Hospital infections caused by doctors?

Why are 'superbugs' confined to hospitals?

Overuse of various antibiotics and prescribing them- not all the correct reasons in some cases, leads to susceptible bacteria being surpressed (unkillable).

The bacteria that are resistent to antibiotics survive because of the menacing speed in which the nature of bacteria divide and spread. In general, such bacteria becomes resistant and populate and breed at a very frightening pace. Moreover, these bacteria can transfer further and this is not being monitored properly. VERY strangely, superbugs appear confined to hospitals, dont they?

Health professionals depend on antibiotics to treat infection caused by bacteria, from tonsilitis to meningistis and many life-threatening bacterial infections. The efficacy of many antibiotics has begun to wane dramatically in the UK, this being the legacy of many years of erronous prescribing (especially when given without an absolute and positive diagnosis of a bacterial illness) and overuse in both human medicine and agricultural worlds.

It is plainly wrong and far too easy to blame vulnerable nurses and cleaners for specific strains of virri killing people!

See the fillm made by BBC2 here

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8887931967515748990&hl=en


It MUST be time to investigate the role of the antibiotic, and how it is precribed, precisely when and why it's given, and whether the course has been completed- THAT does require rigid focused attendence to detail to help avoid obvious mutation and resistance to unique killer-bugs-uniquely (?) placed now, in hospitals.

If these bugs are so virulent, they would be possibly airborne and easily spead from hand-to-hand as colds are- to the oustide, not confined to hospitals, they would spread to the streets, other countries - may well be the next disaster we will face if antibiotic use is not curbed now.

These drugs work only against infections caused by bacteria, not virri. Or is there a strange virus we dont know about here?

However, many GP's mollify their patients' demands that they 'give me something' by prescribing antibiotics for viral infections such as colds, flu and other common complaints, easily dealt with by a pharmacist.

They may also prescribe the drugs for other infections, such as sore throat, that are sometimes caused by bacteria, but without having swabbed for bacteria- surely a necessity nowadays- how do they KNOW they are not mis-prescribing and risking 'super-bug' mutations?

If it's a virus, the GP/docor is well aware he's causing a possible mutated dangerous killer-virus outbreak by prescribing antibiotics.


Taking antibiotics for anything other than particular PROVEN bacterial illness, not only can't work, but can have a killer side effect: in due course, this practice helps create bacteria that cannot be killed and can only become an out-of-control disaster.

Scientists have indeed found bacteria that are resistant to some of the most powerful antibiotics in the world, this has to be due prescribing them, VERY wrongly, by doctors.

Elizabeth Robillard

http://www.elizabethrobillard.co.uk