Antibiotic Resistance 'one Of The Most Dangerous Global Crises Facing Modern World'

[naomi24]

//Public Health England (PHE) has launched the new "Keep Antibiotics Working" campaign to tackle the growing resistance to the drugs.

TV and radio adverts and posters have been produced to discourage patients from asking their GPs for antibiotics as the NHS heads into the busy winter period.//

http://news.sky.com/story/campaign-urges-people-to-stop-asking-for-antibiotics-to-prevent-apocalypse-11094616

Do you often ask your GP for antibiotics?

[dannyk13]

Yes, I have COPD and am susceptible to chest infections.I always get the same antibiotic and it always works for me.

[Sqad]

One should never ASK for anything other than his advice.

[mikey4444]

I had a nasal and chest infection, after a heavy cold, that started about this time last year, and wasn't really over until late January this year. Every time I went to the Doc, he refused to give me any antibiotic, saying that it would clear up of its own accord. Well it did, although it took 3 months.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, my GP is quite happy to rely on my judgement as to when I have an infection that requires an antibiotic.

[Gromit]

GPs hand out anti-biotics like confetti because they get paid to do so.
The Government should halve the payments and save £millions, and the prescribing rate would fall dramatically.

[naomi24]

I know someone who asks for antibiotics for every sniffle - and gets them - but then, in my opinion, she and her family abuse the NHS in all sorts of ways. It's their 'right' don't ya know!

[murraymints]

my doc does not give them out willy nilly and has a sign up in the surgery saying NOT to ask for them..however I have had a fair few in recent times for a recurring chest infection.. hate taking them but....

[Sqad]

Gromit

"GPs hand out anti-biotics like confetti because they get paid to do so."

I don't think so....whop told you that?

dannyK......good......I wouldn't.

[mikey4444]

If GPs are giving out scrips for antibiotics, that they know won't work, surely its them that we should blame, not patients who may be desperate to get well ?

[-Talbot-]

I never ask for them and often even when the doc has proscribed them I don't use them.
I really do have to think I'm at deaths door before I will take antibiotics.

[Sqad]

mikey......medicine is that simple.
Many times one needs to treat the patient rather than the disease, which may be a quite different approach.

[Sqad]

"isn't" that simple.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, so what would you recommend for a chest infection in someone with long term COPD?

[ummmm]

I avoid taking them to. I'd have to be in severe pain.

[murraymints]

you come up to me Danny..I'll take care of you...all you have to do is be my private lexicon !! xx

[murraymints]

I hate taking them too ummmm..but needs must when the devil drives...

[Sqad]

danny.......antibiotics.
Only if i was asked my advice rather than being told to prescribe them.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, I would never dream of telling my GP to prescribe anything. I contact him when I get an infection and he then prescribes an antibiotic.

[Sqad]

danny ;-)

What is your indication (sign or symptom) that you have a chest infection?

[murraymints]

my doc always looks for alternative treatments for any ailment first of all before writing a prescription..and he is usually right.... he told me to do steam inhalers for my bad ear..thought he was wide of the mark as I was in a lot of pain..but he was bang on..steam opened all the tubes ..the eustachian was sticking following a heavy cold and the sudden opening up from it's sticky anchor was causing the pain..cleared by inhaling steam for a few weeks...