Antibiotics Should only Be Used for Life threatening Conditions

http://homefirst.com/ Solution to killer superbug found in Norway

OSLO, Norway - Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner.

Look closer, however, at a microscopic level, and this place is pristine. There is no sign of a dangerous and contagious staph infection that killed tens of thousands of patients in the most sophisticated hospitals of Europe, North America and Asia this year, soaring virtually unchecked.
The reason: Norwegians stopped taking so many drugs.

Twenty-five years ago, Norwegians were also losing their lives to this bacteria. But Norway's public health system fought back with an aggressive program that made it the most infection-free country in the world. A key part of that program was cutting back severely on the use of antibiotics.

Now a spate of new studies from around the world prove that Norway's model can be replicated with extraordinary success, and public health experts are saying these deaths - 19,000 in the U.S. each year alone, more than from AIDS - are unnecessary.




Dr. Eisenstein's comments:
We should take a lesson from the Norwegians. We have too much antibiotic useage in this country. Instead of looking at vaccines and antibiotics we must start looking at Probiotics and Vitamin D as a treatment to prevent and treat infectious diseases. The CDC reported that many of the children and who died from the swine flu actually died from pneumonia some from a MRSA pneumonia.


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[DeanCU]

@jeangrey65 Actually its the bacteria that we select for that are the cause for super bugs not a deficiency in our own immune system. Its like a mini scale example for evolution, when we use antibiotics it kills most bacteria but the strong survive and go on to replicate. When this happens we are selecting for the immune bacteria. It takes roughly 12 years for a new antibiotic to come out in the market but only 2 years for a bacteria to gain full resistance, were fighting an up hill battle.

[jeangrey65]

I have always believed this. Myself and my family have been extememly healthy and we've never gotten flu shots or antibotics. Stop medicating so the body can build ammunities! Drives me crazy when I see people use those sterile wipes and gels all the time too.

[mranenome]

A year or two ago I heard some radio pieces on the BBC about the illicit trade in diluted and counterfeit antibiotics going on in east Asia and Africa. Seems it was/is huge, mainly perpetrated by a bunch of Chinese "entrepreneurs," and posed/does pose a huge threat to the ongoing efficacy of antibiotics all over the world in general.

Oh, glorious, unregulated international capitalism. Is there no end to the benefits?