THE OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS
Since the early 1990s I’ve considered yeast or candida overgrowth, what’s now being called fungal sinusitis (since Mayo Clinic identified this condition in ’99), as a leading cause of moderate to severe chronic sinusitis. The primary reason for this…the overuse of antibiotics.
Most sinus infections begin with a cold virus. Antibiotics are not only worthless when treating a virus, but they cause harm by killing the body’s beneficial bacteria (often resulting in candida overgrowth) and causing a number of serious side-effects, sometimes life-threatening. According to a 2008 article in Clinical Infectious Diseases, more than 142,000 people are rushed to the emergency room each year from adverse reactions to antibiotics, and an estimated 70,000 of those cases may be a result of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions. Over 100,000 Americans die every year from prescription drugs, many of which are antibiotics. In fact, medical treatment is the third leading cause of death (250,000 per year) in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer.
Children are more likely to suffer side effects such as diarrhea and abdominal pain from antibiotics. In addition, recent studies have repeatedly shown that antibiotics are not indicated for most ear infections and may also increase the likelihood of getting another ear infection.
If you believe, as do most sinus sufferers, that an antibiotic is necessary to stop a sinus infection, please read the following conclusion of a study that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2007.
The study should lead to a “reconsideration of antibiotic use for acute sinusitis (sinus infection). The current view that antibiotics are effective can now be challenged, particularly for the routine cases which physicians treat,” said lead author Dr. Ian Williamson of the University of Southampton in England.
In less than 3 months after starting Dr IVker’s Sinus Survival Program I can honestly say that I felt much better. I would highlly recommend reading his Sinus Survial first. Before begining this program, I had been suffering with chronic sinusitis for more than 20 years and now can breathe much easier and hardly any sinus infections!!!!!