sorry to butt in but you are actually correct in that our hyper sensitivity to germs and requiring antibotics for everything is what is bringing these superbugs to life. I have a germ phobia, and my doc told me because I am soo insanely obsessed with it, Im setting myself up for higher risks of serious infections because not only is everything I use anti bacterial/anti germ, but I took so many antibotics as a kid. the more we fight them, the more immune to our methods they will become. for example Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBLs), another resistant infection, is immune to a host of different antibotics unlike say MRSA thats only immune to Methicillins, or VRE which has become immune to vancomycin.
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Date: 2007-10-19 05:07 pm (UTC)I have a germ phobia, and my doc told me because I am soo insanely obsessed with it, Im setting myself up for higher risks of serious infections because not only is everything I use anti bacterial/anti germ, but I took so many antibotics as a kid.
the more we fight them, the more immune to our methods they will become. for example Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBLs), another resistant infection, is immune to a host of different antibotics unlike say MRSA thats only immune to Methicillins, or VRE which has become immune to vancomycin.