the real culprits when it comes to antibiotic abuses ... envelope please

[pellicle]

http://www.newscientist.com/article...rom-tonnes-of-antibiotics-fed-to-animals.html
In the first estimate of its kind, researchers calculate that farmers globally feed 63,000 tonnes of antibiotics to chickens, pigs and cattle every year – and that will climb by 67 per cent, to 106,000 tonnes, by 2030.
Antibiotics fed to livestock encourage the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which have repeatedly been linked to human infections.

Some 80 per cent of the antibiotics consumed in the US go to livestock, but there were no figures for global consumption.

China is the worst offender, with its livestock consuming 15,000 tonnes a year, 50 per cent more than the US, the next on the list. Surprisingly, given the 2011 European Union ban on antibiotic growth-promoters, Germany is the fourth-highest consumer.


food for thought

 

[cldlhd]

I agree but with the size, and money, or corporate farms the odds of getting the practice outlawed seems unfortunately dim.

 

[skeptic49]

go vegetarian/vegan...avoid putting animal flesh and drugs in your body

 

[pellicle]

I agree but with the size, and money, or corporate farms the odds of getting the practice outlawed seems unfortunately dim.

Yeah I know, I was mainly thinking that victimising us valvers is pathetic in the grand scheme

 

[epstns]

It is not just valvers being denied antibiotics. I know several relatives who are prone to sinus infections. After the first couple of doctor visits for azithromycin ("Z-Pack"), the docs start saying that they cannot prescribe the antibiotic again so "soon." So the patient remains in misery, untreated, as there is nothing else that knocks out their infections. Some have taken to "doctor-shopping" where they just go to another doctor in a different practice, who doesn't know that the previous doc prescribed then denied antibiotics.

Some system.

 

[Paleowoman]

Yeah I know, I was mainly thinking that victimising us valvers is pathetic in the grand scheme

Hear, hear. I've now had two lots of invasive dental treatment this year without antibiotic prophylaxisis - this being the UK with it's stupid NICE regulations. I have now been given a prescription for antibiotic prophylaxis but the horse has already bolted. I had a CRP test the week before last and it was 87 !!! I can tell you I was very scared. It dropped to 5 last Thursday. Who knows what it's doing now, going up and down maybe. Will be speaking to a good doctor tomorrow.

 

[cldlhd]

I just left my follow up with my surgeon and fortunately they wrote me prescriptions for my next 2 dental cleanings.

 

[epstns]

My dentist is more than happy to write my prescriptions for the clindamycin I use. She and I both feel that it is better to be safe than sorry, and our healthcare system allows us the choice. Even if my medical insurance refused payment for the meds, the generic clindamycin would be inexpensive.