the resistance to antibiotics is not only due to their availability over the counteer but also because many doctors to grab patients and reap refunds do prescribe antibiotics as the first line of medication without any prior investigations the fault lies with the doctors as well.
( Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 12:14 )
Pranab Hazra
Disease-causing microbes that have become resistant to drug therapy are an increasing public health problem. Tuberculosis, gonorrhea, malaria, and childhood ear infections are just a few of the diseases that have become hard to treat with antibiotic drugs. Other facts: • Though food-producing animals are given antibiotic drugs for important therapeutic, disease prevention or production reasons, these drugs can cause microbes to become resistant to drugs used to treat human illness, ultimately making some human sicknesses harder to treat. • About 70 percent of bacteria that cause infections in hospitals are resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat infections. • Some organisms are resistant to all approved antibiotics and must be treated with experimental and potentially toxic drugs. • Some research has shown that antibiotics are given to patients more often than guidelines set by federal and other healthcare organizations recommend. For example, patients sometimes ask their doctors for antibiotics for a cold, cough, or the flu, all of which are viral and don't respond to antibiotics. Also, patients who are prescribed antibiotics but don't take the full dosing regimen can contribute to resistance. • Unless antibiotic resistance problems are detected as they emerge, and actions are taken to contain them, the world could be faced with previously treatable diseases that have again become untreatable, as in the days before antibiotics were developed.
( Posted: Tuesday , April 15, 2008 at 22:22 )
DR VK BANSAL
AB RESISTANCE IS WELL KNOWN BUT IN INDIA SHINNING MANY ABS SOLD BY INDIAN CHEMISTS -ACCORDING TO WELL DOCUMENTED SURVEY PUBLISHED IN HT- ARE SUBSTANDARD DATE EXPIRED AND AT TIMES DANGREOUS FAKES. AB BAD STORAGES BY HOSPITALS CHEMISTS CAUSE ABS TO DEGRADE CHEMICALLY RAPIDLY- PLEASE ENSURE PROPER VACCINATIONS AGAINST TYPHOID MENINGITIS HAEMOFL.INFLUENJ. HEPATITS A B C ABS HAVE NO ROLE.HOSPITALS NEED PROPER ANTISEPTIC CLEANING AND INFECTION CONTROL SYSTEMS- BADLY LACKING IN ALMOST ALL GOVT HOSPITALS SOCALLED NURSING HOMES SMALLER PRIVATE THIS AND THAT HOSPITALS- OVER 25% OF MIDDLE AGED INDIANS HAVE UNDIAGNOSED DIABETIS MELLITUS MAKING THEM PRONE TO REPEATED INFECTIONS OF EVERY SORT AND POOR AB RESPONSES. INDIANS -NO DISRESPECT- PLEASE DONT SPIT PAAN OR WHATEVER-COVER MOUTH WHEN COUGHING- COVER NOSE WHEN SNEEZING AND DONT WIPE RUNNING NOSES WITH BARE HANDS AND THEN TOUCH BABIES ETC.. THINK..OF OTHERS- TB SPREADS BY AIRBORN DROPLET INFECTION BY COUGHING INFECTED SPUTUM-1000 TB PATIENTS DIE DAILY IN INDIA- 3 JUMBO LOADS FULL..SORRY BUT HOMEOPATHY- HAKIMS HAVE NO ANTIBIOTIC REMEDIES WHATSOEVER. PROPER AYURVEDIC MEDS CAN BOOST BODY IMMUNITY AND CAN HAVE CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC EFFECTS..BUT SADLY- MOST HAKIMS HOMEOS VAIDS MBBS ETC ETC ARE -SORRY- QUACKS- THAT INCLUDES MANY QUOTA RAJAS PROFESSORS QUACKS- RIANS SOON TO COME- WITH DEADLY SEWAGE CONTAMINATED WATER FOOD BORN INFECTIONS AND VERY DEADLY MOSQUITO INSECTS BITES TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS.. SORRY LONG SPIEL BUT WHEN INFECTION STRIKES- SEEK PROPER DOC CONSULTATION-IF YOU CAN AFFORD THAT IS..
( Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 20:34 )
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