Antibiotics can contribute to colitis--new test allows faster treatment
Antibiotics often cause diarrhea and colitis, especially in hospitals and nursing homes where the culprit bacterium (C. difficile) is common--and so is antibiotic therapy. The FDA has approved Meridian Bioscience's new ImmunoCard Toxins A&B, a rapid test for the diagnosis of a major cause of antibiotic-associated colitis"
Seems that as we learn to cure one thing, we contribute to the occurrence of other things. By the time we wipe out disease, some of us will be dying from the cures. This is one of the reasons bioscience is such a bursting source of new energy and economic growth.
It ain't never gonna go out of style.
posted by Barbara Payne at 11:27 AM
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As a mircobiologist one of the things I have learned is the disasterous effects of the over use of antibiotics. Not only are we discovering all sorts of effects they also confer resistant bacteria. Staphyloccous aureus is a pathogenic skin bacteria that is now resistant to every known antibiotic save one and it is already showing some resistant to that. I am apalled at doctors who seem to think the answer to every ailment is an antibiotic. "You have a viral infection, let me give you an antibiotic," is a line I've heard too many times. I refuse this and end up in fights with doctors. For lay individuals out there antibiotics are only effective against BACTERIAL infections. This new development does not surprise me at all.
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