Upstate New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, who worked for decades on issues such as
overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and food safety in general, died March 16 at the age of 88.
Researching is showing
how overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial soap is creating an overly - sterile environment and depriving the body of beneficial organisms.
Overuse of antibiotics leads to the development of bacterial resistance and puts patients at risk for serious infections such as severe diarrheal infection due to Clostridium difficile (C Diff).
The rising incidence of serious allergies in children such as hay fever, asthma and reactions to various nuts appear to be a modern phenomenon and possibly resulting
from overuse of antibiotics and cortisones in treatment of what used to be minor ailments in generations past.
Overuse of antibiotics on farms isn't the only issue, but it's a huge contributor to the growing threat of a post-antibiotic era: when even minor infections won't be easily treatable with the drugs we have today.
But Hersh believes this second factor is changing, due in part to major efforts to educate people about the problems associated
with overuse of antibiotics, such as CDC's «Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work» program.
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Reducing overuse of antibiotics for ARTIs in adults is a clinical priority and a High Value Care way to improve quality of care, lower health care costs, and slow and / or prevent the continued rise in antibiotic resistance.»
«Reducing
overuse of antibiotics for ARTIs in adults is a clinical priority and a High Value Care way to improve quality of care, lower health care costs, and slow and / or prevent the continued rise in antibiotic resistance,» he added.
If that's the case, shouldn't we then be particularly worried about documented instances of the
gross overuse of antibiotics in Chinese poultry?
Professor Martin Gulliford, lead author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London, said: «
Overuse of antibiotics now may result in increasing infections by resistant bacteria in the future.
NICE acknowledges this and says it plans to publish further material next year to help convince the public that
overuse of antibiotics imperils the future of medicine.
Yale University School of Medicine neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) significantly reduced the number of cases of late - onset sepsis, a leading cause of death among pre-term infants, by implementing guidelines designed to
eliminate overuse of antibiotics, according to new research published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
«But to solve the pressing problems that require public acceptance of well - established science — from global warming to vaccinations to the
increasing overuse of antibiotics — scientists must indeed inspire more public faith in their methods and their mutually enforced trustworthiness.»
Their spread is promoted by the use of antibiotics and it is
massive overuse of antibiotics that is the main factor promoting the spread of diseases that can not be treated by antibiotics (Bennett and others 2004, Saylers 1996, Salyers, Whitt 2005).
Now, Duke University researchers are developing a blood test to more easily tell when a respiratory illness is due to a virus and not a bacterial infection, hoping to cut the
dangerous overuse of antibiotics and speed the right diagnosis.
Bacteria are changing in response to the
extensive overuse of antibiotics in medicine and the livestock industry, rendering these medicines ineffective while endangering the people who need them most.
They have also found evidence that first world eaters may have brought this upon themselves
through overuse of antibiotics, processed foods and anti-bacterial sanitisers.
To curb the
rampant overuse of antibiotics in veterinary medicine, only pets with a life - threatening illness or injury that must be treated with antibiotics should be prescribed these drugs.
It can help with sugar cravings, bloating, recurrent sore tummies, healing the gut (
from overuse of antibiotics) which also can help with symptoms like ADHD and tics.
Chalk up yet another reason to oppose factory farming: BBC News reports that scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found evidence that
overuse of antibiotics on farm animals is leading to an increase in antibiotic - resistant human urinary tract infections.
The move follows warnings from the World Health Organisation that the world is moving towards a post-antibiotic era in which many infections would no longer be treatable because of
the overuse of antibiotics.
The idea:
Overuse of antibiotics and unsustainable meat production are a risk for investors and the planet.
Overuse of antibiotics in fish farming (and domestic land animals) is implicated in antimicrobial resistance in humans, although this is probably only a problem in poorly managed and less - regulated systems in the developing world.
While meant to treat a different affection,
overuse of antibiotics can actually lower out immune system causing also an immunity to antibiotics and a higher risk to more serious diseases.
The overuse of antibiotics can also destroy the good bacteria in our gut.
Such
overuse of antibiotics in farm animals has led to the rise of drug - resistant «superbugs», which the World Health Organization has declared a «global health emergency».
Already there are signs of
the overuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry resulting in antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria emerging.
These bacteria can result from
the overuse of antibiotics and can be passed to humans who consume the products.
Because, health officials say,
the overuse of antibiotics has contributed to the resistance staph bacterium have developed to the most common antibiotics.
This unnecessary or
overuse of antibiotics can make it more likely that antibiotics won't work when your child has a bacterial infection does really need them.
This combined with
the overuse of antibiotics may cause serious problems for this next generation in later life.