OT Vets and anti-biotics?

[Mary Fisher]

We've been with the same practice for very many years and have full confidence in their advice and the way they keep up to date with research.

But I'm not a doctor, perhaps you are ...

[Harry Bloomfield]

Mary Fisher was thinking very hard :

I have always understood that the way it works with A-B's is that the full course prescribed always has to be taken because it has to be enough kill all of the germs causing the infection. If not all are killed off, then the rest then become resistant to the particular A-B which was used.

[DM]

As it happens I am :-) ... but not in a medical capacity.

In any case the reduction of bacteria by use of antibiotics is more of a scientific matter. Doctors are not always good scientists, especially GP's.

I left the option open where perhaps your doctors are not totally wrong but your interpretation of what they mean may be questionable.

cheers

David

[Mary Fisher]

Yebbut knowledge changes. I always understood that Earth was flat ...

Mary

[Derek Geldard]

You were just plain wrong then and you are just plain wrong now.

"Often, people will stop taking the antibiotics as soon as they feel better, and not finish the complete course of treatment. This may reduce the effectiveness of the cure and can even cause the infection to worsen."

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"Research also suggests that the way antibiotics are used might contribute to an increase in resistance. So while doctors need to prescribe correctly, it is up to the patient not to misuse them. Different antibiotics are used to treat different bacteria and doses able to kill or stop the bacteria vary, so people should avoid taking their medical treatment into their own hands. "If you have an antibiotic prescribed, you should use it for the complete course of treatment. If you are haphazard about dosage regimes and you don't completely eradicate the germ concerned, a resistant organism is more likely to develop," says Dr Douglas Fleming, a GP and director of the Disease Surveillance Research Unit at the Royal College of GPs in Birmingham.

Derek

[Harry Bloomfield]

Mary Fisher expressed precisely :

The earth must be flat or we would all fall off it.

[Mary Fisher]

Thee must be something mde by Men in White Coats to prevent that :-)

For reasons not at all connected with this ng I must unsubsciribe. It's been nice knowing you all ...

Mary

[nightjar]

Not many of them go out to Africa each year for voluntary work, as my vet does, either.

Colin Bignell

[tony sayer]

In article , Harry Bloomfield scribeth thus

Yep!, thats the way they work and how it should be and people who don't complete courses are assisting further drug resistant strains to develop;(...

[PeterMcC]

If it's not too late...

...Cheers.