Comments on: Communication is Key to Appropriate Antibiotic Use http://brainblogger.com/2009/06/24/communication-is-key-to-appropriate-antibiotic-use/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives Mon, 21 May 2012 22:26:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Antibiotic Use and Overusehttp://brainblogger.com/2009/06/24/communication-is-key-to-appropriate-antibiotic-use/#comment-551233 Antibiotic Use and Overuse Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:43:02 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=2848#comment-551233 [...] the complete post here. Comments [0]Digg [...] [...] the complete post here. Comments [0]Digg [...]

]]> By: Anahttp://brainblogger.com/2009/06/24/communication-is-key-to-appropriate-antibiotic-use/#comment-550821 Ana Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:40:38 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=2848#comment-550821 This is all good and necessary advise, but the most pressing issue is the tons of antibiotics used by the food industry, that are administered in low doses in animal feed for use as growth promoters.Physicians should be aware of this and start raising awareness among other health care professionals and their patients, and join public health scientists trying to raise awareness of this very important and scary phenomenon.Even if all human prescriptions are appropriate, feeding subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics to animals will inevitably render these valuable drugs inefficient and we'll start seeing healthy people succumbing to otherwise treatable infections This is all good and necessary advise, but the most pressing issue is the tons of antibiotics used by the food industry, that are administered in low doses in animal feed for use as growth promoters.

Physicians should be aware of this and start raising awareness among other health care professionals and their patients, and join public health scientists trying to raise awareness of this very important and scary phenomenon.

Even if all human prescriptions are appropriate, feeding subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics to animals will inevitably render these valuable drugs inefficient and we’ll start seeing healthy people succumbing to otherwise treatable infections

]]> By: http://www.kojj.comhttp://brainblogger.com/2009/06/24/communication-is-key-to-appropriate-antibiotic-use/#comment-550736 http://www.kojj.com Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:25:23 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=2848#comment-550736 <strong>Communication is Key to Appropriate Antibiotic Use...</strong>The misuse of antibiotics around the world is increasing due, in part, to diagnostic uncertainty and patient expectations. One of the most common causes of antibiotic use in the United States, as well as other industrialized nations, is lower respirato... Communication is Key to Appropriate Antibiotic Use…

The misuse of antibiotics around the world is increasing due, in part, to diagnostic uncertainty and patient expectations. One of the most common causes of antibiotic use in the United States, as well as other industrialized nations, is lower respirato…

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