UTI Resistance to antibiotics
Watch this postHi, I have suffered for many years with UTI's despite doing everything recommended to avoid getting them. Last week my GP phoned with the result of my latest lab test and told me I had developed an antibiotic resistant strain of e Coli. I was prescribed nitrofurantoin which helped but I felt it wasn't gone completely so was prescribed ciprofloxacin which has had some very negative reports re side effects. Currently I'm drinking cranberry juice, lots of water and taking a powder called D Mannone which apparently is harmless but is very successful at clearing UTI's, so far so good. I will of course put a repeat sample into the lab to ensure all is well. Just wondering if anybody else has experienced antibiotic resistant UTI's? The development of antibiotic infections is rather worrying.
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It is not always wise to rely purely on what are sometimes consider natural products as there are a number of very serious bacterial infections that will only respond to conventional treatment and, in these rare circumstances, to try otherwise can result in death, an outcome I have witnessed on a number of occasions. Minor infections could be treated with more natural products but never assume 'natural' means safe. Even garlic has been known to cause problems. Antibiotics still have an important role to play as long as they are used wisely.
Having worked in the field of Infectious Diseases, Tropical medicine and HIV I am well aware that a healthy lifestyle or, as the followers of Orthomolecular medicine believe, maintain health through nutritional supplementation, will not necessarily protect you from certain conditions and in such situations drugs are the answer. I appreciate a number of these diseases are preventable if people follow advice, Malaria is a classic example, but there are endless examples when advise has been considered irrelevant and thus not followed. There are also a number of chronic conditions that will also make you more prone to certain infections and these may not be related to lifestyle but genetics.
Yes, pharmaceutical companies remain interested in profit and I still recall the day my months drug budget was spent on one patient in one day to save her life. I was left with the problem of where I could make up this deficit, but a specific drug was the only answer to saving her and any alternative therapy would not have helped. I'm all for exploring complimentary medicines but do believe these should be complimentary and not as an alternative to conventional medicines when the need arises. I may be biased as I have witnessed unnecessary deaths in young people who have been advised to follow an alternative rather than endure the side effects conventional medicines.
Many of my nursing staff also trained in such things a therapeutical aromatherapy massage which proved very beneficial to our HIV patients ( and me as they always had to have a 'dummy' when learning)!!
My own GP practice advised me to try Glucosamine for my arthritic joints and it has been very beneficial. They will also refer you, by letter, to a Chiropractic which is accepted by private health insurance companies.
The NHS may not be adverse to trying alternatives but rarely have the time to explore these, there will of course always be sceptics and those patients very ready to take legal advise if such treatments are not as they hoped. You would also be surprised at how aggressive some patients become if not offered 'drugs' which they believe is their right because they have paid for them and that includes paracetamol!!!