{"id":2380,"date":"2010-05-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/antibiotic-overload.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:43:29","slug":"antibiotic-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too much is too much. And you and I should take an active role in making sure our doctors aren’t over-prescribing antibiotics — because WE lose in the long term!!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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If you want to create, on purpose, bacteria that can’t be killed by our anti-biotics, a great way to do that is to throw our antibiotics at everything. Natural selection will do what it does, and you’ll have a huge problem on your hands. Congrats.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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In fact, patients whose doctors over-prescribe antibiotics can develop drug resistance that lasts up to a year<\/b><\/i>, putting them <\/span><\/span>and the population <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/i>at risk when more serious treatment is needed, scientists said this Wednesday. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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“But the more we prescribe, the more the bacteria become resistant. And really the only way of turning that vicious cycle into a virtuous circle is to only prescribe when it is absolutely necessary in the first place.”<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Experts say the annual cost in the US of treating infections from drug-resistant bacteria is more than $1.87 billion — more than the yearly cost of treating flu.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Overuse of antibiotics spurs vicious cycle<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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Too much is too much. 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