"Rod Speed" writes:



"Windmill" 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 ...
:-(

And what is worse, they're running out of 'different ones' which still
work.
They say that antibiotic resistance can even be spread from one type of
bacterium to another.

Strange thing is that they knew about resistance 50 years ago,
but didn't ensure that it was generally understood by patients.

That last isnt even possible.

Its hard enough to ensure that GPs wont ever prescribe
them for the common cold where they are useless.

True, but sometimes after the viral infection is more or less over, one
gets a persistent infection that appears to be bacterial and which
results in ugly gobbets of green mucus in the nose, running down the
back of the nose, and being coughed up from the lungs.
That's the kind of thing which can last for weeks and for which an
antibiotic might be appropriate.
I'm currently suffering from that, it is very slowly improving, and I
haven't yet decided whether I should ask for an antibiotic.
If I caught another cold from all the people sneezing around me, I
probably would.
I suppose that as one ages, the risk of pneumonia becomes greater, so
it's a balancing act.

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