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Sunday, September 7, 2008

BESIDES KILLING BACTERIA WHAT ANTIBIOTICS DO SIDE BY SIDE

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Disease is the altered state of health.

We all live in the environment which influences our body system. In optimum condition of the environment we should enjoy good health. Sometimes there exist external agents which are believed to cause disease.

Let's consider a triangle. At its three summits three factors lie, namely:
  • Host = The organism / human being
  • Agent = disease provoking / causing factor
  • Environment
State of the hosts health is the equillibrium of these three factors. In optimum environment host's defense is of prime importance. Unless Agent is too strong for any quality of host defense where no organism can live, it is the host resistance which will determine the state of health.

When our body resistance is defeated by the strength of the disease agent then ensues break down of health. As stated earlier,  Disease is the altered state of health. No disease can exist without a living body.  Bacteria can be grown in the lab, not the disease.

It's the weak host defense which is responsible for causation of disease.  Role of the bacteria is secondary.

Amazed ?
Ok. come on.  Let's think of a winter evening and a few friends gossiping on a football ground after play. Foggy weather. Next morning one or two of the guys catch cold and contract flu,  the rest keeping completely normal. How come ?
The environment and the agent remaining the same for all of them, why should some fall ill ?


It's their weak defense, nothing else.

If only we could raise a man's defense, as we do in case of vaccination, disease would have never existed.

But antibiotics never raise our defense, rather they help lower it. They only kill the bacteris for us, only for the time being. If you always walk a weak person, never she tries to walk herself, what's going to happen to her strength ? Just imagine.

It's the case with us too. With our defense.
Besides the recognized side effects ranging from trivial bowel disorder to fatal bone marrow depression, the unnavigated realm of antibiotic effects do exist and waiting to be explored.
I'm going to tell my own story, happened to me before I entered medical college. Just hang on for the next post.
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