There is some truth that antibiotics will become less effective. It is a huge part of why I will try some homeopathic remedies first, but even that is something thats controversial as far as effectiveness goes. I think that whenever a person is wore down and stressed to begin with the chances of a minor issue becoming a potential infection is just that much worse. It just goes to show the best thing is simply to try to remain healthy and get enough rest. I think over all people do not get enough rest in the modern world, the demands on the individual is sometimes 24/7and the first thing to go is sleep. The other thing I feel might slant these results is that nutrition tends to be very poor. All the additives and junk in the food just make you weaker and more susceptible to who knows what sort of health issues. Weight, lack of exercise , it all contributes.
Its not pretty and unfortunately it is happening. Our bodies are becoming more and more immune to antibiotics. Even future generations because they are inheriting the factors from their parents. Many feel this happen because at one time antibiotics were prescribed for just about everything including the common cold and acne. Now doctors are trying to carck down on this and aren't prescirbing the way they use to, but its way too little too late to crack down now.
Antibiotics are way over used. Every time a doctor is unsure of what is going on he hands out antibiotics. Some people actually even ask for antibiotics for different viral diseases. It is fed to live stock as a preventative and gets into our food supply. We now have a growing amount of bacteria that are immune to pharmaceuticals. It is about time to fall back to the non pharmaceutical protection from diseases. There is many herbs that have shown for years that they work [echinacea, cat's claw, boswellia, and many more]. There is certain minerals like copper and silver that have anti parasite capabilities. There has been no virus or bacteria which has built up an immunity to silver. There is also electricity this was shown by Dr. Bob Beck to kill viruses and bacteria at micro currents and be harmless to the body. Last was Dr Raymond Rife who used frequencies to kill virus , bacteria, and even cancer even proving it to the AMA in 1930s. Ozone used in many countries around the world but in the US the medical system will not except it. It is probably time to not believe that the medical system is going to come to our aid because they are the ones calling all this quackery as they fail.
During a hernia operation at a hospital on the Texas-Mexico border (where drug-resistant bacteria are more common than in many other parts of the country), I ended up with one. An operation that would ordinarily result in a few days in the hospital, at most, and is sometimes done as outpatient surgery, I was hospitalized for nearly seven weeks, and given nutrition through an IV. They had to design an antibiotic for the specific bacteria that I had. Even after seven weeks, they wouldn't discharge me unless I promised to continue taking the designer antibiotics (three per day at $200 apiece) for ten days. Doctors are starting to be more resistant to prescribing antibiotics for everything, but it might be a matter of too little, too late. Plus, there is a great deal of pressure from patients and the parents of patients who want every sniff and sniffle to be treated with a medication, most of whom also do their very best to keep their children away from any chance of coming into contract with a germ, the result being a significant reduction the child's immune system capabilities. Farm kids who walk barefoot through fields and yards with farm animals have the highest immune systems.
I grew up on a farm. I don't believe I ever saw a doctor as a child, at least not after I reached an age where I would have been aware of it, other than for a physical. I clearly remember going to a dentist a few times, so I think I would have remembered a doctor. The joke was that we didn't go to the doctor as long as we were still breathing. I didn't have any serious illnesses as a child. I had the flu once, and was in bed for a few days. I can remember feeling pretty miserable but the flu was diagnosed by my mother, and having the flu wasn't considered to be a dire problem at the time, as they make it out to be now. Yes, it was something that people kept a close eye on, because there was a possibility of death, but most everything carries a possibility of death. My older brother had measles once, I can remember that, but I never have. I don't think he saw a doctor for that either. We walked around barefoot for much of the summer, including playing in the barn and in the fields, where we had horses, cows, chickens, and other assorted animals. I jumped off of a shed once and landed on a nail that was sticking out of a board that I didn't see because it was covered by long grass and weeds. When I picked my foot up, the board came with it, so the nail was deep in my foot. To my memory, it went all the way through but my memory tends to exaggerate things sometimes so I won't swear to that. My dad cleaned it up, poured iodine in it, bandaged it, and I was good to go. Yes, he would check it out for any signs of infection, but I didn't see a doctor for that, nor did I get a tetanus shot. Growing up, I never once met anyone who had asthma, and now it seems as if at least one in every ten kids is taking an asthma medication. No one that I knew of was allergic to peanuts and I didn't even know that was a possibility until I was much older. Now, we have people who are allergic to everything imaginable. I know that this covers more issues than antibiotics, but antibiotics are a part of it. Antibiotics weren't commonly used when I was a young child. I am reading that penicillin was discovered in the 1920s and I wasn't born until 1951, but I was in what they would call junior high today, or in high school, when I began hearing about penicillin being prescribed for everything imaginable. As far as I know, the first time I ever saw a doctor was when I had to have a physical for Boy Scout camp, and there wasn't much involved in that.
Because of discovering that I have low thyroid issues, I have been reading about treating the thyroid with natural medications. Iodine is important for every hormone that the body produces, and when we are low on iodine, it can cause not only hypothyroidism; but also many other diseases, depending on which other hormones are not being correctly manufactured. Iodine is also important in prevention of cancer, and can contribute to both heart failure and atrial fibrillation; so the body needs iodine in many other ways as well. Iodine will kill any kind of virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite, and can replace antibiotics for many uses. As Ken mentioned, I also remember my mom putting iodine on any cuts or scrapes that I got growing up. In fact, I also stepped on a rusty nail, and remember having it doctored with iodine until it healed up. It stung, and I watched out for any kind of nails very carefully after that, although the one I stepped on was also in weeds where I couldn't see it. http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=1413057