In article <32A50031.3BAB at nol.net>, bionet.immunology wrote:
> Who cares? Anyone?
>> Antibiotics kill the bad germs. (The ones that don't become antibiotic
> resitant). Antibiotics also kill the good germs that help prevent the
> spread of bad germs. (loss of the good germs makes open season for
> antibiotic resistant bad germs) "Antibiotics" that do not kill yeast
> (open the season) and promote their growth. The yeast C. albicans can
> catalyze nitrosamine (a carcinogen) that causes cancer.
>> Wide spread usage of antibiotics gained momentum in the 1950's. The
> incidence of cancer has been rising yearly since then.
>> Who cares anyway?
>> More cancer, more money for doctors, more money for research, more new
> antibiotics.
>> The FDA approved them, doctors fear loss of customers($money) if they
> don't prescribe them and the patients (victoms)feel cheeted if they
> don't get them. Patients THINK antibiotics cure everything and then
> come to rely on the wolves (capitalism) to guard their health while the
> system herds them like sensless sheep into human petrie dishes to test
> their latest and greatest kill everyting antibiotic.
> etc, etc (blah, blah blah....)
You fail to understand a number of principles in medicine. Medical
therapy in general is a balance of risk and benefit. ALL treatments carry
some finite risk of adverse effect. A therapy is endorsed when its
benefits out weigh the risks. The risk of antibiotics causing cancer is
miniscule compared to the huge benefits of appropriate antibiotic use. I
do not disagree that in some cases antibiotics are used inappropraitely.
This does not represent a conspiracy on the part of physicians and
pharmaceutical companies. (sorry, I cannot support your unfounded
delusions). You conclusions are based on paranoia, not facts. It is easy
to see this based on the loose association of your rhetoric.
--
Louis Alarcon, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Surgery
http://www3.pitt.edu/~lalarcon/