Giving Antibiotics to Children Causes Drug Resistance

re: Giving Antibiotics to Children Causes Drug Resistance

Sheila C — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:32:15 GMT

When the school called (yes, Bill, another reason I should be home schooling) because they suspected my son had pink eye (conjunctivitis), I told them I had already treated him for it with a mixture of salt and water to the same consistency of tears. The principal called me back and told me had spoke to 9 different people in "health care" and they informed him that it would not work and he would have to have antibiotics in order to attend school because he was contagious. Well the next day when I took my son to the optometrist to diagnose him (he happened to be one of the nine heath care professionals involved). The doctor diagnosed my son and starting writing up a prescription for antibiotics, I told him to stop and I still have the prescription and it reads "MacGregor has a slight conjunctivitis which will clear on its own in 5 - 7 days. Saline rinse is help full. He is not contageous. Dr ........... (name withheld to protect his identity)

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Peggy Sue — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:21:02 GMT

OK, SO PLEASE ADVISE ME. I had a urinary tract infection, and was in pain. I eat very clean, drink alot of water, and when I felt it coming on, I drank a good deal of pure unsweetened cranberry juice. But yes, still got the UTI. I took an antibiotic and it got cleared up. What else should I have done? I get them about once every year or 2.

Several years ago, I ignored the symptoms, and ended up one step away from being admitted to the hospital. You cannot ignore these things.

I am SO willing to try anything but an Rx, but in some cases, it seems like a logical thing to do. How else should I have handled this?

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Debrah — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:33:37 GMT

My JSD teacher tells a story of back in the early 70's in california how she had to take her toddler son to the emergency room after all the home remedies did not work. He had meningitis. The emergency room physician happened to be Chinese and when she talked about the remedies she had tried and her concern about using antibiotics(which with all the hippie types in Cal then was not unusual!) he said to her--Western medicine is not good or bad, oriental natural medicine is not good or bad--it is all Yin and Yang. She learned from this to not throw out the baby with the bathwater so to speak. Ahe continued to nurse her baby though as he was lying in the hospital bed hooked up to IV's and doing acupressure on him. I personally am grateful that modern medicine saved my life as a child (penicillin) but it is unfortunate that they did not teach my Mom how to deal with the side effects of it(yeast overgrowth, digestive difficutlies etc). I had chorea(a form of rheumatic fever). We lived on a farm and had a fairly healthy lifestyle--fresh vegeys and fruit, our own eggs, free range meat, raw dairy etc, played outside all day as weather permitted. No matter how healthy one's lifestyle we can still get sick from microbes. Of Course, anti-biotics are over prescribed--and they don't work for viral illnesses. I choose to use herbs, and homeopathics first and then if all else fails go to Dr for anti-biotics. By the way--two herbs that are rarely mentioned are Usnea and Spilanthes--these are great for many microbes. Spilanthes is especilly good for yeast. They are available form Herb Pharm. Also raw garlic is great for many infections. Debrah

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Cheryl Rounds — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:08:54 GMT

There are many alternatives to antibiotics. My 13 year old daughter has never taken an antibiotic. She had 2 ear infections (the first was after a vacation in which she had had huge amounts of dairy in the forms of milk, cheese pizza and ice cream- something she does not normally have at home) With both ear infections I was able to immediately resolve the problem with homeopathic belladona (note belladonna is for illness that comes on suddenly so it will not work for all ear infections). She also had a serious and stubborn toe infection from an ingrown nail. We tried several things including a homeopathic remedy suggested by a homeopath. When this did not work I was ready to put her on antibiotics, but my daughter would not take them. We finally resolved the infection with topical tea tree oil and a different homeopathic remedy. We also frequently use hydrogen peroxide for cleaning wounds and colloidal silver for both wounds and illness.
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success4hannah — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:20:22 GMT

There are medicinal properties in some plant and animal products that have natural antibiotics in them. When my boys and I feel the flu coming on, for example, I make the following concoction: One large clove of garlic, crushed. The juice of one lemon. A heaped teaspoon of organic raw honey. I add these ingredients to a cup and pour hot water over it (not boiling water) Drink before bedtime. All bugs are gone in the morning. Side effect: garlic breath :-)

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annapavlova42 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:39:08 GMT

The only resistance to illness is, NO antibiotics at all. Lessening the dosages will not do the trick.

No chemicals are appropiate to any system, including animals. How about a cinnamine extract stick, vits, minerols, superfoods, and a natural clean all-around environment? Go for other extracts, like, peppermint, spearment , mango, and many others. These work.

Your best solution to infections would be, speak to your naturopathic doctor. If you do not have one, search the internet or ask us on vital votes and other wonderful sites.

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mmc88121 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:12:00 GMT

Antibiotics should not be given for most URI (upper respiratory infections) because a majority of them are caused by a virus, which antibiotics do not effect. Good nourishing food and plenty of liquids would be the best way to treat them.

Mary

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Russ Bianchi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:09:55 GMT

Antibiotics should be a reactive measure of last resort!

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chirocheer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:53:21 GMT

anti = against/opposite/counteracting
bio = life

enough said.

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Rogway — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:37:49 GMT

I would tend to think that this is all that most doctors know to do that hasn't yet read the 26 beliefs of the pharma and fda depressing doctrine.

Soil based bacteria has cleared several infections from my family members. My grandson in paticular. I have asked a few doctors if it would be wise to take probiotics after the antibiotics---no, there's no use. I am glad I did it anyway, and I will continue too do so!

My theory on an eairler article...maybe this is why they are wanting to spray the play grounds where kids play today, kill the good soil based bacteria (so the kids can't pick up any that they might benefit from) so the bad bacteria can thrive and send kids running to get more antibiotics due to infection. I tend to believe it is more than just wanting to see the already green grass a bit greener. Just a thought, but it do make sense to me.