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The Antibiotic Paradox (Paperback)

by Stuart B. Levy (Author) "450 DIE AS FLAMES AND PANIC TRAP COCOANUT GROVE CROWD ..." screamed the headlines of the Boston Herald on Sunday morning, November 29, 1942, filling..." (more)

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Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Perseus Books; Revised edition edition (14 Dec 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0738204404
ISBN-13: 978-0738204406
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

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Briefly looks at the history of antibiotics, argues that their misuse has led to the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria, and discusses the ecological impact.

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I show how the miracle drug ultimately destroys the miracle
This Paradox that I highlight in this text is fast becoming the truth of the time. While antibiotics help your loved ones get better, they can also be death. I urge all people to ask their doctor, 'is this the right alternative for me?' You may find out that letting nature take its course could be the best medicine! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"450 DIE AS FLAMES AND PANIC TRAP COCOANUT GROVE CROWD ..." screamed the headlines of the Boston Herald on Sunday morning, November 29, 1942, filling almost the entire top half of the front page (Figure 1.1, next page). Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars The book was well explained and educational, 16 May 1999

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This review is from: The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs are Destroying the Miracle (Hardcover)

Could the chemicals that help us survive today become useless in the near future, leaving us defenseless against dangerous bacteria. This is a very real possibility. In The Antibiotic Paradox by Plenum Press, Stuart Levy confronts this problem. Antibiotic resistance is not a new problem it has been known about since antibiotics were discovered. Still, we are learning more about how it works. The book also talks about how it can be controlled. The first antibiotic was penicillin, which was extracted from a mold. Penicillin was used in small quantities in WW2. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, warned that if many small doses of penicillin were given then the microbes would be educated to resist the medicine. As more kinds of antibiotics were discovered the problem of resistance seemed unimportant. This is despite studies during the 40's and on that more and more resistant bacteria are being found. How are these bacteria becoming resistant? There are a couple ways that bacteria can become resistant. These ways are all started by an initial mutation. In a colony of bacteria one or two might have a certain mutation that makes them resistant to an antibiotic. When an antibiotic is used to kill that colony, the only bacteria left are the resistant ones. Now those bacteria have no competition for resources and they start to multiply more quickly. So there now is a colony of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Often the bacteria is harmless so we are not going to get sick but sometimes it is a disease causing bacteria. There are two ways that bacteria can resist an antibiotic. One is that the outer membrane is not very permeable to the antibiotic. The other is the bacteria can secrete an enzyme that destroys the antibiotic. The second is more dangerous because the harmless bacteria could be secreting this enzyme and destroying the antibiotic which will enable the harmful bacteria to survive. The other problem is sometimes harmless bacteria gives their plasmid, which contains a resistance gene, to harmful bacteria who will then become resistant. How can we keep the bacteria from becoming resistant to all our drugs? This is where the paradox comes in, how can we use antibiotics effectively without allowing bacteria to become resistant to them? First, we have to limit the use of antibiotics. They should be used only when nothing else will work and only when it is necessary. This is often hard because patients might demand to have the drug when it is not needed, but the doctors must make the final decision. There also are places where no restriction on use is followed. For example on resistant strain of bacteria was traced to brothels in Vietnam where penicillin was given to prevent disease in the women. Scientists have also found bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. This is why we need to control the use of them so all of them don't become useless. We need to be aware of the problem that exists and try to stop it from getting worse. I think the book is a little repetitive because it repeats the same message too often. The message is that if we don't use antibiotics responsibly than they will become ineffective. This is a good point but it is easy to understand so it doesn't have to be repeated. Other than that it does a good job of making me aware of a problem that I hardly knew existed. I even try to think of other ways we can limit the misuse of antibiotics, like only allowing them to be injected so the patient will not try to get them unless he or she really needs them. It is important for a book to make you think.

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