The threat of Antibiotics abuse

1. Antibiotics
Crisis
Time bomb
clicking
Prof. BM Hegd e-Former VC-MAHE-Manipal

2. There is no pill
For all ills
But there is an
ill followed by
The use of
Every pill

3. One very common germ, the
Streptococcus was the most
sensitive germ killed by
Penicillin. 95% germs killed
by Penicillin initially & now
95% of the same germs are
resistant to Penicillin.

4. The black death due to
plague in Europe of 16th Cen.
& White death so called
because killed most with
extreme anaemia by
Tuberculosis are greatest
human tragedies.

5. Gravity is very high that Royal
College of Physicians of London
met to discuss clinical effects
of Anti-microbial resistance on
28th Feb 2001. About 15000
people died in Britain-1999 due
to germs resistant to all
antibiotics-Called Super BUGS.

6. One of the biggest Hospital of
the country Portsmouth
Hospitals NHS Trust has been
forced to shut down its OTs due
to Super Bugs. At Queen
Alexandria Hospital, the Ortho
surgeons could not perform any
surgery due to Super Bugs.

7. Another leading authority in the
field Prof. Hugh Pennington of
Aberdeen University feels next
biggest problem is drug resistant
TB. Scotland had TB outbreak.
Russian prisons have many
inmates with drug resistant TB
without proper treatment. This is
due to Antibiotics over prescription.

8. Antibiotics given to minor viral
illness in childhood alters body’s
immune system - cytokine response
to infections and may trigger for
asthma in later life in majority. Slum
dwellers’ children when they had
enough to eat, have very low
incidence of health problems,
robust & healthy.

9. Other dangers of antibiotics are in
commercial fields like farming & dairy.
Broiler sheds use lot of antibiotics to
treat & prevent infections. The amount
used far outweighs all that is used in
hospitals & OTs. Today it takes 6 weeks
to get a bird to dinning table against
normal 12-14 weeks with huge dose of
antibiotics & hormones to fatten the
birds.

10. Mastitis in cows is another danger.
The incidence is about 10%. The
huge amount of antibiotics like
Ciprofloxacin into the udder makes
the milk not potable for 1 week. The
House of Lords in Britain worried
about large scale use of antibiotics
in farming & resistance and
reducing yield. Very dangerous.

11. In a shocking incidence recently at the
Prince Edward Hospital in Wales a 60 yr old
patient developed antibiotic resistant
infection on his leg. Doctors had go back to
nature to get maggots to help cure that
infection. Now they are routinely culturing
maggots to treat resistant infections. In
nature this is very common way of
controlling infections, evident during the
second world war and earlier.

12. Minor wounds, injuries, bruises etc could
be smeared with fresh, clean, pure honey.
This gives a coating & prevent germs
getting in and prevent multiplication of
existing germs. 3 times a day for 1 week
gives good results. The time bomb of
resistant TB epidemic to burst any time.
The west is in the worst TB epidemics in
last 2 decades. The ugly combination of
HIV/ Resistant TB is threatening the human
race in sub Sahara region.

13. Prof. JR Bignall-Institute of Chest Diseases-
Brampton Hospital, London was requested
by Nehru’s Govt. in 1956 to give a report on
TB situation in India. His report suggested
to ban the use of all antibiotics for 10 yrs.
Patients are allowed to have conventional
treatments to avoid abuse by quacks
leading to resistant TB is valid even today
not only for India but to entire globe.

14. Govt seriously think of sanatoria, good
nutritious food, complete rest and a
healthy green environment will go a long
way fighting TB. Earlier we wake up from
our deep slumber the better for our
progeny. We have never been using
antibiotics scientifically for well over half
a century and the results could be
disastrous to say the least.
Prevention is always better

15. For more info
KSN Murthy
Wellness Consultant
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