Antibiotic Resistance 'one Of The Most Dangerous Global Crises Facing Modern World'

[naomi24]

//Public Health England (PHE) has launched the new "Keep Antibiotics Working" campaign to tackle the growing resistance to the drugs.

TV and radio adverts and posters have been produced to discourage patients from asking their GPs for antibiotics as the NHS heads into the busy winter period.//

http://news.sky.com/story/campaign-urges-people-to-stop-asking-for-antibiotics-to-prevent-apocalypse-11094616

Do you often ask your GP for antibiotics?

[donny48]

Morning Minty XXOOXX,

"you come up to me Donny..I'll take care of you. "
There is just one small alteration to make it perfect.

[Oleanda]

I am sick and tired of the media blaming the patients for this, it is the doctors who are to blame for handing out stuff that they know won't work.

[dannyk13]

Coughing up bright green lumps and breathing worse than usual.

[dannyk13]

^ for Sqad^

[bhg481]

I would never dream of telling the doctor either what was wrong with me or what medication I require. He's the expert; it's his job to diagnose my symptoms and prescribe medication, if needed.

[murraymints]

morning Donny XX..OO..XX... excuse the aside Naomi

[NoMercy]

I've had to have repeated courses of antibiotics due to UTIs. If left untreated they can lead to serious kidney damage.

Last time I had a throat infection I went to the Dr after suffering for a week. He told me it was viral and there was no indication for antibiotics. A week later I flew to Croatia and still couldn't swallow and I was maxing out on painkillers to cope. In desperation I paid to see a Croat Dr who told me my throat was badly infected and prescribed antibiotics which started to work within hours. All the painkillers I was taking masked the pain of the ectopic pregnancy that I was also suffering from at the time.

[Sqad]

danny....I would go 100% with the increasing difficulty in breathing but would not put too much emphasis on the colour change.
But all in all danny.......10 out of 10 for your answer......;-)

[NoMercy]

Actually, it's not so much over prescribing antibiotics, it's patients not finishing the courses due to unpleasant side effects. When you don't finish a course and wipe the infection out, it develops resistance.

[Islay]

I don’t but spent about 18 months having frequent infections so was in them almost every month, am now allergic to penicillin so have not needed to see how good the non penicillin antibiotics are.
However my MIL is on them constantly her GP hands them out like sweeties, she rings them up says she has a cold and there is a script waiting for her!

[Sqad]

NoMercy ^^^^...that is a myth.

[NoMercy]

I don't think it is Sqad. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I don't think half-treating bacterial infections does much to help prevent evolution of superbugs.

[ummmm]

I don't think I've ever finished a course of antibiotics. Usually within 2 days I feel back to normal.

[Sqad]

NoM....I hate links to websites but:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883545

[NoMercy]

Sorry, Sqad, it seems you need a log in and password for that.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, I am not questioning your expertise, but why do the patients notes accompanying antibiotics always tell you to finish the course.

[Sqad]

NoM
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883545

That's odd.....mine didn't.....try it again.
If you have problems with it, it gives evidence t suggest that the shorter the time the antibiotic is in contact with the organism, the less chance there is of organism resistance.
That was not what i wast taught...but medicine moves on it seems.

[Sqad]

danny....we have crossed posts.
Those instructions are based on tradition....all Drs were taught that but it hasn't been backed up by modern and up top date studies (as illustrated by my link to NoM, which she can't open.)

[dannyk13]

Fair enough Sqad.

[bhg481]

I, too, can't get to the link. I think that a few months ago the thinking on antibiotics was changed; they always used to tell you to complete the course but they have now changed their minds.