Anitbiotic resistance????

[cave76]

"There is little doubt that the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has contributed to the emergence of bacterial resistance, both in hospitals and community settings [1]. The major force driving changes in the prevalence of resistance in the community seems to be the volume of drug use [...]"

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/Supplement_3/S170.long

"In 2011, drugmakers sold nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics for livestock — the largest amount yet recorded and about 80 percent of all reported antibiotic sales that year. The rest was for human health care."

"It may sound counterintuitive, but feeding antibiotics to livestock at low levels may do the most harm. When he accepted the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming warned that “there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to nonlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/antibiotics-and-the-meat-we-eat.html?_r=0
(Although I don't usually present media papers, the above NYT Opinion was written by David A. Kessler who was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997. That probably adds a little weight to an 'opinion'  I think.)
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Also from the study:
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/Supplement_3/S170.long


"Approximately 600 interviewees were randomly selected from each of the following 9 countries: United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Thailand, Morocco, and Colombia."

"In all countries, it was possible to get antibiotics from a pharmacist without a medical prescription"

United Kingdom?????
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales??????
[my note: I'm sure Gill R, leader of EuroLyme would like to know that!]

"We conclude this study by highlighting the need to educate patients regarding antibiotic use and the consequences of misuse: what diseases actually require antibiotics, why full daily doses must be respected, absence of significant alterations of immunity associated with antibiotic therapy, danger of keeping part of a course for future uncontrolled use, and need of a prescription for getting antibiotics from the pharmacist could be some of the issues to be discussed with the patients."

[cave76]

Here is the link to one thread. The first posts are about NDs so the subject heading doesn't give a clue. Later, antibiotic resistance becomes the topic.

But there are many more, as Jackie said, about 'resistance' or 'antibiotics'.

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Lyme-Disease/The-metamorphosis-of-an-ND/show/1943168

[JackieCalifornia]

yes, the navigation on this site is a bit obscure sometimes, and it changes every so often.

In the right hand column on your screen, the first thing is an advertisement about 2x2" or so.  The next thing below that is a tiny bar that says 'search this community', so if you type 'antibiotics' in, it will pull up only posts in this Lyme site/page that mention antibiotics, instead of from the whole of MedHelp.  

[Sunni8]

Would you mind posting a few links when you get a chance? I can't find the threads. Still learning how to navigate this site, when I searched, I only found links for STD's. lol

[JackieCalifornia]

See other recent posts here about antibiotics and the danger (for the individual, and for the rest of us) of stopping meds before the ENTIRE course of treatment is completed.