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ANTIBIOTICS FOR EVERYONE!?
By Rebecca Karchere

In my practice, I find it somewhat amusing the way my patients react to illness. Please do not take this personally but I feel that I must confess it and explain why I find some humor in it. Well over 50% of my patients will confess that when they get an infection, they go directly to their medical doctor. Most of the time, if not all, they receive an antibiotic. You are probably thinking, well that sounds pretty normal. Well, normal is a relative term and just because something is ‘normal’ doesn’t mean that it is the best way.

Antibiotics only kill bacteria, so if you have another pathogen like fungus, yeast or a virus in your body, you are not getting the proper care if handed an antibiotic. On top of that, medicine does not address the reason or cause for the infection. Why is it that people run to the doctor for many different reasons and all come out leaving with an antibiotic prescription? When did antibiotics become the cure for everything? Are all our problems caused by bacteria? No. Are we all antibiotic deficient when we get sick? No.

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