Superbug
Have a head ache? No problem! Just take a pill!
Slight cold? Take the arbitrary cold tablet.
This is the birth of the super bug. It hides and breeds. Antibodies swarm around it and they are powerless. Antibiotics stream and attack it fiercely. Not a scrape on it. It floats around undeterred. Multiplies unquestioned. Destroys its host. But as far as it's concerned, it got there with help and it's just surviving. Like homo erectus killed the lions that attacked their camp, and monkeys scratch and bite you if you try to steal their young ones.
Patient walks into a clinic with a simple incurable common cold. Doctor pushes antibiotic to convince patient he's done something. Naive patient unwittingly takes in and feels better', a.k.a. , Placebo effect. Virii get exposure to weak antibiotics and eventually develop immunity. Grows stronger.
It's not speculation anymore. It's a fact of life. Really. Google it if you don't believe me. Eventually, we are going to have serious problems. When fevers can kill and colds incapacitate. Think about it. Some day, patients who are actually ill won't get treatment.
4 drops:
firstly, good post
but where exactly do you draw the line!
today, its known polio drops and other antibiotics (or whatever) have given good results to many generation.
when do i decide _not_ to get some help.
also, if the rest of the world does this, later on i'm probably going to have to take increased treatment doses anyway,
lem me have em' now too, and enjoy its benefits rather than sleeping through the benefits of this generation of antibiotics ?
Firstly, nice use of OpenID...
Obviously polio drops is absolutely necessary. Don't change the issue to me being an extremist. I'm not saying don't use medicines!! I'm saying don't misuse medicines! I'm actually saying "DRAW A LINE ALREADY!"
The problem is for small things. How many times have you gone to a doctor for a minor fever and taken arbit antibiotics? Just take some paracetamol, a light dosage. That does the trick.
The problem isn't so much ABOUT increased doses. For normal fever, sure take an increased dose, a stronger antibiotic. But what about for those dying people, who have life threatening infections. There won't be any stronger antibiotics to give! That's my point
Nice post. Got me thinking... I agree about the fact that some of us tend to overuse the doctor and I really hope that people stop taking antibiotics for small things like colds etc. However, a doctor needs to be absolutely sure that the patient is safe from any disease and hence the use of antibiotics. They're given to stop secondary infections from occurring and do not cause the actual virus (the cold) to mutate. Hence the formation of a "super-bug" is quite unlikely.
unlikely? What makes you say that? The thing is, it's happened already.
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-bc-deadlybacteria0528may28,0,6276767.story
That was three days ago. Go search news on super bugs.
Even bigger issue. Big pharma isn't getting enough money back from the antibiotics. So they're shifting focus to other types of drugs (psychiatric, etc).
There are even groups to fight antibiotic resistance -http://www.reactgroup.org/ . Lots more where that came from.
This is the trend in the US.
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