Antibiotic resistance growing out of control, routine medical procedures now deadly

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By: Summer Tierney

As the so-called “season” of colds and flus makes this year’s  debut, yet another reason emerges to avoid antibiotics – or at least be more  cautious and discriminating about when and how to use them. The United Kingdom  now acknowledges that the excessive prescription and subsequent overuse of  antibiotics can have deadly consequences if doctors and patients don’t change  their ways, and fast. As a direct result of such abuse, antibiotics are becoming  increasingly less effective against potentially fatal bacteria. If this pattern  persists, said Health Chief Dame Sally Davies, more people could die from  routine medical procedures like heart surgery.
“Antibiotics are losing  their effectiveness at a rate that is alarming and irreversible – similar to  global warming,” Davies said. In the absence of a major reduction in the use of  antibiotics, she warns that certain untreatable conditions may spread, while  other difficult-to-treat infections like multi-resistant E-coli will take more  lives. She suggests that doctors and patients must work together to combat this  growing antibiotic resistance.
Patients must stop expecting or requesting  antibiotics prescriptions from their doctors for mild infections and minor  illnesses like coughs, sore throats and earaches, said Dr. Cliodna McNulty, a  microbiologist at the Health Protection Agency. And doctors, too, should take  extra care to help educate their patients about the consequences of using  antibiotics.

Antibiotics 101 – What doctors aren’t telling you
The fact is that  antibiotics do nothing at all for viral infections. They are completely  ineffective against most of the conditions for which they are prescribed, like  coughs, fevers and the like, which have simply to run their course and  eventually heal on their own. In fact, fevers are the body’s own natural attempt  to burn up toxic invaders. Still, doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics  anyway, either to prevent a secondary bacterial infection, or at the blind and  sometimes angry insistence of patients and parents who don’t know any  better.
What antibiotics are indiscriminately effective at is killing  bacteria – all bacteria. This may rid a person of the unwanted harmful bacteria,  yes, but with the likely more harmful result that friendly bacteria are  destroyed as well, the kind necessary to all manner of vital biological  functions, such as digestion, absorption of nutrients and the development of  immune strength. The unnecessary disruption of this delicate internal ecological  balance, especially for children, is therefore a terrible mistake wit….

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