Antibiotic Use in America
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Karl Hardman
LSTD 3443 Ecology and Evolution
Instructor Dr. Steven Gullberg
CST Draft of Final Paper
Antibiotic Resistance and Probiotic Interaction
Studies suggest that antibiotic resistance is a growing problem in the healthcare community that needs to be addressed from a scientific perspective. In this paper we will review the nature of drug resistant strains of bacteria and the relationship between Probiotic use and disease immunity.
Specifically the researchers explores the growing trends in antibiotic resistance and non conventional therapies for combating bacterial infection, which include use of probiotics to relieve bacterial infection, inflammation and help restore the balance of healthy bacteria in the gut. The researchers also reviews evidence supporting the use of probiotics in lieu of or as complementary therapy when antibiotics are used to treat certain illness.
The prevalence of antibiotic resistance has stimulated much interest in the use of probiotics or live microbial supplements to combat infections otherwise resistant to traditional antibiotic therapy. In recent year’s overuse of antibiotics have stimulated antibiotic resistant strains of disease rendering antibiotics useless in many cases (Diped, 2003).
While the discovery of antibiotics marked a changing point in modern medicine, in recent years scientists have begun to realize that the health benefits of antibiotics may be much shorter lived than initially anticipated. As such researchers are struggling to find complementary and alternative methods for treating drug resistant forms of disease that antibiotic therapy once proved sufficient for.
Karl Hardman
LSTD 3443 Ecology and Evolution
Instructor Dr. Steven Gullberg
CST Draft of Final Paper
Thus far there is ample evidence in the natural health community supporting a variety of non conventional approaches to disease treatment. (Diped, 2003). One of the more commonly used methods for combating bacterial infection and...
LSTD 3443 Ecology and Evolution
Instructor Dr. Steven Gullberg
CST Draft of Final Paper
Antibiotic Resistance and Probiotic Interaction
Studies suggest that antibiotic resistance is a growing problem in the healthcare community that needs to be addressed from a scientific perspective. In this paper we will review the nature of drug resistant strains of bacteria and the relationship between Probiotic use and disease immunity.
Specifically the researchers explores the growing trends in antibiotic resistance and non conventional therapies for combating bacterial infection, which include use of probiotics to relieve bacterial infection, inflammation and help restore the balance of healthy bacteria in the gut. The researchers also reviews evidence supporting the use of probiotics in lieu of or as complementary therapy when antibiotics are used to treat certain illness.
The prevalence of antibiotic resistance has stimulated much interest in the use of probiotics or live microbial supplements to combat infections otherwise resistant to traditional antibiotic therapy. In recent year’s overuse of antibiotics have stimulated antibiotic resistant strains of disease rendering antibiotics useless in many cases (Diped, 2003).
While the discovery of antibiotics marked a changing point in modern medicine, in recent years scientists have begun to realize that the health benefits of antibiotics may be much shorter lived than initially anticipated. As such researchers are struggling to find complementary and alternative methods for treating drug resistant forms of disease that antibiotic therapy once proved sufficient for.
Karl Hardman
LSTD 3443 Ecology and Evolution
Instructor Dr. Steven Gullberg
CST Draft of Final Paper
Thus far there is ample evidence in the natural health community supporting a variety of non conventional approaches to disease treatment. (Diped, 2003). One of the more commonly used methods for combating bacterial infection and...