A childs scratched knee from falling off their bike, common bladder infections among the elderly in care homes and routine surgery to replace broken hips could all become fatal as antibiotics are becoming increasingly useless, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The crisis is bigger and more urgent than the Aids epidemic of the 1980s, it was warned. The Food Doctor says there are times in our lives when we all may require antibiotics – they are surely one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century – however, we agree with this statement by the ECDC that the use of antibiotics should be reserved for infections and illnesses where they are genuinely required. One of the side effects of taking antibiotics is that they attack the friendly bacteria that are a normal part of the digestive system. There are believed to be about one hundred trillion bacteria living in the gastro-intestinal tract, and there are 400 to 500 known different types, many having several different strains. A large group of these bacteria have beneficial health properties and are known as “healthy gut flora” or “friendly bacteria”.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 18:20:00 +0000
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