Eradicating Dangerous Bacteria May Cause Permanent Harm

[Michaelangelica]

Dr. Blaser sounded the alarm to the medical community and to the general public, that the widespread use of antibiotics may be having unintended consequences causing permanent changes in the body's protective, friendly flora and causing harm to the body's natural defense system. This may be even more dangerous to health than the creation of resistant "superbugs," which have garnered much attention over the last few years.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0824131547.htm

[pebble]

Dr. Blaser sounded the alarm to the medical community and to the general public, that the widespread use of antibiotics may be having unintended consequences causing permanent changes in the body's protective, friendly flora and causing harm to the body's natural defense system. This may be even more dangerous to health than the creation of resistant "superbugs," which have garnered much attention over the last few years.

They're finally catching up then ;-) (the doctors I mean).

[mischief]

Yeeep.
I first became aware of this after watching a doco on a doctor who went to Bali after That bombing, to help treating some of the locals who had been injured and not treated.
One man had a screw lodged in his leg, for something like 6 months.
This doctor said quite matter of fact, that the reason it had not become infected as it would have in any western society,was because he had never been exposed to antibiotics...
That was it for me, never again.