The End of Antibiotics is mis-named

March 28, 2008

This is really about the misuse of antibiotics and defects in

manufacturing. Antibiotics are the reason many of us lived through

pneumonias and other virulent infections. If you have ever had 105

degree fever for three days until you got a shot of penicillan, you

would decry the abuse of the drug, not its use. Women suffer from

side effects of fungal overgrowth but suffer more from the

infections they may have which prompted their use. What does he

suggest a woman take if she she has a kidney infection from a

hundred thousand colonies of E Coli gotten from contaminated water?

We have super bugs from giving antibiotics to animals and consuming

them; from taking them without first culturing bacteria to determine

what they are sensitive to; from using biocides everywhere so that

the organisms mutate as do all targets for pesticides; we have

weakened immune systems from pollution and bad buildings locking in

pollutants and concentrating them.

The article can only be useful if it places blame where it belongs

and also tells people when to seek out antibiotics. A lot of people

wait until they are critically ill before doing so because of badly

written articles like these. I would choose another article written

by a more qualified individual to use as an educational piece about

this subject.

Barb Rubin

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