New numbers out from the government confirm what the alternative health community has been saying for years: Doctors are making their patients sick by prescribing too many antibiotic medications.
According to the research, published in unison by the Centers for Disease Control and the Pew Charitable Trust, nearly one-third of prescriptions American doctors write for antibiotics are unnecessary.
That works out to about 47 million unneeded and potentially harmful prescriptions each year.
In many of the cases when prescriptions for antibiotics were written unnecessarily patients had viral illnesses against which antibiotic drugs are powerless. These illnesses include colds, sore throats, bronchitis and flu, among others.
Healthcare experts say American doctors often prescribe the drugs as a matter of patient satisfaction because many Americans believe antibiotics to be a completely safe medical cure-all.
But overuse of antibiotics is having very real consequences for millions of patients as you read this.
Some classes of antibiotics come with the risk of severe side effects. Especially concerning are antibiotics of the fluoroquinolone variety— drugs like Avelox, Cipro and Levaquin— which have been shown to cause nerve damage tendon rupture and joint swelling, skin reactions, loss of memory and even psychosis. In some cases, these drugs can even cause damage to the heart and kidneys.
Taking too many antibiotics has also been linked to deterioration of gut health because they can kill of friendly bacteria necessary to keeping the gastrointestinal tract working optimally. Over the long term, poor gut health can cause a variety of other unexpected health problems.
Even worse, over-prescription of antibiotics is creating a widespread public health crisis because deadly bacteria are developing immunity to the drugs. Back in 2013, CDC officials began warning that even the strongest antibiotics are quickly becoming useless in fighting some of these “nightmare bacteria.”
“Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, and if we continue down the road of inappropriate use we’ll lose the most powerful tool we have to fight life-threatening infections,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement following the release of the CDC/Pew report. “Losing these antibiotics would undermine our ability to treat patients with deadly infections, cancer, provide organ transplants, and save victims of burns and trauma.”
A good way to avoid becoming part of the problem– and damaging your own health in the process– is to boost your immune system naturally with a healthy diet and only use antibiotics to fight the most serious bacterial infections.
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