Category: Antibiotic resistance

Following tricky triclosan: Antibacterial product flows through streams, crops

Don’t know how much good antibacterials do on a household level but I’m still waiting for all the harm they were supposed to cause to public health. Continue reading Following tricky triclosan: Antibacterial product flows through streams, crops

Oh the Fear, Oh the Anxiety–Resistant Bugs Caused by Farmers

I have been practicing medicine now for 42 years and I am still using Amoxicillin, a penicillin family (called beta lactam) antibiotic, for respiratory infections in children, with great success. Amoxicillin became available in the 60s as I recall, as a better form of penicillin. I have personally prescribed a river of Amoxicillin, the pink bubble gum stuff, as the mommies say.
So why do journalists declare another “crisis” related to resistant bugs? Because that’s what journalists do and a crisis makes news.
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NO… there is still no convincing evidence that antibiotic use on the farm is a public health problem

The best former FDA commission Donald Kennedy can do — after all these years of hysteria and research — is point to studies that, in the words of their authors, only “could be responsible” for, or “suggest” a link between livestock antibiotics and resistant bacteria. Continue reading NO… there is still no convincing evidence that antibiotic use on the farm is a public health problem

Anti-chemical industry pushes feds to ban triclosan from anti-bacterial products

It used to be anti-bacterial resistance. Now it’s endocrine disruption. Either way, it’s always junk science. Continue reading Anti-chemical industry pushes feds to ban triclosan from anti-bacterial products