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Better Healthcare Means Careful Use Of Antibiotics
Overusing antibiotics speeds up the process of bacteria mutating to become resistant. We need to be prudent in our use of antibiotics.
At the same time, we need to remember that although we can’t kill off all the bacteria, that’s really a good thing. Not all bacteria cause disease, and [...]
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Combating Germs – Quick Fixes For Better Healthcare That Aren’t
There has been an increased awareness of germs, and people want to stay healthy so they’re looking for ways to kill germs.
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Not all germs are bad. We need beneficial microbes. And by relentlessly [...]
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Antibiotics On The Farm – Covert Operations For Unnecessary Germ Warfare
Of all the ways we’ve used antibiotics, allowing them in our food supply may well top the list as our biggest mistake in creating antibiotic resistant bacteria. Why? For one thing, this was mostly unnecessary germ warfare. We used antibiotics when they weren’t truly needed [...]
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We’re Aiding The Enemy
It bears repeating – it’s not a question of IF a germ will become resistant to antibiotics, it a matter of WHEN the germ will become antibiotic resistant.
And we’re helping their resistance movement. Oh yes, I’m afraid we’re guilty of aiding and abetting the enemy in many ways!
The major flawed battle strategy [...]
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Antibiotic Resistance News In Health
Think about a world where antibiotics no longer control disease. If it doesn’t scare you, it ought to.
The fact is, more and more disease-causing microbes have become resistant to drug therapy. A few of them are:
tuberculosis
gonorrhea
malaria
E. coli causing urinary tract infections (UTIs)
pneumococcus (cause of ear infections, pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis)
enterococcus (a [...]
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