Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Guts of Humanity - Polidicks

Isn't this why you don't take them unless prescribed? The solution is for parents to stop shoving antibiotics down their kids whenever they sneeze.

I'm kind of relieved that my parents always made me tough it out when I was sick.

Oh boy we are going to become quarians

[QUOTE=Wii60;32159011]Oh boy we are going to become quarians[/QUOTE] [B]Awesome.[/B] I've always wanted to live in a bubble, and since everyone would have to know how to operate their suits, [I]everyone alive[/I] would be fully qualified for a mission into space. Two words: [B]Fuck. Yeah.[/B]

and people say science only do good

I never take medication and I even go out of my way to get sick, just for a workout. It's become harder and harder to do because mines gotten to be so badass.

Two days ago I had a lecture at uni on nanotoxicology and the guy who took us for the lecture is apparently really high up in his field and goes all over the world doing work and he was saying how a decade or two down the line we're basically going to be completely fucked because the over-use of antibiotics and other such things are slowly breeding super-strains of bacteria and viruses. You know those band-aids they make now with a 'protective silver layer' in them? Sounds like bullshit but the theory is pretty simple: that's actually a layer on the band-aid filled with silver nanoparticles which are, unlike regular, bulk-silver incredibly reactive: they act almost like free-radicals in a way. Since they've started selling these band-aids though they've begun to find some bacteria that are developing an immunity to these silver nanoparticles, so sooner or later they're gonna be as 'useless' as a regular band-aid anyway. Basically what I'm trying to say is: we're fucked.

Thankfully I ate dirt and rabbit shit as a kid (I really didn't know they weren't candy, what the fuck is round poop anyways? :l) because my immune system must be awesome. Fuck medicine, I'm invincible!

So make a drink/yogurt that contains the bacteria that gets killed off. [editline]7th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;32160982] rabbit shit as a kid [/QUOTE] rrerrr

This is why I don't take antibiotics unless it's potentially life threatening or unless I'm going to lose a limb. I take care of my health and trust my body to fight infections for me. Working out fine so far

[QUOTE=Trix_Disorder;32158246]You're just FULL of insightful posts tonight, aren'tcha.[/QUOTE] Bored, nothing else interesting to post.

Welp, my mother's a doctor, and she only ever gave me antiobiotics when my shit was really fucked up, because overusing them can cause exactly that.

I'm on antibiotics right now, good old Oxytetracycline.

i just finished a course of antibiotics...

I have personal experience with this. Last fall I got a ton of infections... first was an awful ear infection... and then I got strep, followed up with another minor ear infection. I had to take antibiotics for all of them... probably a good month or two's worth. I don't really remember. Stomach started to take a turn for the worst after that point... started throwing up a lot of my meals. Tons of pain in my gut, keeping me up at night sometimes. Had to see a gastroenterologist. The antibiotics had taken their toll on my gut. That, plus the stress from missing TONS of school (work was piling up, ended up having to take the year off) was really screwing with my stomach. I couldn't keep down any food... vomited enough during that time period to last a fucking [B]lifetime.[/B] We switched between two or three stomach medications before we found one that worked... but it was a depressant, which meant it also affected my brain! That shit made me exhuasted. (and not sleepy/tired exhausted) Had to be on that for awhile... finally stopped taking it about two months ago. I lost about 40lbs over the course of about a month and a half. When I got on the stomach medication, I could finally eat again! I wouldn't reach my original weight again until I was off the medication. Don't take fucking antibiotics unless you really need them. They will fuck you up if you take them for long periods of time.

[QUOTE=rilez;32161452]I have personal experience with this. Last fall I got a ton of infections... first was an awful ear infection... and then I got strep, followed up with another minor ear infection. I had to take antibiotics for all of them... probably a good month or two's worth. I don't really remember. Stomach started to take a turn for the worst after that point... started throwing up a lot of my meals. Tons of pain in my gut, keeping me up at night sometimes. Had to see a gastroenterologist. The antibiotics had taken their toll on my gut. That, plus the stress from missing TONS of school (work was piling up, ended up having to take the year off) was really screwing with my stomach. I couldn't keep down any food... vomited enough during that time period to last a fucking [B]lifetime.[/B] We switched between two or three stomach medications before we found one that worked... but it was a depressant, which meant it also affected my brain! That shit made me exhuasted. (and not sleepy/tired exhausted) Had to be on that for awhile... finally stopped taking it about two months ago. I lost about 40lbs over the course of about a month and a half. When I got on the stomach medication, I could finally eat again! I wouldn't reach my original weight again until I was off the medication. Don't take fucking antibiotics unless you really need them. They will fuck you up if you take them for long periods of time.[/QUOTE] In your case taking antibiotics may have been the BETTER option actually. When I was like 4 years old I got an ear infection. Wasn't anything major, though. However, unfortunately the ear infection had weakened my immune system which lead to me developing a throat infection. A few days later the throat infection had spread and become a chest infection, and within a couple of days after that I wound up in hospital with potentially life-threatening pneumonia. They had to put me on a drip and everything. It's odd because that week or two that I spent really sick makes up like... half of my major memories from when I was that young, yet... over the course of that time I only spent like 2 or 3 days in total being properly lucid. Most of the time I was asleep due to being so tired and weak. Trust me, if you get multiple infections at once antibiotics ARE the way to go. I almost died when I was a kid (and I WAS on antibiotics at the time anyway; had I not been on them I could have potentially died).

[QUOTE=sltungle;32161497]In your case taking antibiotics may have been the BETTER option actually. When I was like 4 years old I got an ear infection. Wasn't anything major, though. However, unfortunately the ear infection had weakened my immune system which lead to me developing a throat infection. A few days later the throat infection had spread and become a chest infection, and within a couple of days after that I wound up in hospital with potentially life-threatening pneumonia. They had to put me on a drip and everything. It's odd because that week or two that I spent really sick makes up like... half of my major memories from when I was that young, yet... over the course of that time I only spent like 2 or 3 days in total being properly lucid. Most of the time I was asleep due to being so tired and weak. Trust me, if you get multiple infections at once antibiotics ARE the way to go. I almost died when I was a kid (and I WAS on antibiotics at the time anyway; had I not been on them I could have potentially died).[/QUOTE] I'd still take the antibiotics, knowing how sick it made me. Not something I'd risk my life over. There's still a lot of people out there that take antibiotics for stupid reasons, though. It's not worth it, and you're not going to enjoy dealing with all the shit that comes with taking them for extended periods. I know I didn't.

Are you kidding me that people diddn't realize this would happen? I read nonfiction books warning about this when I was in fucking 3rd grade, and my family always knew this sort of thing happens which is why we don't take antibiotics unless they're completely necessary. The problem is the parents who gives their kids antibiotics when they have a fucking common cold or some shit that your body can fight on it's own. Now we'll have a weaker immune system to help us fight those superbugs! :downs:

This is pretty much common sense. So many people use antibiotics for everything when they really don't need it. The human body is quite capable of fighting off disease and moderation is key in these situations.

O.o Haven't people heard of taking probotics/yogurt when on antibiotics and for about a month after the course is done?

I currently have a doctor who will prescribe me any medication I ask for. He will also prescribe anti-biotics as the first step for treating anything. When I was a kid I had asthma and he tried to prescribe a medication that would make me dependent for the rest of my life, my dad said hell no and I outgrew asthma about 2 years later. Sadly, I have taken quite a few cycles of anti-biotics but that's primarily to do with an infection.

I only took one course of antibiotics once, but that was for a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst]Pilonidal cyst[/url] which was partially life threatening if it infected the blood stream, but I was fine in the end.

Had some antibiotics for a serious ear infection. Other than that the last time i took them was 6 years ago, was sick often but seriously. If you have a flu wait it out. If you cant tell the difference between a simple flu and something serious, you're doing it wrong.

Influenza is a virus anyway, antibiotics don't work on viruses.

And the only reason you would need them is for being an idiot for going to the doctor in the first place(You're going out into a world with a shitton of viruses with an immune system that will do FA, stay the fuck at home with bacteria and viruses you are used to surrounding you). As people have said, antibiotics have their time and place, sadly, people rarely know when that is.

Sucks for me, I've had to many fucking infections to even count. . . and I recently got off an insanely strong antibiotic course for a parasite. Hell I've known this I just want to know how bad it can get. Recently I've been taking probiotics hoping that can slightly reverse the effects.

shit taking antibiotics is like a trend here.

[QUOTE=Billiam;32157201]I thought this was fairly common knowledge.[/QUOTE] I'm still waiting for them to make a study about studies about things that we already knew. Also, no antibiotics on these guts. I will shit my pants until I am old.

We're changing.

I'm gonna go with my gut feeling and say, we're screwed.