The old tried and trusted drugs are better
The moral of this research is very clear. If you live, work and play in the larger community and you fall sick with a bacterial infection, you don’t need to pay the higher prices for the new antibiotics. You’ll do just as well by relying on atypical antibiotics like Doxycycline. Don’t be misled by sharp advertising put out by the pharmaceutical industry. Save money by using the traditional remedies. More importantly, don’t give all bacteria the chance to become resistant to the newer drugs. Save them for when the need is greatest.
Down under in Canada, they’ve just finished one of the world’s biggest studies into the treatment of pneumonia. Working for the University of Ottawa, Dr Patrick Charles took samples from 1885 patients diagnosed with pneumonia in five hospitals over a two year period. He analysed swabs taken from the nose and throat, and samples of blood, sputum and urine. They were all from nursing homes and other residential facilities where people had picked up bacteria resistant to the older antibiotics.