Posted on 10/26/2013 10:13:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end. 'For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about "The end of antibiotics, question mark?"' said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. 'Well, now I would say you can change the title to "The end of antibiotics, period.”' The associate director of the CDC sat down with Frontline over the summer for a lengthy interview about the growing problem of antibacterial resistance. Srinivasan, who is also featured in a Frontline report called 'Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria,' which aired Tuesday, said that both humans and livestock have been overmedicated to such a degree that bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics.
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-——The bugs have won?-—
No sequestration cut his funding and he is pissed. he wants money.
Xylitol is sugar alchol used in toothpaste and mouthwash that may help with ear infections. From Wikipedia;
“xylitol is actively beneficial for dental health by reducing caries to a third in regular use and helpful to remineralization[citation needed]. Multiple studies utilizing electron microscopy have indicated that xylitol is effective in inducing remineralization of deeper layers of demineralized enamel.[3][4] Xylitol also has been shown to reduce the incidence of acute middle ear infection”
And I can’t count the number of times I’ve had patients DEMANDING an antibiotic I didn’t think they needed. Followed by the dreaded “ patient complaint”. Lots of us just give up and write the Rx.
Tain't just Mexicans. It is illegal immigrants in general. Diseases which were once virtually eradicated by vaccinations and quarantines in the US have been re-imported into a population that has NOT been vaccinated, having been born after the illness were understood to have been eradicated. Little things like "tuberculosis".
Add to that little inconveniences like bed-bugs, virtually unheard of in the USA over my entire lifetime, and which are now spreading like plague.
Phages reduce antibiotics to the cure of the last century.
An aspiring mass murderer.
yep
Doctors prescribed them too much.
They were used too much and the bacteria mutated,and mutated,and mutated.
Every ear infection or bad cold got an antibiotic.
Even if you never took one you’re affected because of the tough little “bugs”.
Agreed.
Is that really true? I have my doubts.
Pulled from a “reliable” scientific source - Wikipedia:
Other bleaching applications are becoming more important as hydrogen peroxide is seen as an environmentally benign alternative to chlorine-based bleaches.[48] However scientific studies have found hydrogen peroxide to be ineffective in certain cases, and generally instruct hospitals, medical institutions, and other locations where public health is monitored, to use chlorine-based bleaches for disinfection.[49]
Although there are other products just out, e.g., HP bleach that is supposed to be the bees knees.
I’m not looking to start an argument, but I’ve heard this from drs before. My question is this (and I think it’s a reasonable one): What would you do if a patient demanded opoids or an unnecessary surgery or a CT scan that they didn’t need?
I’ve had incidents where I went in with something in mind, but the dr effectively communicated with me and talked me into another route or into giving time for the problem to resolve. Hell, a dr explained why they weren’t giving my son a CT scan (and instead were running a hundred other tests) when the CT scan would’ve answered all of our questions. (Turns out there’s a lot more radiation than the general public is aware of.) I thanked him for explaining it to me and backed off.
Many parents/patients get frustrated because they’re living with the cycles of infection (and all the misery that goes with it) and, in many cases, they do need antibiotics regularly. But I promise you, in those cases, a patient would welcome an interested dr who said, “Let’s get to the bottom of this problem so we can get you healthy and keep it that way.” I don’t know anyone who loves antibiotics. They cause their own problems.
Again, I’m not tying to be confrontational, I just don’t understand why drs are such strong, confident professionals and effective communicators in every other area except this one.
Make sense?
And yes, I am genuinely listening with open ears and an open mind for your response.
Marie, there is a big difference between Class II narcotics and antibiotics. Using Class II medications as an example of something a doctor refuses, when he doesn’t refuse antibiotics is an absurd comparison.
Not only that, these would generally not be prescribed by the same physician. A pediatrician will by and large prescribe Class II narcotics very seldom to children. A chemo physician would prescribe them to their patients. Generally it’s to their geriatric patients or patients in life ending situations.
A child in this situation would generally have been passed off to another physician specialist.
Oh, my. Should we close the border altogether? Not allow international flights to land?
You’re saying that ‘pop a Valium’ is me advocating that you literally self-medicate right now?
Did you mean that I should literally go outside and ‘get lost’ or were you being sarcastic?
Right there, you’ve lost credibility. You’re not interested in a debate/conversation. You just want to argue. You started an argument when there was none.
Now you’re just mad because you want the last word and I’m not giving it to you.
Grow up.
(And no. I do not mean that you should intentionally grow inches in height.)
As for the rest of the crap that you said, I’d happily address each and every point if it’s in the interest of discourse. But you just want an argument so I’m not going to bother.
Yes. As in not allow passage of illegals.
"Not allow international flights to land?"
Passengers on international flights are LEGAL. They have passed through a minimum screening process just by virtue of the fact that they can afford a ticket.
And because they have come in legally, they have a "paper trail" that can be followed back to find people they may have contacted if it turns out that they "do" carry an illness, and those people isolated and/or treated.
Illegals do not have such a trail and cannot be traced back, and have reasons to avoid having that happen. So anyone who is exposed is likely never to know why/how they were made ill, and the illness will spread far and wide because the tools of quarantine cannot be applied.
This isn't rocket science....surely you are bright enough to understand those differences??
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