Iodine and Antibiotics
A great feeling of security for a parent comes from administering a
medicinal like iodine. It is what I give my children instead of
dangerous antibiotics when they are sick. It is what I use when the
first symptoms of flu approach and it does spare one the worst of that
misery. After we understand that iodine is an excellent antiviral,
antibacterial, anti fungal, mold and yeast agent we begin to glimpse the
catastrophic mistake made for substituting pharmaceutical antibiotics
for iodine.
Antibiotics do not kill yeast but they certainly can kill people on occasion.[1]
Not only do some antibiotics increase the risk of sudden cardiac death
but sometimes they lead to liver compromise and failure. Despite the
ever-widening use of antibiotics the National Center for Infectious
Disease and the Centers for Disease Control announced that the U.S.
death rate from infectious disease increased by more than 50% between
1980 and 1992, making it the third leading cause of death.
Studies have documented the association between increased rates of
antimicrobial use and development of resistant infections thus doctors
who prescribe antibiotics irrationally should be rebuked. There is a
growing consensus among infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists
and control experts from the U.S. and Europe about the dark side of
antibiotic use. In the right form iodine is every mother's cherished
medicinal heavyweight because it can save a child where antibiotics,
often today, will not.
According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write
2,645,000 antibiotic prescriptions every week. Internists prescribe
1,416,000 per week. This works out to 211,172,000 prescriptions annually
in the United States, just for these two specialties. Pediatricians
prescribe over $500 million worth of antibiotics annually just for one
condition, ear infections. Yet topical povidone iodine (PVP-I) is as
effective as topical ciprofloxacin, with a superior advantage of having
no in vitro drug resistance and the added benefit of reduced cost of
treatment.[2]
Many women find after taking antibiotics, they get vaginal yeast
infections (because their normal bacterial balance has been lost).
Antibiotics bring on fungal and yeast infections thus will eventually be
seen as one additional cause of cancer since more and more oncologists
are seeing yeast and fungal infections as an integral part of cancer and
its cause. With upwards of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused by infections[3] the subject of antibiotics and the need for something safer, more effective and life serving is imperative.
Every day, new strains of bacteria,
fungi, and otherpathogenic microorganisms are becoming resistant to
theantibiotics that once dispatched them with extreme prejudice
Though it kills 90 percent of bacteria on the skin within 90 seconds its
use as an antibiotic has been ignored. Iodine exhibits activity against
bacteria, molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many viruses; indeed, of all
antiseptic preparations suitable for direct use on humans and animals
and upon tissues, only iodine is capable of killing all classes of pathogens: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoa. Most bacteria are killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.
Iodine is by far the best antibiotic,antiviral and antiseptic of all time.- Dr. David Derry
Dr. Derry says that iodine is effective "for standard pathogens such as
Staphylococcus, but also iodine has the broadest range of action, fewest
side effects and no development of bacterial resistance." There is a
world of difference between using an antibiotic – anti-life substance –
and a antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal substance like iodine, which
is life serving because it is a basic and most necessary nutritional
substance.
Iodine kills single celled organisms by combining with the amino acids
tyrosine or histidine when they are exposed to the extra-cellular
environment. All single cells showing tyrosine on their outer cell
membranes are killed instantly by a simple chemical reaction with iodine
that denatures proteins. Nature and evolution have given us an
important mechanism to control pathogenic life forms and we should use
it and trust it to protect us in ways that antibiotics can't.
[1]
Ray WA, et al. (2004). Oral erythromycin and the risk of sudden death
from cardiac causes. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(11):
1080–1096. A recent large study indicates that people who take
erythromycin along with certain common medications may increase their
risk of sudden cardiac death.
[2]
Evaluation of topical povidone-iodine in chronic suppurative otitis
media; Java C et al; Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003 Oct;129(10):1098-100 ; Entrez Pubmed
[3]
A major U.S. scientist says cancer – always believed to be caused by
genetic cell mutations — can in reality be caused by infections from
viruses, bacteria, yeasts, molds and fungus parasites. "I believe that,
conservatively, 15 to 20 percent of all cancer is caused by infections;
however, the number could be larger — maybe double," said Dr. Andrew
Dannenberg, director of the Cancer Center at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center." Dr. Dannennberg made the remarks
in a speech in December 2007 at the annual international conference of
the American Association for Cancer Research.
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