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• Some Doctors Warming Up to Probiotics - WebMD, 11/4/11 - "A review of 22 studies involving 3,096 patients presented at the meeting showed that taking probiotics while on antibiotics may cut the risk of developing antibiotic-associated diarrhea by about 60% ...antibiotics kill "good" bacteria along with the bacteria that cause illness. A decrease in beneficial bacteria may lead to digestive problems. Taking probiotics may help replace the lost beneficial bacteria and help prevent diarrhea ... Probiotics also appeared to provide protection against potentially deadly bouts of diarrhea caused by the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diff. ... Look for a brand you trust and whose label offers that information" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• Antibiotics Take Toll On Beneficial Microbes In Gut - Science Daily, 6/18/09 - "Normally, a set of thousands of different kinds of microbes lives in the gut – a distinctive mix for each person, and thought to be passed on from mother to baby. The microbes, including many different bacteria, aid digestion and nutrition, appear to help maintain a healthy immune system, and keep order when harmful microbes invade ... Mice, which normally develop a diverse set of microbes after being born without one, then were given either cefoperazone, a broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic, or a combination of three antibiotics (amoxicillin, bismuth and metronidazole) ... Both antibiotic treatments caused significant changes in the gut microbial community. However, in the mice given cefoperazone, there was no recovery of normal diversity. In other mice given the amoxicillin-containing combination, the microbiota largely recovered, but not completely ... Probiotics may be part of the solution, but we don’t know that yet" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• Probiotics May Help People Taking Antibiotics - Science Daily, 12/17/08 - "Up to one in five people on antibiotics stop taking their full course of antibiotic therapy due to diarrhea. Physicians could help patients avoid this problem by prescribing probiotics" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• Green Tea Helps Beat Superbugs, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 3/30/08 - "drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics in their fight against resistant superbugs, making them up to three times more effective" - See Jarrow green tea at iHerb.
• Do Alcohol and Antibiotics Mix? - Dr. Weil, 14/9/04
• Bacterial Infections - Life Extension Magazine
• Antibiotic Antidote? - Dr. Weil, 5/20/03

General Information:

• How antibiotics work - CBS News

Other News:

• Antibiotic Overuse May Be Bad for Body's Good Bacteria - WebMD, 8/24/11 - "Antibiotic overuse doesn’t just lead to drug-resistant superbugs, it may also permanently wipe out the body’s good bacteria ... in a developed country like the U.S., the average child gets 10 to 20 courses of antibiotics by age 18 ... doctors often prescribe antibiotics before they know whether an infection is viral or bacterial. If the problem is a virus, antibiotics don't help ... a 2003 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that doctors prescribed antibiotics for more than 60% of adults with upper respiratory tract infections, which are usually caused by viruses ... Antibiotics, he thinks, may also be contributing to obesity in humans, though Blaser says no one yet understands how ... a child’s risk for inflammatory bowel disease increases with the number of courses of antibiotics taken ... antibiotics may be a factor behind the unexplained rises in allergies, asthma, and type 1 diabetes in children ... There’s really only a limited number of studies that have been done on this so far, but I think we’re going to see more because I think it’s going to be a big deal for us to understand this ... effective probiotics are needed to replace lost good bacteria" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• Why long-term antibiotic use increases infection with a mycobacterium - Science Daily, 8/1/11
• Gut bacteria linked to behavior: That anxiety may be in your gut, not in your head - Science Daily, 5/17/11 - "For each person, the gut is home to about 1,000 trillium bacteria with which we live in harmony. These bacteria perform a number of functions vital to health: They harvest energy from the diet, protect against infections and provide nutrition to cells in the gut. Any disruption can result in life-threatening conditions, such as antibiotic-induced colitis from infection with the "superbug" Clostridium difficile ... Working with healthy adult mice, the researchers showed that disrupting the normal bacterial content of the gut with antibiotics produced changes in behaviour; the mice became less cautious or anxious. This change was accompanied by an increase in brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which has been linked, to depression and anxiety ... When oral antibiotics were discontinued, bacteria in the gut returned to normal. "This was accompanied by restoration of normal behaviour and brain chemistry,""
• C. difficile colonization accompanied by changes in gut microbiota: Study hints at probiotics as treatment - Science Daily, 4/19/11 - "Asymptomatic colonization by Clostridium difficile, absent the use of antibiotics, is common in infants and when it happens changes occur in the composition of the gut microbiota ... The adult human gut is an ecosystem containing several pounds of bacteria, including hundreds of species and more than 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) individuals. A healthy microbial ecosystem protects the host against Clostridium difficile, which frequently colonizes the gut after its ecological balance has been disrupted by broad spectrum antibiotics ... Our results suggest that Bifidobacterium species, which are used as probiotics, can participate in that barrier effect against C. difficile" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• C. difficile increases risk of death six-fold in patients with inflammatory bowel disease - Science Daily, 4/19/11 - "C. difficile bacteria are present naturally in the gut in around two thirds of children and 3 per cent of adults, but they do not cause problems in healthy people. Broad spectrum antibiotics can cause problems by killing harmless bacteria that usually reside in the gut, allowing C. difficile to flourish and produce toxins that cause diarrhea and fever. The infection is rarely fatal in people who are not already severely ill or elderly; a review published in 2010 estimated the overall mortality rate for patients with C. difficile to be 6 per cent ... IBD patients who contract C. difficile in hospital are six times more likely to die in hospital than patients who are admitted for IBD alone. In the patients followed in the study, the mortality rate for IBD patients with C. difficile at 30 days was 25 per cent, compared with 3 per cent for patients with IBD alone ... IBD patients with C. difficile also stay in hospital for longer, with a median length of stay of 26 days compared with five days, and are almost twice as likely to need gastrointestinal surgery ... At St. George's Hospital, we have seen a 70 per cent reduction in hospital-acquired infections after implementing a range of control measures, such as careful handwashing and reduced use of broad spectrum antibiotics"
• Antibiotics disrupt gut ecology, metabolism - Science Daily, 4/19/11 - "carry several pounds of microbes in our gastro-intestinal tracts. Recent research suggests that this microbial ecosystem plays a variety of critical roles in our health ... antibiotics profoundly disrupt intestinal homeostasis ... Intestinal microbes help us digest our food, provide us with vitamins that we cannot make on our own, and protect us from microbes that make us sick, amongst other things ... administered antibiotics to the mice, to kill off most of their gut microbiota, and analyzed the feces anew ... The levels of 87 percent of the molecules detected had been shifted up or down by factors ranging from 2-fold to 10,000-fold ... the unnecessary use of antibiotics has deleterious effects on human health that were previously unappreciated ... our gut microbes control these important molecules raises the possibility that manipulating these microbes could be used to modulate diseases that have hormonal or metabolic origins (such as inmmunodeficiency, depression, diabetes and others)" - See probiotic products at iHerb.
• Antibiotics May Make Fighting Flu Harder - Science News, 3/14/11 - "Iwasaki and her colleagues treated mice for a month with four antibiotics commonly given to people with bacterial infections, then infected the rodents with the flu. Antibiotic treatment impaired the mice’s ability to make an important flu-fighting molecule called interleukin-1 beta or IL-1 beta, the researchers found. IL-1 beta is necessary to combat influenza and other viruses ... Gut bacteria are constantly priming the immune system to make IL-1 beta, keeping the immune system vigilant against the flu and other viruses ... Some Lactobacillus bacteria, on the other hand, are known as “friendly” gut bacteria and may play a role in virus defense. Mice treated with an antibiotic called neomycin, which wipes out most types of Lactobacillus bacteria while leaving Sphingomonas bacteria alone, have a hard time fighting the flu" - Note:  It seems to be a common misconception of nearly everyone I know that if you've got a bad case of the flu you need to go to a doctor and get antibiotics when in reality, it probably slows recovery.
• Early antibiotic use can lead to increased risk of childhood asthma, study suggests - Science Daily, 1/27/11 - "When babies are given antibiotics, their risk of developing asthma by age 6 may increase by 50 percent"
• How bacteria keep ahead of vaccines and antibiotics - Science Daily, 1/27/11
• Early Antibiotic Use Linked to Asthma and Allergy at Age 6 Years - Medscape, 1/11/11 - "Children with early antibiotic exposure had an increased risk for asthma, with an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 1.52 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.07 - 2.16). In children in whom asthma was first diagnosed after age 3 years, the adjusted OR was 1.66 (95% CI, 0.99 - 2.79). In children who had no history of lower respiratory tract infection before age 1 year, the adjusted OR was 1.66 ... Children with no family history of asthma had an even stronger association of early antibiotic use with subsequent development of asthma (adjusted OR, 1.89; 95% CI, 1.00 - 3.58; P for interaction = .03). Adjusted OR for a positive blood or skin test result for allergy was 1.59"
• Antibiotics have long-term impacts on gut flora - Science Daily, 11/1/10 - "Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to two years after treatment"
• How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics - Science Daily, 10/4/10
• High potassium? Check your antibiotic - Science Daily, 7/1/10
• Antibiotic resistance lasts up to a year, primary care patient study finds - Science Daily, 5/18/10
• Evidence of increasing antibiotic resistance - Science Daily, 3/3/10
• Low levels of antibiotics cause multidrug resistance in 'superbugs' - Science Daily, 2/11/10
• Why Some Antibiotic Drugs Pack Such A Punch - WebMD, 8/20/09
• Drug Has Potential to Slow Aging - WebMD, 7/10/09 - "At first, the drug was not readily absorbed into the bloodstream of the mice, so a specialized feed was developed with an encapsulated, timed-release form of rapamycin"
• Antibiotic Delayed Aging in Mice - NYTimes.com, 7/8/09 - "The effectiveness of rapamycin in extending the life of elderly mice was discovered by accident. The researchers found that the mice fed rapamycin were not getting the proper dose in their bloodstream. They reformulated the drug in the form of capsules that fed slow doses to the intestine, but by that time the mice were elderly. Nonetheless, life span increased by 14 percent in the females and 9 percent in the males"
• Antibiotics: Single Largest Class Of Drugs Causing Liver Injury - Science Daily, 12/8/08 - "Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) ... DILI is the most common cause of death from acute liver failure and accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases of acute liver failure in the U.S"
• World Faces Global Pandemic Of Antibiotic Resistance, Experts Warn - Science Daily, 9/18/08
• Scientists Strike Blow In Superbugs Struggle - Science Daily, 12/5/07
• Antibiotics Overprescribed By Doctors, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 9/19/07
• Antibiotic Resistance: Doctors' Antibiotic Prescribing Practices Still Contributing to Problem - Science Daily, 7/26/07
• New Hope For Fighting Antibiotic Resistance - Science Daily, 4/26/07
• FDA Weighs Fate of Antibiotic Ketek - WebMD, 12/14/06
• Antibiotic Gets Stronger Liver Warning - WebMD, 6/29/06
• Are Antibiotics Being Used for Too Long? - Doctor's Guide, 6/9/06
• Antibiotic Linked to Liver Problems - Intelihealth, 5/22/06
• Antibiotic Ketek (Telithromycin) and Possible Association With Liver Failure - Doctor's Guide, 2/7/06
• Ketek (Telithromycin) Linked to Two Cases of Liver Failure and Implicated in a Third Case of Hepatitis - Doctor's Guide, 1/20/06
• Antibiotics: Overused for Sore Throats? - WebMD, 11/8/06
• Children Overprescribed Antibiotics for Sore Throat - Doctor's Guide, 11/8/05
• Inappropriate Prescribing Of Antibiotics By Nurses And Doctors Continues - Science Daily, 10/6/05
• Gaining Ground In The Race Against Antibiotic Resistance - Science Daily, 9/22/05
• Use of Antibiotics for Acne May Increase Risk of Common Illness - Doctor's Guide, 9/21/05
• Recent Use Of Antibiotics Doubles Your Chances Of Being Resistant - Science Daily, 7/20/05
• FDA Approves Tygacil (Tigecycline), First-In-Class Antibiotic - Doctor's Guide, 6/16/05
• Pfizer's Single-Dose Antibiotic Zmax (Azithromycin Extended Release) Receives FDA Approval - Doctor's Guide, 6/13/05
• Researchers Make Gains In Understanding Antibiotic Resistance - Science Daily, 4/27/05
• Antibiotics Gain Strength With Natural Compound - Science Daily, 7/21/04
• Antibiotic-Resistant Infection Spreading - WebMD, 4/20/04
• FDA Approves Cefixime Suspension; Product to be Relaunched Under Suprax Brand - Doctor's Guide, 2/25/04
• Antibiotics Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 2/18/04
• FAQ: Antibiotics and Breast Cancer - WebMD, 2/17/04
• Physicians Still Contributing to Antibiotic Resistance by Inappropriate Prescription Practices - Doctor's Guide, 10/20/03
• Antibiotic Resistance in Healthy Adults - WebMD, 10/9/03
• Early Antibiotics Tied to Asthma, Allergy - WebMD, 9/30/03
• Clarithromycin Appears To Defeat Bacterial Infections In Wheezing Children - Doctor's Guide, 9/24/03
• Voriconazole Clears Aspergillosis Infections With Less Overall Expense than Amphotericin - Doctor's Guide, 9/24/03
• Tigecycline Effective for Complicated Infections in Hospitalized Patients - Doctor's Guide, 9/22/03
• "Hidden" Clindamycin Resistance in Erythromycin-Resistant Staphylococci - Doctor's Guide, 9/19/03
• FDA Approves Cubicin (Daptomycin), First In New Class Of Antibiotics - Doctor's Guide, 9/15/03
• Fluoroquinolone Resistance 'Rampant' in Nursing Homes - Doctor's Guide, 9/15/03
• Linezolid Better Tolerated, As Effective As Vancomycin In Treating Resistant Gram-positive Paediatric Infections - Doctor's Guide, 8/27/03
• Azithromycin, but not Tetracycline, Effective Treatment for Mycoplasma Genitalium Infection - Doctor's Guide, 8/19/03
• Linezolid Effective Against Multiple Species of Anaerobes - Doctor's Guide, 8/4/03
• Linezolid May Be Useful Alternative For Treating Resistant Gram-Positive Bacteria - Doctor's Guide, 7/30/03
• Overview of Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcus Aureus - Doctor's Guide, 7/24/03
• Azithromycin Associated with Acute Delirium in two Elderly People - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/03
• Study Indicates Vancomycin Overuse - Doctor's Guide, 6/11/03
• Antibacterial Products Don't Cut Germs - WebMD, 5/21/03
• Similar Cure Rates With Ertapenem Or Piperacillin-Tazobactam For Surgical Infections With Or Without Enterococcus - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/03
• Olympics Offer Model for Cutting Antibiotic Use - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/03
• Overuse of Potent Antibiotics Now a Growing Problem - WebMD, 3/31/03
• Common Drug-Resistant Bacteria Spreading - WebMD, 3/10/03
• Sharp Jump Seen For Drug-Resistant Germs - Intelihealth, 3/10/03
• FDA Gives Approvable Letter For Ketek (Telithromycin) Tablets For Treatment Of Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infections - Doctor's Guide, 1/27/03
• Inappropriate Antibiotic Use Still Common In Children In United States - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/02
• Nosocomial Pneumonia Indication Approved For Levaquin (Levofloxacin) - Doctor's Guide, 11/5/02
• Antibacterial Soap a Wash - WebMD, 10/24/02
• Antibiotics May Help Your Arteries - WebMD, 10/14/02
• Antibiotic resistance on the rise - USA Today, 9/29/02
• Glaxosmithkline Receives FDA Approval For Augmentin XR (Amoxicillin/Clavulanate Potassium) Extended Release Tablets - Doctor's Guide, 9/26/02
• Antibiotics Aid Heart Patients - WebMD, 8/19/02 - "A year later, those who received an antibiotic were 36% less likely to be rehospitalized for a heart attack or chest pain than those who took a placebo ... The question, Mendall says, is whether the antibiotics are working by fighting infection or inflammation in these patients"
• Topical Antibiotics Reduce Postoperative Infections In Staphylococcus aureus Carriers - Doctor's Guide, 6/13/02
• CyDex, Inc. Announces First U.S. Approval of a Captisol-Enabled Medication - Doctor's Guide, 6/10/02
• First Novel Antifungal Agent In 40 Years, Cancidas*, Is Merck's Latest Discovery - Doctor's Guide, 6/5/02
• FDA Approves Pfizer Antifungal Medicine Vfend (Voriconazole) - Doctor's Guide, 5/28/02
• Telithromycin Effective Against Community-Acquired Pneumonia - Doctor's Guide, 5/16/02
• Safety-Net Antibiotics for Ear Infections - WebMD, 5/8/02
• Recent Antibiotic Use A Risk Factor For Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Resistance - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/02
• Ketek Shown To Be More Active Than Commonly Used Antibiotics In Children With Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infections - Doctor's Guide, 4/30/02
• Once Daily Ketek As Safe And Effective As Levofloxacin Three Times Daily In Treating Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia (Cap) - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/02
• Ketek Shown To Be More Active Than Commonly Used Antibiotics In Children With Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infections - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/02
• Headaches-Germ Link Suggested - Intelihealth, 4/29/02 - "about 18 percent of chronic migraine sufferers were infected with the stomach bug helicobacter pylori and antibiotics appeared to clear the headaches ... Adding the friendly bacteria Lactobacillus seemed to work even better ... Helicobacter pylori, the bug that causes gut ulcers, has recently been linked to a growing list of diseases, including heart disease, autoimmune diseases and skin conditions"
• Ketek (Telithromycin) Shows Activity in Acute Maxillary Sinusitis Caused By Drug Resistant Bacteria - Doctor's Guide, 3/5/02
• Azithromycin Proves Safe and Better Tolerated than Other Antibacterials in Children - Doctor's Guide, 1/25/02
• Zithromax Receives FDA Approval as Single-Dose Treatment for Pediatric Ear Infections - Doctor's Guide, 12/18/01
• Vancomycin/Synercid Combination More Active Than Vancomycin Alone in Treating Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/01
• Ketek (Telithromycin) Active In Treating Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused By Streptococcus Pneumoniae - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/01
• Bacteria More Resistant to Newer Therapy Than to Older Penicillin - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/01
• New Antibiotic, Quinupristin-Dalfopristin, For Severe Gram-Positive Infections - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/01
• First-Line Antibiotics Recommended for Uncomplicated Sinusitis - Doctor's Guide, 10/17/01
• Macrolide Resistance Doubles In Five Years - Doctor's Guide, 10/17/01
• Erythromycin Linked to Newborns' Intestinal Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 10/1/01
• FDA Approves New Cephalosporin Antibiotic, Spectracef (Cefditoren Pivoxil) - Doctor's Guide, 9/12/01
• Fewer Antibiotics For Kids Suggested - Intelihealth, 9/5/01
• Antibiotics May Help Heart Trouble - Intelihealth, 9/4/01
• New Blockbuster Antibiotics Beat Up on Bugs - WebMD, 7/25/01
• New Class Of Antibiotics Looks Good - Intelihealth, 7/25/01
• High-Dose, Short-Term Antibiotics May Help Curb Drug Resistance - Intelihealth, 7/3/01
• Antibiotics May Prevent Lyme Disease - WebMD, 6/12/01
• Treating Acne With Antibiotics Leads To Antibiotic Resistance - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/01
• Health Focus: Are Antibiotics Really Necessary For Ear Infections? - Intelihealth, 5/9/01 - "patients may be served just as well by giving them eardrops for pain and letting the infection heal itself"
• FDA Committee OKs Antibiotic - Intelihealth, 4/27/01 - "group was worried about ``silent toxicity'' if the drug interacted with other products, potentially causing an increase in liver enzymes and also possibly a prolongation of the heartbeat"
• FDA Panel Limits Recommendation of New Antibiotic, Advisers Stop Short of Saying Ketek Works Against Drug Resistance - WebMD, 4/26/01
• Missing Intestinal Bacterium Linked To Kidney Stones In CF Patients - Doctor's Guide, 9/25/98 - "The study is one of the first to directly link an absence of the organism, known as Oxalobacter formigenes, to the formation of the painful crystals ... O. formigenes appears to break down calcium oxalate before it can form crystals that evolve into kidney stones ... Peck and colleagues suspect prolonged antibiotic use and other high-dose drug regimens may preclude natural colonisation with the organism, or may irreversibly destroy the colonies"

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