Legendary singer Bobby Caldwell’s widow has revealed his final years of hell battling side effects caused by a common antibiotic at the center of multi-million dollar lawsuits.
The star was prescribed fluoroquinolone in 2017 to treat a cold but within a week was bed-bound. It ravaged his body and left him with ‘unbearable’ nerve damage, putting him on a fatal course that eventually led to him dying of heart disease at 71 last year.
‘It was so ferocious and sudden. It just devastated my husband,’ Mary Caldwell told DailyMail.com.
FLUOROQUINOLONE ANTIBIOTICS
And other Fluorinated Drugs
Fluorine is the most reactive element in the periodic table. The reactive quality of elements can be useful for industrial and other purposes. An estimated one-third of all current pharmaceutical drugs are fluorinated. This practice makes use of the reactivity of the fluorine molecule in several ways. Fluorination enhances drugs and therefore enables pharmaceutical companies to use less of the other components of the drugs, apparently a cost-saving measure. Moreover, fluorination facilitates the passage of certain drugs through the blood-brain barrier, ostensibly allowing, for instance, psychotropic drugs to become more effective. Fluorination can also make possible the entry of certain drugs into otherwise impermeable cells including bacteria, sometimes deranging the DNA, making certain antibiotics extremely powerful, with lethal effects on a broad spectrum of bacteria (until they become resistant).
The level of toxicity of the F component of any fluorinated drug is thought to be related to the degree to which it is metabolized in the body, and possibly to other mechanisms. While most fluorinated drugs can be categorized as chemically organic (as opposed to compounds made from fluorides which are technically inorganic salts), observations are that:
a) a fluorinated drug can add to the F body burden (bioaccumulativity); and
🚨🚨🚨b) that a fluorinated drug can have a similar toxic effect on the body as any other fluoride overexposure.
One class of fluorinated drugs that has been increasingly widely prescribed is that of the fluoroquinolone antibiotics. The generic names of all of these drugs end with the suffix “floxacin”. Some common names of these drugs still on the market are: Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, Factive, Noroxin, and Floxin. Several earlier versions of fluoroquinolone antibiotics have been removed from the market for causing lethal and other dangerous side effects.
https://slweb.org/ftrcfluoroquinolone.html
How tragic! What a beautiful voice he had. He was multitalented. Listen to his original hit ‘What You Won’t Do For Love.’
He played every instrument in that recording, and sang it too. He actually won Best New Black Artist. He was white.