[Video] How Antibiotics Transform Bacteria Into Superbugs

Interesting video:

/www.honeycolony.com/article/shocking-video-how-antibiotics-transform-bacteria-into-superbugs

NOTE: This is not to suggest that one shouldn't use antibiotics. Clearly, there are instances where antibiotics are needed and can be life-saving. This video is simply to illustrate how bacteria can mutate and survive very high doses of antibiotics.

I grew up in a house where the rule was to take our shoes off at the door.
But they weren’t taken off outside - we were allowed to come in and remove them.

That’s how it is in my home too.

When our son was born and learning to crawl - it really sunk in that it was a good decision.

The challenge is when guests come over and want to walk in with shoes on - do you insist they take them off?

We live on a corner lot and people like to walk their dogs with looonnggg leashes - so you can imagine what’s on the bottom of my shoes when I’ve been on the front lawn .

The Dude Abides said...

Girlie said...
The challenge is when guests come over and want to walk in with shoes on - do you insist they take them off?

Personally, I would/do.

Girlie said...
We live on a corner lot and people like to walk their dogs with looonnggg leashes - so you can imagine what’s on the bottom of my shoes when I’ve been on the front lawn.

Ticks? ;-)

haha - good one Dude - I have only seen one tick ever....it happened to be on the top of my head a couple of summers ago.

(and no, I can't see the top of my head...but it got brushed off my head by my hubby.)

The Dude Abides said...
Interesting video:

/www.honeycolony.com/article/shocking-video-how-antibiotics-transform-bacteria-into-superbugs

NOTE: This is not to suggest that one shouldn't use antibiotics. Clearly, there are instances where antibiotics are needed and can be life-saving. This video is simply to illustrate how bacteria can mutate and survive very high doses of antibiotics.

well im thankful antibiotics exist. after trying herbs for 2 years it's antibiotics that fixed my health... 9 months of abx with almost no side effects, that's pretty good. well let's see how much it holds but really ... kudos to antibiotics

Thanks for posting this The Dude!

Add me to the list of people who would never take an antibiotic especially after learning about much better options without the side effects. There are herbs and then there are other types of herbs as they are all different. I feel very lucky that the remedies I took worked for me as I was not tested.

I just wanted to add below how certain classes of abx trigger types of viruses that infect bacteria:

www.townsendletter.com/April2007/antibioticlyme0407.htm

As mentioned in 'Lyme Toxins: the Primary Cause of Your Symptoms,' (Townsend Letter, April 2007), certain classes of antibiotics can activate bacteriophages, viruses. An astonishing new finding was released by John Travis in Science News (July 2003;164). Travis reported that research performed by John F. Prescott found that certain antibiotics, such as the fluoroquinolones, the class of antibiotics that includes the name-brands and generic brands of Levaquin™, Cipro™, Tequin™, and Avelox™, actually are known to trigger a type of virus called bacteriophages (viruses that can infect bacteria), to change the genetic sequencing of the bacteria, causing the bacterium they have infected to start producing toxins. These viruses can act as genetic delivery vans, invading bacteria, such as spirochetes, and often lying dormant until activated by a change in the host (your body) environment. Once activated, these viruses insert their toxin-generating genes into the bacterial chromosomes. These viruses can turn basically harmless bacterium into killers through this genetic sequencing of toxins (Travis 2003).

So now we see that not only are these toxins released through the die-off of bacteria, and not only can antibiotics actually increase the production of the toxins, but these viruses can cause the bacteria to rupture spilling their toxins into the body (Waldor 2004). Other antibiotic classes need to be studied in this same manner to verify their safety.

The Barefoot Denise