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Why you should urge your friends, families and strangers to read this blog: www.grossaninstitute.com

Every day our antibiotics are getting weaker because of unnecessary overuse. Thirty years ago, whatever infection you or your child presented with, all you needed was a prescription for penicillin. Today there are few infections that even a megadose of penicillin will affect.

Why are antibiotics becoming ineffective? Why are people dying of illnesses that previously only needed a shot of penicillin? Because drugs are handed out whether they are indicated or not, and people demand them.

In a recent article in Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr Bucher tested 252 adults. with proven sinusitis. These patients had :

A yellow drainage
B. felt sick enough to see a doctor
C. had pain in the sinus area
D. most had fever

Blindly, some were given placebo and others were given a common, expensive, highly recommended sinus antibiotic. Patients took their medication twice a day for 6 days. He found no advantage of the antibiotic over the placebo in terms of improvement of symptoms and “getting well”. But with the antibiotic there was some diarrhea and upset stomach among the users.
This research is similar to one published in Lancet that reached a similar conclusion.

Essentially the more antibiotics that are handed out unnecessarily, the more resistant bacteria we generate. Is this important? Yes, people die in our hospitals because the antibiotics are ineffective.

What the www.grossaninstitite.com site does is tell about non-antibiotic methods of treatment and why they work. How to utilize your mind for therapy. After all, if study after study shows that placebos work, why not utilize those principles in your therapy?

If everyone reduces unnecessary antibiotics, then you personally will benefit with fewer resistant bacteria to contend with. Here are some ideas:

1.Do not brow beat your doctor to prescribe antibiotics when he/she says antibiotics are not needed.
2. Consider non-antibiotic therapies personally.
3. Complete and finish any antibiotic prescription as prescribed.
4.Avoid small ineffective doses of antibiotic.
5.Tell friends and even straingers about the importance of avoiding antibiotic abuse.

This is what I see regularly in my practice: J.L., 36 year old woman comes to my office after six weeks of an antibiotic for sinusitis. Now she has a vaginal infection caused by the antibiotic. What clears her sinusitis? Hot tea lemon and honey to restore her nasal cilia. If she had taken this in the first place she wouldn’t have needed the antibiotic.

I run across well meaning health blogs and items: How to Treat Your Sinuses.
a.Irrigate 3x a day
b. Use “miracle” nose drops
c. Use “miracle” herbs plucked by virgins under a full moon
d. See your doctor for the latest pills
e. See your doctor for the latest surgery

Not one tells of raising your immunity, getting good sleep, restoring good cilia function, not blowing your nose too hard, the medical articles showing infection from pots and squeeze bottles, etc.