Avoid Taking Antibiotics As Can
You should avoid taking antibiotics if you can. They compromise your gut bacteria and eventually can become ineffective in fighting infections with repeated use.
Antibiotics can’t cure just any and everything. They only work on bacterial infections. Viruses can’t be treated with antibiotics. Don’t ask your doctor for them unless they are the last result in getting well, such as if you get bronchitis, as you should avoid taking antibiotics if able. If you have a procedure (like in your mouth), you will need antibiotics to prevent an infection.
Antibiotics play havoc with your healthy gut bacteria. When taking antibiotics, you need to take probiotics to help you stay healthy – during and after taking the antibiotics. Just don’t take probiotics at the same time as your antibiotic – wait hours between (they just cancel each other out). Kefir is outstanding – it’s a fermented milk product and gives you a good dose of good bacteria for your gut. If you are vegan or cannot drink milk, there are other ways to get gut bacteria built back up – fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kombucha (fermented tea), probiotic supplements – you want a more concentrated form of probiotic supplementation. Without taking probiotics during antibiotic doses, you risk your gut going out of whack, which then sets off other systems in your body to go out of whack.
The danger of antibiotics is that they attack the good and bad bacteria in the gut – it is possible that some gut bacteria may be altered permanently – even with one event of antibiotics. Repeated use can stress the bacteria so badly that your entire health is compromised – your gut is the key to your health.
Repeated use of antibiotics can eventually make bacteria resistant to antibiotics – and then they cannot fight bacterial infections anymore.
For up to a year after a surgery, you may need to take an antibiotic prior to a dentist appointment – make sure to let your dentist know and call your doctor for a one-time dose several hours prior to the appointment. The dentist will likely have some on hand in case, but it shortens the time needed for best protection. There might be other procedures this can happen with, as well.
Use antibiotics as little as you can – try to find other ways to treat your illnesses – and never try to ask for antibiotics until your doctor says it’s the best or last resort. Doctors used to prescribe antibiotics for any and everything, even without requiring an office visit. No doubt this set up some illnesses in the general public. It’s been proven to be a bad practice to prescribe antibiotics without a good reason.
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