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Hand washing does not kill many bacteria.
One purpose of soap, however, is to loosen bacteria from the skin.
After soaping, flowing water can literally “wash” bacteria off your hands and down the drain.
What a remarkable thing to suggest to the press..accuracy.
Apostate...Gut grabbing headlines and hysteria sell papers.
Seems she visited her brother on a farm....The water source for household use was a lake..
His filtration system was working but not the sanitizer and she had mixed the 7 month old’s bottle with raw lake water.
She was hysterical about e.coli... but 48 hrs later the baby was still not sick.
Natural selection at work...The healthiest survive all but the most determined attacks.
What you will never hear the medical profession admitting is that the reason there are so many organisms that have developed resistance to antibiotics is that the medical community, i.e., medical doctors for decades have routinely prescribed antibiotics for colds, flu or just about any complaint because the patient wanted a "magic bullet", i.e., a "pill", and doctors only know how to prescribe drugs for various maladies. So for decades, all those viral based problems that antibiotics were useless against were "treated" by doctors who actually should have known better.
Now, when the "superbugs" start eating the antibiotics for lunch, the medical profession starts all this antibiotics "overuse" krapTM and accuse the patients of being the problem instead of admitting the iatrogenic and nosocomial basis for the problem.
I fully comprehend how patients have added to the problem by discontinuing a course of antibiotics once they start "feeling better", but I also know from experience that medical "professionals" have historically given little to no information about the regimen to patients for whom they are prescribing those antibiotics. "Here's a prescription for XYZillin, if you don't feel better, call the office and schedule another appointment" (kaching!). Gee, I wonder where the idea of "informed consent" came from lately. Couldn't have been from all the lawsuits when the side effects and adverse reactions of all the cut'n'burn pill rolling and needless surgery, could it?
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is over 7.5 million. 2.5% of the population. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization is 8.9 million. Nearly 3%. And these figures don't include the fact that physician caused acts are only reported less than 20% of the time. "The American medical system is the leading cause of injury and death in the United States." -- from Death by Medicine And these are figures from 5 years ago or so. It's only gotten worse, not better.
I do agree totally with you about the scare tactics of the Lame Stream Media. If it bleeds, it leads. But I also get really sick of hearing about how selfless and blameless the allopathic medical profession is when they are the actual cause of most medical problems. They ridicule and close their eyes to any kind of natural based remedy or non-invasive treatments and will try to persecute the medical "heretics" who want to use those modalities. [I watched teevee footage of jackbooted, body-armour clad, automatic weapon carrying DEA thugs raid a local medical clinic and confiscate patient records and treatment materials. Why? Because the medical doctor (not naturopath, spiritualist or unlicensed practitioner) was accused of prescribing too large of doses of... get this... Vitamin B.]
But I do agree with your analysis of this non-story in the LSM. Good to point out some of the facts.
Thanks for the primer, 60G.
Next, you’ll be telling me there’s no such thing as global warming =:0
Seriously, how did the visit to see your sis graduate go?
Anytime my kids are prescribed antibiotics, they get yogurt or Kefir with every meal. Never had a problem.
Except with kids sick of yogurt :)
Not the quack doctor I have been going to. I thought maybe I had a bladder infection so went to the doctor. She prescribed Cipro (no Flagyl) then told me to go get a urine test AFTER TAKING the Cipro to see if it cleared it up. I didn't do as she said and went right away to get the urine test and guess what. NO bladder infection. Note to self. I need to find a new doctor
I wouldn’t doubt that what I had recently waws not C-Diff instead of the Giardia they assumed. I’d recently been on two or three courses of antibiotics for my teeth and I’m sure things were out of balance. Even with the evil antibiotic they gave me for Giardia, things did not really get better until I made myself sick eating yogurt and other helpful foods.
Excellent article! Once again exposing the media's "the sky is falling" mentality.
An interesting aside: Natural Selection theory would indicate that the organisms didn't "develop" anything in response to the antibiotics. Rather, similar other extant species that already are resistant have move to the forefront since their rivals for resources are dying by the billions due to the antibiotics. How that extant species came to exist with a resistance developed to something that didn't exist in nature is any one's guess.