Dangerous Antibiotics?:
“258 million prescriptions of antibiotics/year,
almost one per person in the USA:
Antibiotics may be dangerous
harming human cells DNA, proteins and lipids”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
7-8-2013
My Story:
I was talking to my friend on the phone when she suddenly said, “I feel so weak.” She had just started a Z-pack, a round of antibiotic. This was the first time I had heard of a side effect other then having the “runs” from taking an antibiotic.
It seems in the Untied States there are more people on antibiotics then off. Now it is becoming evident that there is more then simple side effects from a course of antibiotics, there could be real damage to the very cells of a human body.
258 million prescriptions of antibiotics in the Untied States in 2010:
One study(2) found in 2010 there were 258 million prescriptions of antibiotics were prescribed by medical care professionals in the Untied States with the South having 936 prescriptions per 1,000 persons and the West having 693 prescriptions per 1,000 persons with more prescriptions among the age groups younger than 10 years and 65 years or over.
Associated Press (1) released information about prescription antibiotics may be harming some people. Antibiotics have been commonly used since the 1940’s. Now there is a mind boggling 4 out of 5 people in the Untied States who are given an antibiotic prescription each year. Over use may have taken away the strength of antibiotics. There is no scientific consensus on the best level of antibiotic prescribed with some experts finding the results of the amount of prescribed antibiotics disturbing and most likely excessive even in the states with lower usage. Antibiotics do work they get rid of the infection from pneumonia to sexually spread diseases. However many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics making the antibiotics powerless with the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking 20 or more strains of resistant bacteria.
In a population of almost 309 million with the 258 million that is almost 1 prescription per person in the Untied States with West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee being more than one prescription per person on average where about 1,200 were written for every 1,000 people. At the low end were Alaska, Oregon and California, where prescriptions were at or below 600. Reaches thought this difference may be do to the fact Southerner’s are subject to infections more often and have the highest rates of obesity and diabetes, then other parts of the Untied States.
New study from Harvard shows antibiotics can harm human cell damaging the DNA, proteins, and lipids:
Harvard education (1) gives new insight that antibiotics may damage human cells by causing an oxidative stress in cells damaging to DNA, proteins and lipids in human cells. Doctor’s hand out prescriptions freely for antibiotics in the Untied States thinking they are harmless to the human tissue and affecting bacteria. Over time reports of side effects from different antibiotics include ringing in the ear, inner-ear problems, hearing loss, negative impact on kidney function, diarrhea and more. Researchers suspect the antibiotics start an oxidative stress which causes the cell to produce a “chemically reactive oxygen molecules” which can damage the bacteria’s DNA and enzymes along with the human cell’s membrane which holds the cell together. It was also discover the way an antibiotic works by crating an oxidative stress in bacteria. The researchers wonder if it is affecting other bacterium that are beneficial to humans creating a negative affect.
The researchers tested three antibiotics with each causing oxidative stress in cultured human cells with the first 6 hours being “safe” and sometime after 6 hours with the longer term showing up around four days causing damage to the DNA, proteins and lipids. Studies done on mice showed the same effects of damage to the animal‘s lipids causing a the levels of natural antioxidants to drop a sign of oxidative stress which weakens the body’s defenses.
One of the researchers, Collins said, "doctors should only prescribe antibiotics when they're called for, and patients should only ask for antibiotics when they have a serious bacterial infection,"
Antibiotics do not always work:
According to the CDC (4) antibiotics don’t work on colds, flu, most sore throats (not caused by strep), and bronchitis are caused by viruses and taking an antibiotic may only harm you.
The CDC (5) also warns that inappropriate use of antibiotics used for acne may also create resistant bacteria.
Final words:
Antibiotics, may sometimes be a necessary as a last resort. Clearly the Untied States is not using antibiotics as a last resort with 258 million prescriptions per year. Are doctor‘s just too easy to convince there is a need for an antibiotic and hand them out freely because they may think it only harms bacteria, not human tissue?
The over use of antibiotics may be creating more problems then it solves. Rushing for that small little pill may be fine in the first 6 hours, but after that it may be doing it’s job too well by damaging the DNA, protein and lipids of the human cell. Who takes antibiotics for only 6 hours?
There are times that a person may need an antibiotic, but I question weather the doctor’s or the patients are doing there best to try the first line of defense like just getting plenty of water to drink to help the body operate, especially if the person has a fever they may be using up much more then they are taking in leaving the body at a deficits with a loss of hydration.
So many people I know don’t understand the fact that the antibiotics can’t help all thing. And if some one is taking an antibiotic with out major infection from bacteria they are most likely hurting themselves instead of helping.
It may be best to save an antibiotic for an emergency when there is a true need with the fact that if there is damage to the human cell that is better than the fact the person may be permanently damaged or die from an infection run rampant. Things like acne may not be a good enough reason to risk the damage an antibiotic can do over time. The fact a person is on an antibiotic for an extended period of time should give each of us a moment to pause to a assess the risk and the benefit. There are many other solutions besides antibiotics. Does the average doctor look beyond the prescription pad for answers? In my experience it is the first thing they look for to “solve” the symptom at hand.
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Sources:
(1) http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/117/
(2) http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1212055
(3) http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/know-and-do.html
(4) http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/know-and-do.html
(5) http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/antibiotic-resistance-faqs.html
(6) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896384/
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