Cystitis Antibiotics Damaging Women’s Health, but New Solution Offers Hope
The standard current treatment for bladder infections and UTIs is antibiotics. However, antibiotics are damaging women’s health, and this is something that concerns health professionals, says John Bremner, partner in Sweet Cures, the UK based company that provides the alternative cystitis treatment, Waterfall D-Mannose.
(PRWEB) October 19, 2004 -- Antibiotics save millions of lives every year,
but there is a dark side to the use of antibiotics that is not so well known,
says John Bremner, one of the partners in Sweet Cures of York in the UK. For
example, did you know that there is a commonly used antibiotic that has the
potential to kill, like ecstasy, on the very first dose you take?
“The
trouble with antibiotics,” Mr Bremner says, “is that they are seen as a panacea,
and most people start begging for antibiotics as soon as they get ill. Doctors
tell us that they are already under huge pressures at work, and just don’t have
the time to argue. It’s easier to give in, and as likely as not the antibiotic
will do the job, and not kill the patient.”
Although more doctors are now
ordering Waterfall D-Mannose for their patients, many still rely on the
allopathic treatments that they learned at medical school. “They know of the
risks, and they hope that their patients will not be the ones suffering the side
effects,” Mr Bremner comments.
Side-effects
Most antibiotics, like all
drugs, have some adverse effects, and the side-effects of some commonly used
antibiotics can be very dangerous.
Plus, the bacteria that typically affect
us are growing more and more resistant to antibiotics, with the result that
there are now E.coli bugs, like the potentially deadly strain, 0157:H7 that are
resistant to almost everything medically available, including broad-spectrum
antibiotics. See http://waterfall-d-mannose.com/e-coli-bug.htm
Doctors
end up having to prescribe huge doses of antibiotics with cumulative and
sometime permanent harmful side-effects.
Anna Sawkins, the other partner
of Sweet Cures, has herself suffered severe side effects as a result of taking
antibiotics. “Modern broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat bladder
infections and UTIs are chemotherapy by another name,” she says, “and women just
don’t seem to realise the dangers. But we get so many customers telling us the
same stories, and suffering the same side effects, that we have become experts
at recognising the signs. They are saying, 'I've got these incredible joint
pains', 'I've got fibrous lumps in my muscles', 'my tendons are stiff. I can't
lift up my arms, and my ankles hurt when I'm walking', 'I'm getting ME like
symptoms and just seem permanently exhausted', 'I get a lot of intestinal pain',
and 'I just can't seem to think clearly anymore'.”
The
Dangers
According to Drug Watch, adverse affects are reported by 35% of women
using antibiotics. However, the side effects are often delayed, with the result
that both patients and doctors do not associate new symptoms with the
antibiotics that have caused those symptoms. For example, fluorine poisoning
after taking fluoroquinolene-based antibiotics is often misdiagnosed as reactive
arthritis, or fibromyalgia, and an accurate diagnosis of fluorodosis/fluorosis
is difficult to make without specialist knowledge.
“Add to this,” John
Bremner says, “a natural reluctance on the part of doctors to diagnose a
condition that their prescription was responsible for causing, and you have a
growing problem. While it’s true that most people don’t have the more severe
side-effects, if you are one of the unlucky ones, you can be permanently
damaged. Fluorodosis, for example, causes severe joint pains, as your body tries
to deal with the excess fluorine in your system by depositing it on your bones
and joints. It’s also very difficult to treat, and the effects are
cumulative.”
See 'Calls Mount for a Black Box Warning on Fluoroquinolenes' :
http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=109818
Other side-effects that range through the (mainly) broad-spectrum
antibiotics often used against resistant E.coli type infections include tendon
tearing, heart attack, heart murmur, palpitations, angina, cerebral thrombosis,
sudden death on first dose, liver failure, jaundice, gastrointestinal bleeding,
diarrhoea, ulcerative colitis, burst intestine, vomiting, constipation,
irritable bowel syndrome, anaphylactic shock, skin dying or falling off,
dermatitis, vasculitis, angioedema, swelling of the lips, eyes, or face, fever,
chills, lupus, and going purple.
See 'Antibiotic Side Effects' : http://www.cystitis-antibiotics.com/antibiotic-side-effects-uk.html
Seen
as a Threat?
Alternative treatments may still be still seen as a threat in
the UK by some medical practitioners, and particularly by the pharmaceutical
industry who influence them, but Anna Sawkins says that Waterfall D-Mannose is
gradually breaking through these barriers, as a result of people going back to
their doctors after years of cystitis problems, telling them they have found a
natural cure.
“More and more doctors are interested in a way to flush
E.coli from the bladder completely,” Anna says, “rather than just kill off some
and leave resistant E.coli to begin to repopulate the bladder with their
resistant clones.”
Sweet Cures has already helped thousands of women
solve their cystitis problems without antibiotics, and more and more people are
looking for alternative therapies when antibiotics fail them.
Further
information: Sweet Cures, York, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1904-340916. Email: e-mail
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