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If You Take Antibiotics, Make Sure You Don’t Take These at the Same Time
Contributed by Rhett Bergeron, MD
Sunday, 11 March 2007
Last Updated Saturday, 10 May 2008
During the winter months, infections are common. Bacterial and viral
infections seem to come on strong when the weather turns cold. As a
result, many people start taking antibiotics to beat bacterial
infections. If your doctor writes you a prescription during this time
of year, there’s one thing you should never take while you’re using the
antibiotics.
The reason antibiotics work is because they’re a poison. They kill
bacteria. Unfortunately, they kill good bacteria as well as bad
bacteria. Your body relies on good bacteria to help you break down your
food and digest it. When you take antibiotics, they greatly decrease
the number of good bacteria in your digestive tract. So you don’t
digest your food as well. And that can lead to an upset stomach, bowel
problems, and heartburn.
As a result, many people
reach for antacids to help settle their stomach. However, you should
never take antacids while you’re also taking antibiotics. Here’s why:
First,
antacids make antibiotics less effective. Taking antacids with
antibiotics, especially ones like tetracycline or quinolones (e.g.,
Cipro) can reduce the drugs’ ability to fight bacteria up to 90%! This
means you could take the antibiotics but never get better. If you’ve
got a chronic infection that won’t go away, this could be why you still
have it.
But the problem is even worse than that.
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When the antacids reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics, it increases
the likelihood that the bacteria will survive and become resistant! So
you may take more and more antibiotics to fight the infection – and
never find relief.
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Adding insult to injury,
taking more antibiotics will only worsen your trouble. Antibiotic
overuse can cause upset stomach, painful urinary tract infections, and
yeast infections.
Instead of turning to
antibiotics and antacids to solve all your infections, look for other
ways to fight them off. For instance, most urinary tract infections
will go away when you take CranActin, a cranberry concentrate
supplement from Solaray. CranActin is available in most health food
stores. While there are times when antibiotics are absolutely
necessary, many infections can be fought off with natural remedies. In
future issues of Wisdom’s Edge, I’ll tell you about natural antibiotics
and other ways to fight infection.
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If you do end
up taking antibiotics, don’t turn to antacids to help the digestive
problems. Instead, use a good probiotic formula. Probiotics are natural
bacteria that are good for you. They build your body’s good bacteria
population so your digestive tract can function naturally. There are
many good ones on the market. Shop for the best price. They are usually
inexpensive, so if one brand doesn’t work for you, try another one.
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(Dr.
Bergeron is the director of the Covenant Health Clinic in Atlanta,
Georgia. For more information about the clinic or to set up a phone
consultation with Dr. Bergeron, please call 678-990-5401. You can also
e-mail questions to Dr. Bergeron here. He can’t respond to all the inquiries, but will answer as many as he can in these
pages.)
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