Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 This is what happens normally, but I don't agree for patients with CFS. Many times there are bacterial infections that can be cured only through long term abx treatments. The same for children, it is not so much common to see young children with CFS, although there are some. There are more teen ageers than children with CFS. Massimo Antibiotics use From today's HSI Alert: . . . . Reason One: A 2004 study revealed that excessive antibiotic use may be linked with a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer. In that study, the women who had the highest rates of cumulative days of antibiotic use over 17 years had a sharply increased risk of death due to breast cancer. Reason Two: In a 2003 study of antibiotic use among children, nearly half of 448 children were found to have received antibiotic treatments within the first six months of life. Among those children, the risk of developing asthma was two and a half times greater than among children who received no antibiotics within their first six months. Risk of developing allergies was also significantly increased in the antibiotic group. " Rapid Flu Tests May Reduce Threat of Antibiotic Resistance " EurekAlert, University of Rochester Medical Center, 1/22/07, eurekalert.org " Antibiotic Use in Relation to the Risk of Breast Cancer " Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, 2004, ama-assn.org " Asthma and Antibiotics " Jon Barron, Baseline of Health, 10/13/04, jonbarron.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 TAke one step back in the possible process of developing cancer or asthma. Perhaps the kids who needed all the antibiotics and the women who got breast cancer after having a lot of antibiotics had some inflammatory problem going on PRIOR to taking antibiotics. Even in this day and time MDs don't just throw antibiotics at folks like candy. They are generally in the doctor's office sick with something. a Carnes > > From today's HSI Alert: > . . . . > Reason One: A 2004 study revealed that excessive antibiotic use may > be linked with a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer. In that > study, the women who had the highest rates of cumulative days of > antibiotic use over 17 years had a sharply increased risk of death > due to breast cancer. > > Reason Two: In a 2003 study of antibiotic use among children, nearly > half of 448 children were found to have received antibiotic > treatments within the first six months of life. Among those children, > the risk of developing asthma was two and a half times greater than > among children who received no antibiotics within their first six > months. Risk of developing allergies was also significantly increased > in the antibiotic group. > > > " Rapid Flu Tests May Reduce Threat of Antibiotic Resistance " > EurekAlert, University of Rochester Medical Center, 1/22/07, eurekalert.org > " Antibiotic Use in Relation to the Risk of Breast Cancer " Journal of > the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, 2004, ama-assn.org > " Asthma and Antibiotics " Jon Barron, Baseline of Health, 10/13/04, > jonbarron.org > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 A second study (published remarkably quickly after the first one) showed no elevated risk: Use of Antibiotics and Risk of Breast Cancer L. A. García Rodríguez and A. González-Pérez From the Spanish Center for Pharmacoepidemiologic Research, Madrid, Spain Received for publication September 21, 2004. Accepted for publication December 20, 2004. A recent nested case-control study found that increasing use of antibiotics was associated with a significantly elevated risk of breast cancer. The authors attempted to replicate this finding with a similar study design using the General Practice Research Database in the United Kingdom. Women aged 30–79 years who were registered in the database between January 1995 and December 2001 comprised the study cohort. A total of 3,708 women with incident cases of breast cancer and 20,000 frequency-matched controls were entered into a nested case-control analysis. Use of antibiotics was not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. For categories of increasing cumulative days of use (1–50, 51–100, 101–500, and & #8805;501 days), the corresponding odds ratios were 1.0 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.9, 1.1), 1.0 (95% CI: 0.8, 1.1), 0.9 (95% CI: 0.7, 1.0), and 1.2 (95% CI: 0.9, 1.6) (p = 0.31 for trend). On the basis of these results, antibiotic use does not appear to be a major determinant of breast cancer risk. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/161/7/616 > > From today's HSI Alert: > . . . . > Reason One: A 2004 study revealed that excessive antibiotic use may > be linked with a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer. In that > study, the women who had the highest rates of cumulative days of > antibiotic use over 17 years had a sharply increased risk of death > due to breast cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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