1-"If we continue to pop antibiotics like sweets, the reality is that, when we really need them for what could be a life---threatening illness, there will be no effective antibiotics left to take."
2-Mrs Glover said that the public's over-reliance on antibiotics and failure to complete courses of medication was also contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
3-The more bacteria are exposed to antibiotics, the greater the chance that they will build up resistance to the drugs.
4-A study of patients with sore throats in South Wales, published in the British Medical Journal, showed that doctors often prescribed antibiotics because they felt patients did not want to waste time with other treatments.
5-They also said it was quicker to prescribe the drugs than explain the negative effects of overusing antibiotics, which patients often did not understand.
6-A survey found that 55% of the 250 respondents wrongly thought antibiotics could cure all coughs, and 47% that they could cure all cases of flu and colds.
7-One in five thought antibiotics were a cure-all for sore throats and earache, and one in three that they could cure all stomach upsets.
8-The survey also found that one in three people sometimes forget to take their tablets, while 16% of men and 8% of women admitted that they stopped taking the antibiotics if they began to feel better.
9-The researchers said a third of patients expected to be given antibiotics when they attended the GP surgery, although they did not tell the doctor this.
10-For instance, one doctor would prescribe a single dose of antibiotics for a urinary
tract infection, while another doctor would prescribe a course of drugs lasting for
many months.
11-In one of the studies, both of which are published in the September 1st issue of the British Medical Journal, investigators calculated the number of side effects in over 34,000 procedures performed during a 4-week period by 574 professional acupuncturists.
12-But White, the author of the second study, notes that he was surprised because as many as 1% of patients were made worse for a short while after acupuncture.
13-Swallowing fewer than 10 tablets of the most commonly prescribed iron supplement (ferrous sulphate, 200
milligrams) can be fatal to a toddler. If a child takes an overdose of iron, medical advice should be sought immediately. 14-Light drinking, and even relatively heavy alcohol intake, appears to protect elderly adults from small blockages in brain blood vessels known as ``silent strokes.'' The trade-off is that drinking of any kind may help kill off brain cells. 15-However, Mukamal pointed out, cell death does not fully explain the brain shrinkage seen with heavy drinking, since studies of alcoholics show some brain atrophy can be reversed.
16-By testing these viruses in mice and judging how sick they made the animals, the researchers identified a single mutation in a gene called PB2 that probably made the 1997 virus turn lethal.
17-``For the drugs to be of any use, huge quantities would need to be immediately available, and means for their rapid distribution would need to be in place beforehand,'' they write. But ``supplies of these drugs at the moment are woefully inadequate.''
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