Sentences with phrase «than antibiotics such»

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The evolution of such resistance does not cause the organism to be more intrinsically virulent than strains of Staphylococcus aureus that have no antibiotic resistance, but resistance does make MRSA infection more difficult to treat with standard types of antibiotics and thus more dangerous.

An antibiotic may be needed if a fever is present for longer than 24 hours or if you are showing signs of a bacterial infection such as a cracked nipple, blood in your milk, or red streaks at the infection site.

When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.

«Even when an antibiotic is indicated, such as for strep throat or some ear infection, physicians often prescribe and antibiotic such as a Z - Pak, which can be less effective than amoxicillin.»

As such, B. bacteriovorus might be more selective than the antibiotics currently in use, and anti-bacterial treatment might not require the widespread extermination of the gut flora that is of importance to human health.»

Unfortunately, in more than 25 percent of cases studied, such prescriptions are useless because the infection stems from a virus, which can not be treated with antibiotics.

«Such an increase may be appropriate in the winter, when bacterial infections are common; however, there is also concern that many of these antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriately written for viral infections, which often does more harm than good.

The Salford team recently showed Vitamin C to be up to ten times more effective at stopping cancer cell growth than pharmaceuticals such as 2 - DG, but they say that when Vitamin C is combined with an antibiotic, it is up to ten times more effective, making it nearly 100 times more effective than 2 - DG.

The standard treatment for Lyme disease is a course of antibiotics, such as oral doxycycline if the patient is older than 8 years old or amoxicillin if the child is younger than 8 — typically two weeks for early symptoms and longer for late symptoms.

This is a desirable feature for a helper drug as it would reduce the risk of treatment failure due to factors other than antibiotic resistance (e.g. biofilms, immunosuppression, etc.), allow dose reduction for toxic antibiotics such as colistin, and possibly even prevent selection of resistant mutants» says Guardabassi.

Overuse of antibiotics could be fuelling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations.

As my symptoms were increasing to the point of needing two emergency - room visits for GI bleeding within a week of starting at Parsley, I was becoming more and more frustrated that conventional medicine could offer me nothing more than drugs — such as gut biome - destroying antibiotics and immunosuppressives — that negatively affected my body's ability to heal itself.

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Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations.

Moreover, the effectiveness of probiotics has been proven to improve vaginal health faster than other remedies (such as antibiotics).

Rather than treat with antibiotics, which are ineffective against viruses, Dr. Smith opts for natural antibacterial agents such as Cat's Claw, an herb from the Amazonian rain forest.

Antibiotics are far more mainstream than natural strategies such as cutting sugar or getting more zinc.

Consumers might seek solutions other than antibiotics because of recent negative publicity about everything from over-prescribing of antibiotics by physicians to antibiotics in food such as poultry and beef.

7) Many medications (such as corticosteroids, antibiotics, etc.) can be given in pill form rather than by injection.

Additionally, if your pet requires medication that must be compounded or a medication that could be purchased less expensively at a local pharmacy (such as antibiotics), we are more than happy to issue a prescription.

The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise from a long - term gonorrheal infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.