The End of Antibiotics

[Guest guest]

The End of Antibiotics Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by: Mark

Sircus Ac., OMD

http://www.naturalnews.com/022892.html

Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst

things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end,

they have made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong

super bugs that are resistant to all the antibiotics doctors have at

their disposal. When we look at how deep the rabbit hole goes with

antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls. Antibiotics have fulfilled

their anti–biotic anti-life role leaving a long trail of death and

suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever,

pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio. All were in

decline for several decades before the introduction of antibiotics or

vaccines - Dr. Lawrence .

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking antibiotics,

they get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal bacterial balance

has been lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and yeast infections thus

will eventually be seen as a major cause of cancer since more and more

oncologists are seeing yeast and fungal infections as an integral part of

cancer and its cause. With upwards of 40 percent of all cancers thought

to be involved with and caused by infections, the subject of antibiotics

and the need for something safer, more effective and life serving is

imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted " post

antibiotic era " in which common infections are frequently

untreatable - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al. (Harvard School of Public

Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we

need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi that

kills other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature, these

substances help some

microbes survive

by limiting the multiplication of other microbes that share the same

environment. Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing)

microbes without severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs

but there does not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that

do not do damage. Dr. Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her book

Poisonous Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and

Diabetes?' We are now beginning to question the role of antibiotics as a

cause of cancer since they do lead to pathogen overgrowth especially in

the area of yeast and fungi. Woollams writes, " It is estimated

that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection. The

primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take

antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics. "

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the use

of antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

In one study the increased risk was small, and the importance of the link

has been played down by UK breast-cancer experts, but the findings add

weight to recent studies that have found links between antibiotics and

other diseases. In the past few years, heavy antibiotic use has been

linked to the inflammatory bowel disorder, Crohn's disease, and to

children developing allergies such as Hay fever and asthma. And as we

shall see below, antibiotics play a hidden role in

autism and other

neurological diseases.

The

Journal of the American Medical Association has reported a study on

10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics in a 17

year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of breast cancer as

those that took none at all. Even women taking just one had a statistical

risk increase to 1.5 times.

The consequences of resistance in some bacteria can be measured as

increases in the term and magnitude of morbidity, higher rates of

mortality, and greater costs of hospitalization for patients infected

with resistant bacteria - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are undiscriminating: in addition to " bad

bacteria, " they also kill healthy bacteria which normally live in

the intestines and the vagina, and which are a necessary part of the

indigenous flora to keep the body healthy. When the " good "

bacteria are killed with antibiotics, then yeast, which is part of the

normal flora of the body, can begin to overgrow because the antibiotics

have altered the body's healthy terrain (internal ecological balance)

allowing the yeast to hyperproliferate and cause many far-reaching, toxic

symptoms.

But modern medicine so far continues to believe that antibiotics have

played an important role in staving off

bacterial

infections since Fleming first discovered them in 1927.

Many doctors are

finally beginning to see that the effectiveness of these so-called

miracle drugs has waned as some of the very bacteria they are meant to

control have been mutating into new forms that don't respond to

treatment. Many medical experts blame this phenomenon on both the misuse

and overuse of antibiotics in recent years in both human medicine and in

agriculture.

According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write

2,645,000 antibiotic

prescriptions

every week. Internists prescribe 1,416,000 per week. This works out to

211,172,000 prescriptions annually in the

United

States, just for these two specialties. Pediatricians prescribe over

$500 million worth of antibiotics annually just for one condition, ear

infections. Yet topical povidone iodine (PVP-I) is as effective as

topical ciprofloxacin, with a superior advantage of having no in vitro

drug resistance and the added benefit of reduced cost of

treatment.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical

Association, taking properly prescribed medical drugs was listed as the

third leading cause of death in the U.S. Antibiotics were listed in this

category because antibiotics can be deadly.

A 17-year-old St Margaret's College student in New Zealand has exposed

multiple antibiotic-resistant bugs in fresh chicken sold in supermarkets?

Jane Millar's discovery of a range of resistant bacteria in

chickens that

could compromise antibiotic treatment in humans is an important finding

that the bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics not used in

the poultry

industry but important for treating serious infections in

humans.

We can create resistance to medically important antibiotics by using

antibiotics that are presumably safe in agriculture - Jane

Millar.

Jane bought six fresh chickens - free-range, barn-raised and organic –

from a supermarket. She took samples from each bird and grew bug

colonies, which she used to test different antibiotics. Apramycin is an

antibiotic used sparingly by the New Zealand

poultry industry to

treat infections. The bacteria of two chickens tested resistant to

apramycin. They also proved resistant to another two antibiotics from the

same family - gentamicin and tobramycin - used for serious human

infections. Gentamicin is not used by the poultry industry; tobramycin is

restricted to human use only.

A recent risk assessment study commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) has estimated that about 8,000-10,000 persons in the

U.S. each year acquire fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections

from chicken and attempt to treat those infections with a

fluoroquinolone.

Every day, new strains of bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic

microorganisms are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once

dispatched them with extreme prejudice.

" We know that antimicrobial resistance will follow antimicrobial use

as sure as night follows day, " said Dr. A. Jernigan, deputy

chief of prevention and response from the Center of Disease Control.

" It's just a biological phenomenon. " It turns out that the

indiscriminate killing of harmless microbes damages the body in complex

ways we are only beginning to understand. Powerful antibiotics introduced

into the complex environment in our intestines cause mayhem, much like a

series of bombs tossed into a market square. Antibiotic resistance is a

widespread problem, and one that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention calls " one of the world's most pressing public health

problems. "

One of the deadliest germs is a staph bacteria called M.R.S.A., short for

methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which lives harmlessly on

the skin but causes havoc when it enters the body. Patients who do

survive M.R.S.A. often spend months in the

hospital and

endure several operations to cut out infected tissue. Hospitalizations

associated with a

drug-resistant form of a Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six

years in the U.S. to nearly 280,000 cases in 2005. The death toll rose

from 4,700 in 1999 to about 6,600 in 2005. It estimated that 94,000

Americans suffered invasive

MRSA infections in

2005 and that about 19,000 died.

One out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a hospital

stay in the US. Hospital infections kill an estimated 103,000 people in

the United States a year, as many as AIDS, breast cancer and auto

accidents combined. The vast majority of lethal cases occur in

hospitals and

nursing homes, where open wounds and punctures provide the opportunistic

staph a ready path to the bloodstream and organs. The dangers of

infection are worsening as many hospital infections can no longer be

cured with common antibiotics.

More than half the time, doctors and other caregivers break the most

fundamental rule of hygiene by

failing to clean their hands before treating a patient.

" Recently there has been an alarming epidemic caused by

community-associated (CA)-MRSA strains, which can cause severe infections

that can result in necrotizing fasciitis or even death in otherwise

healthy adults outside of

healthcare

settings, " is the word coming from the National Institute of Allergy

and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research team, headed by Dr.

Otto.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the so-called flesh-eating disease that can

destroy healthy tissue and even kill patients. The team found that some

strains on MRSA secrete a compound called phenol-soluble modulin or PSM.

It attracts

immune system

cells called neutrophils, the researchers found, and then blows them up

in a process called lysis. Neutrophils are key immune cells involved in

clearing bacterial infections, so destroying them would allow the

bacteria to thrive almost unmolested.

" In the United States, CA-MRSA is now the cause of the majority of

infections that result in trips to the emergency room. It is unclear what

makes CA-MRSA strains more successful in causing human disease compared

with their hospital-associated counterparts, " they add.

When the peaceful activities of a normal microbial population are

disrupted, malevolent bacteria may take full advantage of the opportunity

to strike. The intestinal infection C. difficile colitis, now rampaging

through hospitals around the world, is one of the worst such complication

of antibiotic use.

Clostridium difficile was first recognized as a hospital microbe in 1978.

By 1996, it had increased to 31 cases per 100,000 people discharged from

U.S. hospitals. In 2003, the most recent year for complete statistics,

prevalence had risen to 61 per 100,000. C. diff is part of the natural

flora, or bacteria, in the colon. " We're seeing all of the warning

signs that this is the next MRSA, " said former New York Lt. Gov.

Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, a

Manhattan-based nonprofit. " It spreads like wildfire in

hospitals. "

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming toxin-producing bacterium that

is overtaking peoples' large intestines from which it mounts an attack on

the bloodstream. Like MRSA, Clostridium difficile has become

multi-drug-resistant. Although once a bacterium that mostly affected

elderly, hospitalized patients, a bolder strain is crippling the robust.

In emergency efforts to save some patients' lives surgeons remove the

entire large

intestine to prevent overwhelming infection.

One case had been treated by a dermatologist for an ingrown hair on his

back and prescribed an antibiotic. He took only a few pills, but quickly

became ill. Based on what his doctors told him, the short course of

antibiotics proved sufficient to destroy virtually all the natural

bacteria in his intestine - except C. diff, which was freed to ravage his

colon.

Frequently, stethoscopes, blood-pressure monitors and other equipment are

contaminated with live bacteria. Yet doctors and nurses almost never

clean the stethoscope before listening to a patient's chest.

" It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech',

and handle more serious illnesses. Applying more disinfectant is not the

answer; some strains of germs have actually been found thriving in

bottles of hospital disinfectant! The more antibacterial chemical

'weapons' are being used, the more bacteria are becoming resistant to

them, " writes Dr. Carl Wieland.

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new forms

of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to the WHO, outbreaks of

drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the world and

threaten to touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually incurable

tuberculosis. An October 1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention and the International Union Against

Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50 million people are

infected with a strain of TB that is drug-resistant. Many of those are

said to carry multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, incurable by two or more

of the standard drugs.

New DNA technology has found hundreds of previously unrecognized species

in the traditional stomping grounds of the mouth and intestine, and

traces of bacteria even in tissues previously thought to be

sterile.

Lessons from Autism

Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that

antibiotic use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of

mercury in rats due

to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antibiotics in the

children with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete mercury.

Higher usage of oral antibiotics in infancy may also partially explain

the high incidence of chronic gastrointestinal problems in individuals

with autism.

Many physicians are unaware of lasting adverse effects caused by

routinely prescribed

medications

such as antibiotics. Antibiotic therapy for minor colds and runny noses

is a common practice. People routinely receive multiple courses of

broad-spectrum antibiotics throughout life or are injected with

long-acting corticosteroid medicine for joint or muscle pain. Once

established, sub-clinical colonization with yeast in the body may persist

unrecognized for many years. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, can

greatly increase yeast in the colon after only a few days.

The extensive use of antibiotics will make the condition of Candida much

worse because it reduces heavy metal excretion, which is a food source

for the yeast like organism and also killing the beneficial bacteria at

the same time.

Normally, candida albicans lives peacefully in our intestines and

elsewhere, in harmony with other flora that keep the yeast in check. Take

an antibiotic and all this changes. By suppressing the normal flora,

candida takes over and problems begin. In its mild form, the result is

diarrhea or a yeast infection. Dr. Elmer Cranton says that, " Yeast

overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by the medical profession) and

can be caused by antibiotics and cortisone medications. A diet high in

sugar also promotes overgrowth of yeast. A highly refined diet common in

industrialized nations not only promotes growth of yeast, but is also

deficient in many of the essential vitamins and minerals needed by the

immune system. Chemical colorings, flavorings, preservatives,

stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc., add more

stress on the immune system. "

Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of

mercury in their baby teeth but similar levels of lead and similar levels

of zinc. Children with autism also had significantly higher usage of oral

antibiotics during their first 12 to 36 months of life. Reporting in the

July 11, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association,

researchers say the use of antibiotics as prevention boosts risks for

drug resistance while doing nothing to shield kids from future urinary

tract infections (UTIs). Giving antibiotics to prevent recurrent urinary

tract infections in small children not only will not help but will hurt

these children. Prior use of antibiotics to prevent infection did boost

the likelihood of developing a drug-resistant infection by nearly 7.5

times. Indeed, 61 percent of recurrent urinary tract infections were

caused by a pathogen with antibiotic resistance, the researchers pointed

out.

In a 2005 study, the antibiotic Augmentin TM has been implicated in the

formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility of

ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin.

Augmentin has been given to children since the late 1980's for bacterial

infections.

Many physicians seem to be unaware that birth control pills comprised of

the hormones estrogen and progesterone can also make the body more

susceptible to fungal infections. If antibiotics are prescribed, it acts

as a double whammy to ensuring a fungal infection will take hold by

diminishing the protective bacteria in the intestines. Many pregnant

women seek medical treatment for minor problems and are indiscriminately

given antibiotics and this begins a long decline into problems that are

complicated at each turn by OBGYN doctors at birth and by

pediatricians

who just love to poison children with the toxic chemicals found in

vaccines. In many

places in the world they still give mercury shots at birth.

Microforms poison us with their waste products.

The waste products are acetylaldehyde, uric acid, alloxin, alcohols,

lactic acid, etc.

Antibiotics may be to blame for hundreds of children developing autism

after having the controversial MMR jab. More than two-thirds of

youngsters with the condition received four or more antibiotics in their

first year, a British survey has revealed. It is thought the drugs

weakened their immune systems, leaving them unable to withstand the

impact of the triple jab. Allopathic medicine has been stubborn and slow

to look at its abusive use of antibiotics. It's the same with vaccines,

the holy grail of medicine. But with last-line-of-defence antibiotics

failing on increasingly drug-resistant superbugs and young children's

systems being destroyed by them you would think they would wake up and

find some alternatives.

Antibiotics are mostly derived from fungi and are therefore classified as

mycotoxins. Mycotoxins Are Poisons.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales

UK

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