Why Antibiotics Can End Up Harming More Than Helping
Nowadays there is certainly a lot of talk about how antibiotics are being overused and end up harming more than helping. In the case of bacterial vaginosis, this is very much the case and to understand why you first need to realize what happens each and every time you begin a course of antibiotics. Only then will you realize the full impact of what is going on.
Frankly speaking, antibiotics were once regarded as a 'miracle cure' of sort by the medical community. Doctors were prescribing them with impugnity for a variety of different ailments, and the end result was simply that people's systems were practically overloaded with antibiotics that did very little to help but instead dramatically lowered our natural immunity.
At the same time, repetitive use of antibiotics results in our bodies developing an immunity to the antibiotics themselves, meaning that in order for us to continue to cure ourselves with antibiotics, we needed to take stronger and stronger doses. In turn this only really resulted in us becoming immune to stronger and stronger versions of antibiotics.
Mind you - it wasn't just we who were becoming immune. Over the years, diseases have been gradually mutating and developing immunities of their own. Nowadays, many of the big diseases have mutated into what are known colloquially as 'superbugs' and are more and more resistant to even the strongest of antibiotics.
In the case of diseases such as bacterial vaginosis, this is particularly potent seeing as women very often require several antibiotic treatments over the course of a given year. After all, in over 50% of cases that are treated with antibiotics, the bacterial vaginosis eventually comes back and rears its ugly head - which leads to another round of antibiotic treatment.
Repeating this trend will only add fuel to the fire, until eventually you're going to end up facing other problems too, not the least of which being the side effects from the antibiotics themselves! Keep this in mind, and if your doctor recommends antibiotics as a treatment for bacterial vaginosis - be aware that you could be starting to slide down a very slippery slope.
Largely, when it comes to bacterial vaginosis, antibiotics are only a 'quick fix' solution that rarely lasts long. Remember this, and don't end up falling into the 'antibiotics' trap so long as you have other options still open and available!
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