Saturday, April 26, 2014

How have antibiotics been misused?

The previous post covers a lot of ground, all of it well
documented at this point.  Anti-biotics were also misused in the US and other developed
nations after they were first developed.  The ability to combat bacterial infections so
effectively was fantastic for doctors and they were able to cut down the length of
certain sicknesses, etc., before people started to realize that the constant use of the
drugs was not only creating resistant germs but also compromising people's own immune
systems.


One of the things that doctors have realized is
that the body's own immune system needs to be worked out, almost like the rest of the
body, in order to be healthy and maintain effectiveness.  So treating anything with
anti-biotics, especially for long periods of time, compromises the body's own ability to
fight for itself, a very dangerous prospect in the long run.

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