I'm writing a paper about antibiotics creating superbugs and how this is dangerous as bacterias become stronger and stronger. I'm arguing that antibiotics is indeed creating these bugs. I'm having some troubles finding good information, especially from credible sources. Could anybody assist me in this task?
2007-02-11 11:43:09 · 2 answers · asked by Edwin L 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I've heard about both these bugs, are there other supports?
2007-02-12 15:22:40 · update #1
This is a difficult subject to deal with because of the approach modern medical clinicians have chosen to follow. The drug companies are setting the pace because of political power as well as huge coffers of money they have amassed has put our society in a position of bowing down to looking at them for all the answers to our nations health problems. Doctors have now become "legal drug pushers" being taught by the drug company reps and literature generated by so called scientific studies to support their products. The fact that science has created incredibly wonderful diagnostic tools has given credibility to this whole process, but in reality has caused some very difficult questions for our society when the diagnosis shows a problem and the drugs do not fix the problem.
Superbugs are part of this problem. DDT was presented to the public as "It's good for you" marketing schemes. After decades in 1973 it was finally banned and forbidden to be sold in the U.S. Interestingly enough, it is still be made in the U.S. and sold in higher quantities than in the U.S. to foreign countries! I believe it speaks to our morality as a country and is typical of how we look at the value of health vs. profit and production methods.
Antibiotics have been used in this country for decades now and have done some good, there is no doubt, but the question now in front of us is what are the side effects and is the good they have done worth the bad they are doing? The so called superbugs could be one of the results of messing with our immune system. Vaccinations are another issue that is becoming very controversial because they pollute the blood stream with toxins and the temporary immunity may be worse than the long term problems created by these things.
Antibiotics do not kill anything. They cause a part of the immune system to produce more macrophages, but destroy another part of the immune system that protects us. When our friendly bacteria is destroyed by them, we become susceptible to things like fungus (specifically candida & aspergillus). In Canada, a study was done to get rid of Superbugs with Acidopholus bacteria and it worked! This is probably the best evidence that when these bacteria were destroyed by antibiotics, the super bugs appeared. When the friendly bacteria were introduced, the super bugs were killed. The super bugs weren't there before the antibiotics were given.
Good luck with this. It will be an uphill battle. Money creates huge mountains to climb over.
2007-02-18 11:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by onlymatch4u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try googleing the following:
MRSA - methycillin resistant staph areous
VRE - vancomycin resistant enterococcus
These are the two most common resistent bugs that most antibiotics can't cure. There may be more info on resistant bugs and antibiotics in these two super bug websites.
2007-02-11 12:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by CARRIE C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rather lengthy answer given here makes sense.
Try searching: Colloidal Silver
See if this isn't the most effective treatment of these super bugs and most bugs in general.
Very few people know anything about silver and it's something that we "can" make ourselves at home, inexpensively.
Wouldn't that be a shame for the pharmaceutical industry though?
2007-02-19 06:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by Moe J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋