Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Beware of Unneeded Antibiotics

Doctors have been warning us for years about using antibiotics for every sniffle, cough, and headache that comes along, but thousands still demand them at nearly every doctor's visit. The problem is that using antibiotics kills off everything except the few bugs that are resistant, and who can NOT be combatted with traditional medicine. This argument has been poo-pooed by hypochondriacs and overprotective parents, but now a real outbreak has begun of a bug that is actually HELPED by antibiotics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/health/14well.html?em

If you are feeling sick, be a wise consumer and listen to your doctor. Demanding your own way on these kinds of things can sometimes be the worth thing you can do.

3 comments:

BH said...

People will not heed this. They haven't yet, and they never will. We are too much of an exceptional society... what I mean by that is that every feels that they are the exception.

shadowmom1 said...

I am afraid BH is right.

quizwedge said...

I was going to make the joke that the solution is more antibiotics... until I read the article and saw that more antibiotics is exactly how they're fighting this. sigh...