On Feb 18, 1:54*am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"dennis@home" wrote in message

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On 17/02/2013 02:41, Arfa Daily wrote:

"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 16/02/2013 18:37, Rod Speed wrote:

The risk with the antibiotics isnt the residual antibiotic, its what
antibiotic resistant bacteria is in the food as a result of the use
of the antibiotics.

No it isn't.
the risk is that the small does of antibiotic you consume in the food
will lead to a resistant bacteria.

Funny old things, antibiotics. I recently had 7 weeks of the buggers to
shift an infection that got into my leg. The doc had to keep giving them
to me to ensure that every last trace of the infection had gone.
Apparently, this is why they tell you that you must complete the course,
even if what you are trying to fix appears to have cleared up, because
if you don't kill it all, what's left mutates, and becomes resistant to
the antibiotic that you were using, so you then have to start again with
a different one ... :-(

Arfa

That's why we have resistant strains of TB appearing..
the symptoms disappear quite quickly but the actual course lasts
weeks/months and people stop taking it too soon.

I was actually really surprised that the little *******s that you haven't
quite managed to kill off, can mutate into a resistant strain - for your
body at least - in just a couple of days. I was also surprised that what I
thought was a simple infection in my leg, could take seven weeks of heavy
duty oral antibiotics, to shift. I would have thought that after a couple of
weeks, the body's own defenses would have got a handle on what the bacteria
was, and that once this had occurred, the antibiotics would only be
assisting in finishing the job off ...

Arfa

It's because you're getting old.