Pros and cons of antibiotics?
I just heard that using antibiotics is kind of similar to dropping a nuclear bomb on your system?
Though it doesn't kill off what ever bacteria that might effect harm to your body as it also kills "good" bacteria? Which help with every day defences/ digestions/ect?
Also it supposedly takes your body two years to redo these supposed bacteria which help you with your shield systems?
Has anyone else heard of this? Someone told me it was common ease but im not too sure about that.
Answers:
It sounds like a wildly exaggerated performance of the truth.
Antibiotics do indeed kill some of the "good" bacteria in your body, and the prime problem this can lead to is yeast infections (due to disturbing the yeast/bacteria balance in the vagina). I don't know just about 2 years, but it can take some time to go back to commonplace - probably not long after you stop taking the antibiotics.
HOWEVER, if you have a bacterial infection, the good caused by antibiotics far outweighs the side effects of yeast infections and whatnot. People used to die from broken bones that get infected with bacteria, and many diseases are deep but easily treated with antibiotics - syphilis, TB, plague, etc.
Wildly exagerated. Most of the bacteria contained by the human gut are Bacteroides spp., an anaerobe that's characterized by extreme resistance to basically every form of antibiotic used. This is actually problematic as they can pass those genes to other gut microbes, like E.Coli which occasionally get out and cause urinary tract infections and the similar to.
For most of the bacteria in your gut, the doubling time is between 20 minutes and an hour or so. Even if you managed to wipe out off all but a handful, your intestinal flora would be back to approximately regular within two days.
This is one of the common topics that sCAM med crowds like to shout out in the order of for no real reason, and with no valid understanding of what's going on.
Hi Jennifer. The information you presented is basically correct.
The average person have over 400 different species of bacteria living in their gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Some of these are potentially dangerous pathogens, but most of them are "commensals".
Commensal organisms provide copious benefits to you, such as: 1) production of some vitamins (B12, Vitamin K), 2) stimulation of your gut's immune system, 3) detoxification of ingested toxins, 4) assistance in digestion, and 5) control of the pathogenic bacteria and yeast in your gut so they don't grow excessively.
Antibiotics can eliminate most of the commensals in your gut. This can allow the pathogenic organisms living there to "take over". This lead to a condition known as "Dysbiosis". Many unhealthy effects can result from dysbiosis.
A HUGE problem today with the all-embracing use of antibiotics is the risk of developing a life-threatening infection with Clostridium Difficile. This is a very dangerous organism that kill a lot of people every year.
Finally, there is another HUGE problem next to antibiotics. They are grossly over-prescribed. Too often, medical doctors reach for the prescription pad and lay down an antibiotic for colds, flu's, and a variety of benign conditions that are NOT responsive to antibiotics, but the doctors don't know how to treat.
So, generally, the issue you are asking about is indisputable and it is serious.
Below is a link to an article in the Journal of Nutrition on this issue.
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full…
Here is a link to a proven paper on C. difficile.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19340…
Best wishes and good luck.
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Though it doesn't kill off what ever bacteria that might effect harm to your body as it also kills "good" bacteria? Which help with every day defences/ digestions/ect?
Also it supposedly takes your body two years to redo these supposed bacteria which help you with your shield systems?
Has anyone else heard of this? Someone told me it was common ease but im not too sure about that.
Answers:
It sounds like a wildly exaggerated performance of the truth.
Antibiotics do indeed kill some of the "good" bacteria in your body, and the prime problem this can lead to is yeast infections (due to disturbing the yeast/bacteria balance in the vagina). I don't know just about 2 years, but it can take some time to go back to commonplace - probably not long after you stop taking the antibiotics.
HOWEVER, if you have a bacterial infection, the good caused by antibiotics far outweighs the side effects of yeast infections and whatnot. People used to die from broken bones that get infected with bacteria, and many diseases are deep but easily treated with antibiotics - syphilis, TB, plague, etc.
Wildly exagerated. Most of the bacteria contained by the human gut are Bacteroides spp., an anaerobe that's characterized by extreme resistance to basically every form of antibiotic used. This is actually problematic as they can pass those genes to other gut microbes, like E.Coli which occasionally get out and cause urinary tract infections and the similar to.
For most of the bacteria in your gut, the doubling time is between 20 minutes and an hour or so. Even if you managed to wipe out off all but a handful, your intestinal flora would be back to approximately regular within two days.
This is one of the common topics that sCAM med crowds like to shout out in the order of for no real reason, and with no valid understanding of what's going on.
Hi Jennifer. The information you presented is basically correct.
The average person have over 400 different species of bacteria living in their gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Some of these are potentially dangerous pathogens, but most of them are "commensals".
Commensal organisms provide copious benefits to you, such as: 1) production of some vitamins (B12, Vitamin K), 2) stimulation of your gut's immune system, 3) detoxification of ingested toxins, 4) assistance in digestion, and 5) control of the pathogenic bacteria and yeast in your gut so they don't grow excessively.
Antibiotics can eliminate most of the commensals in your gut. This can allow the pathogenic organisms living there to "take over". This lead to a condition known as "Dysbiosis". Many unhealthy effects can result from dysbiosis.
A HUGE problem today with the all-embracing use of antibiotics is the risk of developing a life-threatening infection with Clostridium Difficile. This is a very dangerous organism that kill a lot of people every year.
Finally, there is another HUGE problem next to antibiotics. They are grossly over-prescribed. Too often, medical doctors reach for the prescription pad and lay down an antibiotic for colds, flu's, and a variety of benign conditions that are NOT responsive to antibiotics, but the doctors don't know how to treat.
So, generally, the issue you are asking about is indisputable and it is serious.
Below is a link to an article in the Journal of Nutrition on this issue.
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full…
Here is a link to a proven paper on C. difficile.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19340…
Best wishes and good luck.
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