that others

would get it as well.

 

As far as why doctors prescribing them willy nilly, what I have read

is that doctors continually state that they do so because their

patients expect a " pill " from them and tend to get irritated when told

to go home and eat well, rest, etc., there is nothing the doctor can

do for them. A doctor I know use to say " Treat a cold and it takes

seven days to get rid of it. Don't treat the cold and it will take

seven days to get rid of. " I'm not defending doctors but I know there

are people who want a pill for whatever ails them. Over the counter

cold medications is big business. My doctor won't prescribe without

doing blood work or culture, substantiating it is bacterial and not

viral.

 

I've never read about doctors not prescribing them to their own

children, but I would think that is about the fact that they know if

their kid has a viral infection, the antibiotic is not going to do any

good.

 

 

 

 

, Jagannath

Chatterjee <jagchat01> wrote:

>

> Dear Friends,

>

> This is serious news and very puzzling too. Antibiotics are

encouraging a harmful bacteria to flourish. This is comprehensible.

But this bacteria is also being found on people who are not on

antibiotics. This is puzzling. What is happening?

>

> Sometime back I had forwarded an article which informed that while

doctors prescribe antibiotics to patients with gay abandon, they are

wary of giving it to their own kith and kin. Analyse that.

>

> Read the article in the link provided please. This is an AP

feature and appears in NBC news.

>

> Regards,

> Jagannath.

>

> CDC: Deadly bacterial illness may be spreading Germ is becoming

a regular menace in hospitals and nursing homes ATLANTA - A deadly

bacterial illness commonly seen in people on antibiotics appears to be

growing more common — even in patients not taking such drugs,

according to a report published Thursday in a federal health journal.

>

> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10283908/

>

>

>

> We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on

the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We

know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that

we know about living.

> -- General Omar Bradley

>

>

>

> Shopping

> Find Great Deals on Gifts at Shopping

>

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Mary,

 

In all other systems the practitioners use the placebo, a false drug

to counter such situations and also as an aid to healing. Also I am

yet to come across a doctor these days who expresses his desire not

to medicate. I think the GP's used to do so earlier.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

, " Mary "

<mhysmith@e...> wrote:

>

> >

> As far as why doctors prescribing them willy nilly, what I have

read

> is that doctors continually state that they do so because their

> patients expect a " pill " from them and tend to get irritated when

told

> to go home and eat well, rest, etc., there is nothing the doctor

can

> do for them.