Short courses of antibiotics have long-term impact on microbial flora of human gut
Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to two years after treatment, say scientists writing in the latest issue of Microbiology, published on 3 November.
2) Treatment of the common cold or allergy symptoms with antibiotics is inappropriate and may contribute to the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria
3) The unnecessary ordering of antibiotics exposes a patient to the risks of antibiotic side effects. In many cases this includes stomach upset, diarrhea and a host of other possible effects.
4) Drug allergy most often develops from a previous exposure. The sensitization process is silent (meaning you don’t feel it).
So over the years, our PATM is just getting worse… the longer you have PATM the more resistant the microbes and worse shape the gut lining. So it’s no surprise to me that young ones respond quickly to treatment and those that have had it for over a decade or more, in most cases don’t feel anything from popular treatments. Their gut linings have gotten so bad that it needs application for months or years to show any sign of success, and in most cases give up within weeks.
When he accepted the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming warned that “there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to nonlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/antibiotics-and-the-meat-we-eat.html?_r=0
(Although I don't usually present media papers, the above NYT Opinion was written by David A.
I had a infection living in my sinuses for 5 years, resistant to all the antibiotics, and corticosteroids that I took, until I flushed it out with the technique I developed. It merely proves the Mayo Clinic theory.
it is feeding off the antibiotics and in my mind i will never get well. and i am sure with being on 4 sets of antibiotics, this bug has just grown resistant to anything and will kill me. i don not relish a long suffocating phegmy death. any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. it's been over 3 1/2 months i have had this horrible thing.
Pseudomonas is typically a very hard bacteria to kill and becomes drug resistant when antibiotics are used very often. My daughter had pseudomonas several months ago and had to have her ear swabbed and cultured. The pseudomonas was resistant to all the drug classses but the newest cyclosporin. She has had chronic ear infections since she was a baby (she's 13).
Under ordinary gastrointestinal conditions, why would the stomach acid not kill all these microbes (molds, bacteria, virii, etc)?
If not killed, all these microbes presumably multiply. So why are yeasts so much more uncomfortable for you than molds etc?
As much as I want to help with regards to your question on antibiotics, it is important to note that antibiotics are prescribed based on the working diagnosis and the most likely organisms causing your condition.
Also, it is important to take note of your age and other underlying medical conditions. Let us wait for the results of the culture as this will help guide the next step of treatment.
A kidney, ureter and bladder CT scan will be able to help visualize structures involved.
If anyone has used the following antibiotics, please let us know what happened? I don’t expect it to heal patm, even though it has a small chance of succeeding, but it would provide important information.
1. Ampicillin
2. Chloramphenicol
3. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
4. Amoxicillin
5. Ciprofloxacin
6. Vancomycin
7. Fidaxomicin
I’ve seen posts of at least two people in the past who claimed they were cured with metronidazole but then it returned months later.
Could it be that I reacted positively to Amoxil-Clav and me being symptom free was due to its residual effect? Could it be that bacteria became resistant to Amoxicillin? I was taking 2000mg Amoxicilin a day. I also made quite a break when changing medication. I took Amox-Clav pills at 9 in the evening, and next dose of antibiotic at 2pm another day.
Also sometimes doctors miss yeast infections because some types of yeast are resistant to being cultured outside the body. Antibiotics generally make yeast worse, so maybe you should try antifungals (from your doctor). ON your own, you also might try unsweetened cranberry juice. It's pretty good for yeast (and somewhat good for many other microbes).
I finished this course of antibiotics about a week and a half ago, and went in for my (hopefully) final set of swabs today. Results will be available early next week. Although I've been given pretty hardcore antibiotics, I'm not entirely sure that they have worked, and I think I might still be Chlamydia positive. Does anybody know of any cases where the Chlamydia has been drug resistant? And if so, how was the Chlamydia treated?
This usually happens to people who put their lips onto a penis (the penis may or may not appear to have red skin) but the penis does spread a skin bacteria it has picked up from having had skin to skin contact with other partner' genitals or mucous membranes. It may only be a vaginal yeast infection because yeast doesn't know the difference between vaginas, penis, or mouth. Vagasil cream applied to the lips for a couple weeks might cure you if you don't have a resistant strain.
I've had a UTI that is a resistant little bugger. Got a culture..took Ceftin for 7 days. Must not have gone away, and now am on Macrobid for 7 days. 2 pills left and I still have the infection. Doctor said I would likely need IV Antibiotics and wants me to come in on Friday to do another culture before they do that. Here's my question..they didn't give me a lot of information on that. Has anyone else had IV antibiotics? Do you have to be hospitalized to get them?
Four days ago I finished antibiotics for cervisitis, vaginosis, and a fungal infection, no I am having a burning, itchy, brown clumpy discharge. My question is, Why are the symptoms occuring after and what could this be?
what I wanted to know is ...... both of these are resistant to antibiotics......are they both resistant to penecillins and if so is there any point in ever giving her penecillin antibiotics for any infection over the years or should we use a different family of antibiotics? In other words ....could she be inherently/genetically (probably wrong words) resistant to penecillin?????
Poor mite also has had chicken pox, hepatitis A, chest infection for at least 5 weeks but now gone thank god.
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