Dangerous Outbreak of Common Sense

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Just look at this!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... tions.html

Finally, an initiative to cut down the shameful waste of giving anti-biotics to people who don't actually need them and receive no more than placebo benefit from swallowing them. Whatever next!

[Rod in Japan]

That's good. Next maybe they'll stop dosing up animals with antibiotics too.

[red]

yes! drives me mad when someone tells me about their cold and how the dr would not give them anything.. until they hassled now they have antibiotics but its not touching it.. blah blah.. of course the antibots aren't touching it.. its a cold!! and by handing it out unnecessarily you only develop tougher bugs...

Having said that.. there can be a backlash against the people that really do need the drugs - up until recent years, my son used to have terrible ear infections. it would start with a cold, but the infection would come next, and he would be really really ill.. temps of 105F etc, and then his ear drum would burst. only when the ENT said that if this continued there would be perm hearing loss.. could develop into mastoiditus, and that in turn could develop into brain damage (we are not talking ordinary ear infections here!) and he wrote that son should always receive anti bots for ear infections. But each time we went to the dr.. with goo pouring out of said ear.. they would hesitate, saying 'lets see how it goes' and then i would make them look at records.. and they would see pages and pages of ear infects.. and note from ENT. unless it was a Sunday and we saw duty Dr with no computer.. then i had to make a big deal.... I worry that people that actually need the antibots will have them refused.. whilst those that seem to have a pet Dr under their thumb continue to get drugs they dont need, just cos they put over a good story...

[The Riff-Raff Element]

That's good. Next maybe they'll stop dosing up animals with antibiotics too.

Hope springs eternal!

[snapdragon]

That's good. Next maybe they'll stop dosing up animals with antibiotics too.

Hope springs eternal!

nod nod I fervently hope for that one

[marshlander]

That's good. Next maybe they'll stop dosing up animals with antibiotics too.

Hope springs eternal!

nod nod I fervently hope for that one

It's only cos the poor bu88ers are kept in such discusting conditions that they're pumped full of antibiotics - I was going to say - to stop them catching something but it's prolly more the money they would lose if animals were lost than they welfare or suffering of the anilmal in some farms We need more widespread changes to the way animals are kept.

[Wombat]

It's only cos the poor bu88ers are kept in such discusting conditions that they're pumped full of antibiotics - I was going to say - to stop them catching something but it's prolly more the money they would lose if animals were lost than they welfare or suffering of the anilmal in some farms We need more widespread changes to the way animals are kept.

Actually some bright spark found that you get an increase in production if you feed 'em antibiotics, so in the eternal quest for a dollar (or pound) they will keep it up so long as it makes them more money........sad but true!

Nev

[the.fee.fairy]

Hmmm...common sense in one respect, but a complete lack of it in another!

I also suffer really badly with ear trouble - i have otitis externa (its like eczema in the ear canal) which leads to nasty infections that mean i can lose my hearing and the ability to turn my neck for weeks! The only thing that shifts them is a course of oral antibiotics, and external drop antibiotics.

Luckily, i have it on my records that if i request a repeat of the steroid ear drops, i can have them because they can prevent the ear infection happening in the first place - i discussed it with the doctor. I use them for 2 or 3 days, twice a day if my ears feel like they're going to infect, or if they've been a stuffy.

it does make me worry that doctors will take the advice carte blanche and not give the medication to people who need it.

i do think that the whole GP thing should be looked at anyway - here, its impossible to book an appointment in advance, and if you work shifts, you can forget seeing a doctor! I can't see a doctor after midday (i work night shifts...) because they're all appointments that were booked weeks ago. so, that means that if i'm ill enough to go to the doc, i need to get up at 8:30am (after working nights...) and try to make an appointment then.

[Sian]

Yeah, and the same people complain when MRSA comes on the scene...

[Smooth Hound]

It's only cos the poor bu88ers are kept in such discusting conditions that they're pumped full of antibiotics - I was going to say - to stop them catching something but it's prolly more the money they would lose if animals were lost than they welfare or suffering of the anilmal in some farms We need more widespread changes to the way animals are kept.

Actually some bright spark found that you get an increase in production if you feed 'em antibiotics, so in the eternal quest for a dollar (or pound) they will keep it up so long as it makes them more money........sad but true!

Nev

less vet bills as well