Many people have not heard of natural antibiotics, and those that have are often confused as to their effectiveness and relationship to the traditional class of antibiotics.
As we shall see in this article, a greater public understanding of these wonderful drugs is essential if we are to continue protecting patients from serious and harmful infections.
In recent years the spectre of drug resistant hospital infections has loomed over us.
Diseases such as MDMA and C.
Dificile will, given the right environment, such as a hospital ward, or a care home, run rampant.
The difficulty of these types of infection is that they have become immune to standard treatments - primarily traditional antibiotics.
Antibiotics are used to treat all manner of bacterial infections, from a simple ear ache, to a patient recovering from major heart surgery.
It is the ubiquity of these drugs that is leading to their decline in effectiveness.
Since penicillin was discovered over eighty years ago by Dr Alexander Fleming their use has increased year on year - and therein lies a problem.
For as the use of antibiotics increases, their effectiveness decreases.
Every time a patient takes a course of antibiotics there is a chance that some bacteria will survive.
These single bacterium will reproduce, and in time, among the hundreds of millions of people who take antibiotics each year, resistant strains appear.
In response to this crisis, medical practitioners are starting to show more restraint when prescribing antibiotics.
Where previously you may have been prescribed antibiotics for a suspected throat infection, you may now have to wait a few days until the infection is confirmed.
An alternative solution comes in the form of natural antibiotics.
These cures are derived from natural plants that over millions of years of evolution have developed their own, natural defences against hostile bacteria and fungus.
Using extracts from these plants, supplements can be produced that are not only effective against the strains of bacteria that are evading traditional antibiotics, but are also kinder and gentler too the patient.
Many of these natural antibiotics are from common plants, some which we use for food.
The treatments can be taken as a long term measure, helping to prevent as well as cure diseases, without any concern for a patients health.
As the trend of decreasing effectiveness and decreasing availability of traditional antibiotic treatments such as penicillin and its derivatives continues, more health care processionals and pro active consumers are turning to these natural, safe and effective remedies.
As we shall see in this article, a greater public understanding of these wonderful drugs is essential if we are to continue protecting patients from serious and harmful infections.
In recent years the spectre of drug resistant hospital infections has loomed over us.
Diseases such as MDMA and C.
Dificile will, given the right environment, such as a hospital ward, or a care home, run rampant.
The difficulty of these types of infection is that they have become immune to standard treatments - primarily traditional antibiotics.
Antibiotics are used to treat all manner of bacterial infections, from a simple ear ache, to a patient recovering from major heart surgery.
It is the ubiquity of these drugs that is leading to their decline in effectiveness.
Since penicillin was discovered over eighty years ago by Dr Alexander Fleming their use has increased year on year - and therein lies a problem.
For as the use of antibiotics increases, their effectiveness decreases.
Every time a patient takes a course of antibiotics there is a chance that some bacteria will survive.
These single bacterium will reproduce, and in time, among the hundreds of millions of people who take antibiotics each year, resistant strains appear.
In response to this crisis, medical practitioners are starting to show more restraint when prescribing antibiotics.
Where previously you may have been prescribed antibiotics for a suspected throat infection, you may now have to wait a few days until the infection is confirmed.
An alternative solution comes in the form of natural antibiotics.
These cures are derived from natural plants that over millions of years of evolution have developed their own, natural defences against hostile bacteria and fungus.
Using extracts from these plants, supplements can be produced that are not only effective against the strains of bacteria that are evading traditional antibiotics, but are also kinder and gentler too the patient.
Many of these natural antibiotics are from common plants, some which we use for food.
The treatments can be taken as a long term measure, helping to prevent as well as cure diseases, without any concern for a patients health.
As the trend of decreasing effectiveness and decreasing availability of traditional antibiotic treatments such as penicillin and its derivatives continues, more health care processionals and pro active consumers are turning to these natural, safe and effective remedies.