Antibiotics are they curing us or killing us? - McKenna, John (Gill & Macmillan, 2014)
The mucus membranes
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Antibiotic Story; Third-generation antibiotics; Second-generation antibiotics; Other first-generation antibiotics; Discovery of penicillin; The pre-antibiotic era; Chapter 2: What We Know about Antibiotics; Chapter 3: Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics; The consequences of multidrug-resistance; The solution; Multiple drug resistance; Plasmids; Mutation; How bacteria develop resistance
The human face of resistance The use of antibiotics in farming; The role of the drug companies; Chapter 4: Infections to Be Concerned about; Antibiotics can cause infections; Urinary tract infections; Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB); Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB); Tuberculosis (TB); Chapter 5: How Antibiotics Affect the Gut
How antibiotics can affect the liver Antibiotics can lead to loss of nutrients; Complications; Diagnosis; Symptoms and treatment; Source of infection; Antibiotics can predispose you to parasites such as giardiasis; Antibiotics can cause candidiasis; Antibiotics can cause colitis; A multi-vitamin/mineral supplement; Probiotics; Antimicrobials; Diet
How is dysbiosis treated? How is dysbiosis diagnosed?; Antibiotics can cause intestinal dysbiosis; Chapter 6: The Link with Diabetes; Dispensing medical practices in the UK; Do antibiotics cause diabetes?; Drug company admits new antibiotic causes diabetes; Chapter 7: Antibiotics and Vaginal Thrush; Metals; Weakened immunity; Diabetes; Drugs; What are the other causes of vaginal infection?