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Diabetics may need more antibiotics

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Hunya
Hunya

Wounds take longer to cure for people with diabetes, who may need a double course of antibiotics if they are still responsive to the treatment, to avoid septic wounds, which can lead to amputations.

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  • Micklemus
    Micklemus Hunya

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    Not only patients with diabetes but those needing longer treatment with antibiotics that eradicate an infection completely.......... We are told that 'we' should not take antibiotics unless it is absolutely necessary......... if an individual has half a brain 'we' already know that don't 'we' ?

    For donkey's years there has been a discussion among doctors and cell biologists on the subject of the length of an antibiotic course that eliminates an infection but some doctors or rather most doctors give perhaps a weeks course of antibiotic generally do they not ?

    Seeing the adverts on the television this past two years re the taking of antibiotics when not needed the doctors themselves are mostly responsible for the resistance of certain infections that are not killed by a weeks course of antibiotic given so therefore there is a small pool left alive that become resistant to some of the antibiotics given. This may have been financially

    driven or a lack of scientific evidence re the short course of antibiotics. Take for instance ladies water works problems when three tablets are prescribed???????? Is this the reason why there are now thousands who have many problems associated with resistance and that resistance not being recognized by numerous doctors. The adverts on the television place the blame squarely at the door of the patient which in many cases is not on.

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