The end of antibiotics

[Guest guest]

Garlic has done wonders for our family. It is a natural antibiotic.

even scientists have taken notice that it is stronger than any

antibiotic known. Our family has been antibiotic free for some time

now with regular use of garlic. About a year after Dillons vaccine

reaction, I discovered/figured out that the daily use for about 2 yrs

of antibiotics(kidney issue) had caused him to be unable to excrete

the metals from the vacs and then causing severe gi issues! Below is

a good article on antibiotics. Jennie<><

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.

About the author

Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical

Veritas Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/. Dr. Sircus was

trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of

Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of

Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the

Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the

title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the

first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr.

Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in

medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on

vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic

agents that are dramatically threatening present and future

generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is

a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and

courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his

various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st

Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and is racing to finish his

Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the

area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and

heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of

minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea

water and different concentrates taken from it for health and

healing. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work,

offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to

supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings

cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down

blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction.

Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release

from a broad range of conditions.

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