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"Experts say the growth of antibiotic resistance now poses as great a threat to global health as the emergence of new diseases such as Aids and pandemic flu...Drug companies have lost interest in developing new antibiotics because it is increasingly difficult to find new agents and it is not commercially viable – antibiotics are taken for a few days, compared with, say, a heart drug which may be taken for life...The rapid rise in E.coli blood poisoning is thought to be linked with the ageing of the population. E.coli is a common cause of urinary-tract infections but may also cause wound infections following surgery or injury. These are regarded as minor conditions, but if they became untreatable they would be life-threatening."
It's a UK article but the global implications are discussed. This is not the first I've heard of bacteria resistant to antibiotics but it's the first time I've read of it possibly being linked to an aging population.
Well, aging people are likely to have more fragile immune systems. If an older person is in hospital or some other institutional setting, they are more exposed. When someone has what appears to be a first dementia episode, or an acute exacerbation of dementia-type behavior, they are always checked for UTI first (certainly the women- a curse of anatomy).
If animals weren't pumped full of antibiotics to fatten them and to cut down the disease of the terrible conditions in which they are kept until slaughter, it would help a lot. Humble opinion, and all that.
Well, if I were to believe everything I read here on the Retirement Board we're all going to contract some dread disease, lose our health care 'cause Medicare is gonna evaporate, go broke 'cause Social Security is gonna dry up soon, get tossed out of our homes by (take your choice) government, bankers, family members and die old, alone and lonely somewhere yet to be determined but not where we want to be while forsaken by ungrateful, uncaring children who will breathe sighs of relief and squabble over my estate.
Call me a cockeyed optimist but I think I'll just sit back with a smile on my face, a song in my heart, wearing rings on my fingers and bells on my toes and a bone in my nose ho, ho!
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Nope! Not ready to succumb to fear and voluntarily assume room temperature. I have every confidence I'll live until I die, however and whenever, and enjoy every step of the journey.
"Experts say the growth of antibiotic resistance now poses as great a threat to global health as the emergence of new diseases such as Aids and pandemic flu...Drug companies have lost interest in developing new antibiotics because it is increasingly difficult to find new agents and it is not commercially viable – antibiotics are taken for a few days, compared with, say, a heart drug which may be taken for life...The rapid rise in E.coli blood poisoning is thought to be linked with the ageing of the population. E.coli is a common cause of urinary-tract infections but may also cause wound infections following surgery or injury. These are regarded as minor conditions, but if they became untreatable they would be life-threatening."
It's a UK article but the global implications are discussed. This is not the first I've heard of bacteria resistant to antibiotics but it's the first time I've read of it possibly being linked to an aging population.
A friend who is a doctor here (oops, "hospitalist") has written articles on the deadly MRSA in hospitals. MRSA has been around for a long time. This can be carried by skin contact, even in on shoes, etc. She says it's b/c of this same issue. According to her, even visitors can contract it. Nursing homes would be a target b/c of the frailer population.
Well, if I were to believe everything I read here on the Retirement Board we're all going to contract some dread disease, lose our health care 'cause Medicare is gonna evaporate, go broke 'cause Social Security is gonna dry up soon, get tossed out of our homes by (take your choice) government, bankers, family members and die old, alone and lonely somewhere yet to be determined but not where we want to be while forsaken by ungrateful, uncaring children who will breathe sighs of relief and squabble over my estate.
Call me a cockeyed optimist but I think I'll just sit back with a smile on my face, a song in my heart, wearing rings on my fingers and bells on my toes and a bone in my nose ho, ho!
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Nope! Not ready to succumb to fear and voluntarily assume room temperature. I have every confidence I'll live until I die, however and whenever, and enjoy every step of the journey.
For years, we've been eating foods, doing things and living lifestyles that evolving technological insights keep saying will kill us. Who knows what 'they' will discover in years to come ... that we are unknowingly doing today, that will lead to our ultimate demise.
Nobody lives forever, but, far worse than dying, is safely reaching an advanced age ... only to discover we've never really lived --- because we spent our time avoiding things that would kill us or cause us to age more rapidly.
Well, aging people are likely to have more fragile immune systems. If an older person is in hospital or some other institutional setting, they are more exposed. When someone has what appears to be a first dementia episode, or an acute exacerbation of dementia-type behavior, they are always checked for UTI first (certainly the women- a curse of anatomy).
If animals weren't pumped full of antibiotics to fatten them and to cut down the disease of the terrible conditions in which they are kept until slaughter, it would help a lot. Humble opinion, and all that.
The low level antibiotics that have been in dairy/meat have contributed to resistant strains of bacteria, too. The bacteria get to mutate and become stronger. I remember when antibiotics were given for everything and I knew it was dead wrong years ago. Now it's common knowledge, but the medical mainstream takes years to get these things.
Guess we should consider ourselves lucky that we live where we can and do purchase locally raised, grass-fed, Angus beef as well as free-range chicken, neither of which have fillers, preservatives or antibiotics. Not only that but they actually have real flavor. Imagine that!
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