If you ventured here when you were looking for prescription free antibiotics, I urge you to read this, and the same goes for the rest of you.
Antibiotics has been mans single last defense against bacterial infections for over forty years. Many of the antibiotics developed are ineffective today, more specifically 2/3 of all invented antibiotics, and a new antibiotic costs 800M US Dollar and 15 years to create. Man is loosing the battle against bacteria, that’s the fact. The meat production industry is pumping the cows and pigs full of antibiotics and we are constantly given pointless recipes for antibiotics against stuff they don’t work on, like a fluvirus. Think about it, how many of you have eaten antibiotics to cure a flu-virus? I think pretty many of you.. Well I can tell you thatit won’t work because a virus isn’t a bacterial infection, hence antibiotics won’t work.
The problem with the human race is that we are primarily lazy. We invent things that makes our life easier and minimize work. We basically wouldn’t have leave our house in a week or a month if we wouldn’t want to. This is why we still haven’t created a new drug against bacterial infection, we still believe that antibiotic drugs will save us in the end. Well the problem is that some researchers believe that antibiotics as they are today will be completely ineffective in 12 years. In twelve years I will hopefully have a family with kids and I would be very glad to hear that there is a drug that can help my children when they scrape their knees and bacteria attacks the wound. Bacteria is smart, and quickly learns how to adapt in a hostile environment and how to tackle the white blood cells and their sidekick antibiotics. There are already bacteria that are completely resistant to any antibiotics, that do not react to any antibiotic treatments. Some bacteria can only be treated by one or two antibiotic drugs, like the bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus which transfers into MRSA that kills many people each year. When this bacteria mutates and becomes resistant, I would reconsider going to the hospital for a standard procedure.
So what can we do? Firstly I would recommend to keep your immune system and hygiene in good shape. Take care that you get enough vitamins from food and use supplements if needed. If you live in a norther country, make sure you eat D-vitamins. An experiment with D-vitamins was carried out in two kindergartens, they were both fed pills, in one the pills were placebo, in the other they were d-vitamins. The kindergarden with the d-vitamins supplement never got the winter flu. Take care of your hygiene, wash your hand often and carefully. Secondly, try to remember that if your body isn’t bacteria infected, you cannot fix you illness with antibiotics. Thirdly and most importantly, always ask you doctor if it is really necessary for you to eat antibiotics, and wether you can get another treatment.
I’m not a doctor, but those of you who has read my blog before know I’m interested in herbal medicine, and I usually treat my illnesses with basic herbal medicine, avoiding synthetic drugs and antibiotics. In some extreme cases I’m forced to swallow my principles and accept antibiotics. The other week I had a serious sinusinfection, that had gone so far up as to my forehead and I was at risk of getting Meningitis (an infection in the protective membrane of the brain). I readily took the antibiotics for a week (750mg), but apart from many of my friends who believe they can go as normal as the antibiotics will do the work for them, I stayed home and took care of myself. The point with antibiotics is that they are like war allies, but if your own troops are weak, they’re not going to do much good now are they? I also bought one of those cans from which you pour liquid into your sinuses, and now I’m up and running again.
My message is: Don’t overuse antibiotics, it’s like shooting yourself in the leg, because then when you really need a good war allied there won’t be any strong enough to help you.
