This Will Make You Google Antibiotics Before Taking Them

Levaquin and other s are dangerous antibiotics being used for sore throats and UTIs

The following video shows the potential horrors of Levaquin, Cipro, Acelox, and other fluoroquinolones. These dangerous antibiotics should only be used in rare cases when serious bacterial infection doesn’t react to anything else. Instead they’re being used for sinus problems and swollen throats.

The use of fluoroquinolones, or quinolones, has accelerated over the past 20 years. The antibiotic works on infections in different organ systems all over the body, so doctors started to overprescribe it. Originally it was the “go-to” cure – the simple choice. Now, more and more doctors are realizing what FQs like Levaquin, Cirpo, and Acelox are fully capable of doing to the human body.

You Really Should Research

The more you know about the antibiotics you’re bringing into your house, the safer your household will be. Fluoroquinolones are known to be an unsafe antibiotic: a 2008 Food and Drug Administration report linked FQs to debilitating diseases, you saw what happened to Chris Butler in the video, and just try Googling “dangerous antibiotic”.

What Are The Next Steps?

Collect some resources. Talk to multiple sources. You don’t need to become a hypochondriac – you need to become informed. A lot happens with these global corporations that is far above the head of the average consumer. Staying interested and informed is a far better way to fight infection than antibiotics; prevention is key. It’s most cost effective and you’ll live a happier, healthier life.

Chris Butler trusted his doctors, and I’m sure you trust yours – as you should. But sometimes even trained professionals don’t realize the full ramifications of what they prescribe. In Butler’s case, his doctor prescribed Levaquin three to four times a year well after the antibiotic was deemed dangerous.

The FDA issued a Black Box Warning to doctors about Levaquin after they found it causes tendonitis and tendon tears. When antibiotics don’t solve health problems but expand them, the antibiotics should be removed from use. Petitions have been filed. Lawsuits are underway (link). About 23.1 million patients in the U.S. received a prescription for oral fluoroquinolones in 2011; several thousand are pursuing Levaquin lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson for torn tendons, nerve damage, and detached retinas.

Alternatives to Antibiotics

Here’s a great resource: a short-list of great natural antibiotics. Antibiotics are important: they help fight off infection, they revolutionized medicine in the 20th Century, and, most importantly, if used improperly can lead to serious harm. Chemical compounds and toxic antibiotics dry us out, kill good and bad bacteria alike, and have effects on our bodies yet unrealized. Sounds like this medicine - this thing that’s supposed to makes us feel better - is actually making us feel worse.

Sources:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2012/09/30/antibiotic-alert-the-drug-the-doctor-ordered-could-cause-deadly-side-effects/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/20/fluoroquinolones-side-effects.aspx

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/7-dangerous-myths-about-antibiotics/

http://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observations/index.php/are-fluoroquinolones-really-more-dangerous-than-other-antibiotics/2012/09/11/

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