[goodwithagun]

5000 IU’s or more of D3 a day and probiotics. I throw in an EmergenC every day too.

[neverdem]

micro ping

[Carley]

Interesting situation with my son. He had NO antibiotics for over ten years. He had a very severe ear infection in college and the Amoxicillin he was prescribed did nothing for the infection.

He needed something stronger. So it’s just not a problem with individuals, it seems the microbes themselves have grown stronger.

[Red Badger]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/degradable-nanoparticles-search-intercept-and-destroy-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria

[Palter]

A recent one from Wired.

Drug-Resistant Bacteria: To Humans From Farms via Food

[Hacklehead]

Resistance is futile.

[blasater1960]

This is a very serious problem. I encourage everyone to learn about MRSA ( Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or "Mersa"). Google it. About 19,000 people die from it a year and that number is skyrocketing.

My mother got a cut on her finger, got a little bit infected, didnt think much about it, next thing she knows is sometime later, she had severe back pain. Turned out that it was a MRSA super bug that had got into her blood stream and attacked her spine, "dissolving" two vertebrae. She had emergency surcgery and barely survived the whole ordeal.

Signs of MRSA, usually a red spot or cluster of red spots, little pustules that resemble a bug bite or spider bite. If you see something like that, get it swabbed and checked for MRSA! People loose hands, arms, legs, muscle and die from not having it ID'd promptly. Make sure you wash your hands ALL the time. If you have a loved one in a nursing home, get a nasal swab test on them, they or you can easily get it in a nursing home (or hospital) environment.

You have been warned!

[FewsOrange]

Resistance to antibiotics will continue to evolve in bacteria. The “tragedy of the commons” section of the article sums it up best. The benefits of the overuse of antibiotics accrue to the user, the drawbacks are felt by others.

[djf]

One of the things that always got me is how the FDA rails against colloidal silver.

Meanwhile, pool filters use silver, nano silver is put in socks to stop the smell, I have Curad bandaids that have silver in them, silver nitrate was used for years as a preventative of eye infection in newborns, and silver sulfadiazene is the treatment choice for burn victims.

But colloidal silver is snake oil...

[donozark]

Good friend of mine had a serious case of BOOP just before Christmas. BOOP is a rare form of pneumonia. Difficult to diagnose. Difficult to treat. He darned near died. 37 days in hospital. Antibiotics had little effect. Prednisone finally helped bring him around.
Even Mayo Clinic got involved since the doctor that wrote the book (literally) on BOOP works there.
He gained 45 pounds, as did Jerry Lewis and other patients when on Prednisone.
Nasty stuff out there....

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Question: " What can be done about the rising risk of antibiotic resistance? "

Answer: Nothing. However, there is always hope.

[wolfman]

My mother has suffered a severe bout with C-diff. antibiotics would knock it down temporarily, but it kept coming back. Finally I convinced her to try Vitamin D3 along with Florastor probiotic. 6,000 units a day of D3. It’s working and I wonder why the her doctors never recommended either for the problem.

[GATOR NAVY]

Nearly 450,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are recorded each year; one-third of these people die from the disease. More than a quarter of new cases of TB identified recently in parts of Russia were of this troublesome kind.

I spent over five months in the isolation ward with multidrug-resistant TB while they kept trying new antibiotic regimens that would have an effect on the strain I had. It was not a pleasant experience. Needless to say, I have pretty strong opinions about the abuse of antibiotics.

[Southack]

Superbugs are easily eradeicated with phages instead of antibiotics.

They are a non-issue.

[Southack]

Superbugs are easily eradicated with phages instead of antibiotics.

They are a non-issue.

[Nowhere Man]

We might have to go back to sulfa-drugs although there are some cases where side effects can be a problem, especially those with HIV.

[Nowhere Man]

In 2003, I slipped on ice getting out of my car and cut my left hand open on the pinky side on a nail or staple on my garage. I went to the ER and get my cut stitched plus an artery that was cut open. A week later, it was infected and I was taken into hospital a day after the shuttle Columbia blew up. I had to have it operated on to clean it out and I was on a strong antibiotic via IV. I was told I was lucky, I came close to losing part, if not all, of my hand. I was left with some nerve damage and a big scar on my hand. I stayed in hospital for 5 days, the county infection control doctor had to clear me for release. I was infected with strep.

A year earlier my aunt had a staph infection in her foot from a cortisone shot, she almost lost her foot.