Antibiotics Keep You and Your Kids Sick

By now you have probably heard just a little bit about how Americans are overusing antibiotics for common ailments and how this is leading to a concern about the entire population eventually becoming immune to the positive effects of the drugs.
People are loading tons of antibiotics into their systems, often with no benefit except to the manufacturers of antibiotics. The end result is not pretty in terms of what we are doing to our collective immunity against the big diseases, which of course mutate more and more every day into super bugs.
Do you really want to be part of this trend towards lowering humanity's resistance to disease? All of this over prescribing of antibiotics is leading to even more resistant bacteria.
We also perpetrate stronger strains of fungus and bacteria the more we allow ourselves to be medicated with antibiotics.
Women and children who take several rounds of antibiotics a year to treat things liked bacterial vaginosis, bladder infections and earaches are among the most chronically sick in society.
Is there an alternative? -The alternative is to wake up and realize that life style changes, not magic bullets are the key to getting of this treadmill of antibiotic intolerance.
In a very wide variety of complaints, doctors may prescribe antibiotics without a clear indication of a “bug” that is susceptible to antibiotics – “just in case”. The problem is that sometimes there are no bacteria to kill, only a virus. Antibiotics simply do not work on viruses – only bacteria.
That is why it is so crucial for you to make sure that you are actually suffering from bacterial vaginoisis and not infectious vaginosis which is caused by sexually transmitted viruses. Viruses simply will not respond to antibiotics and you will be lowering your resistance and immunity for no good reason.
Worse yet, people without proper medical training may push antibiotics or misguided persons may “self-medicate” with them. One really nasty habit is to never finish the initial round of antibiotics that was prescribed you. The reason this is a disaster is because every time you do this you give the bug time to mutate and overcome the power of the antibiotic.
The result in the long run is a massive amount of the population developing severe allergies to atibiotics that normally would treat even non-life threatening conditions.

Over the long term your immune system may become compromised and you will find yourself donating even more money to the pharmaceutical companies to treat the following conditions that are caused by the overuse of antibiotics –

• Bad breath
• Depletion of helpful intestinal bacteria
• Chronic candida yeast overgrowth
• Chronic urinary tract infections
• A lowered resistance to viruses, fungus and bacteria
The 'prescribing antibiotics' just in case approach to life is bringing super bugs and their damaging consequences closer to the fore. We are not far away from the day when a new strain of BV that is not curable at all by existing antibiotics.

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Ask for Help With Your Baby

One mistake I made when my baby was born was to turn into a control freak. I just would not let others help me with my problems. It's because I felt like I had to be hands on all the time. I was particularly mean to my partner that way. He felt like I did not trust him.
The truth is that I made a mistake by not letting the father of my child help me more. I did not give him the chance to help me with the baby. I treated him like he was clueless and therefore he acted like he was. It was not that I deliberately set him up to fail but I did not encourage him to help me as much as I should have. I also felt like I was going to have to teach him everything.
I regret that attitude especially as I see how great he is with the children now. I realize that he could have learned by trial and error how to take care of the kids just like I did. I was just as clueless as him when I took home our very first child.
Very few husbands walk away from helping. However there are that few that go 'You are much better than me than that stuff.' Don't let your husband get away with this. He is just as responsible as you for the post labor predicaments that take place. If you don't give them an opportunity to practice their parenting skills they will never learn them at all.
I found too that I had great success with simply turning to other women for help. I had many neighbours take me under their wings. As I was new when I first moved here they helped me find everything from a paediatrician to a yoga class to a preschool. They also kept me sane after the baby was born. I really do think that the wisdom and compassion of other women is absolutely essential after you give birth. It seems that only another mother can truly understand how excited, overwhelmed and scared we feel when we first have a baby. Let's face it! It is just too hard to talk to a man about things like nipple latching' or nipple cream.
Yet another good reason for bonding with women in your neighbourhood simply to help each other with things likes babysitting. I shared a sitter twice a week with one neighbour just to give my other kids some play time together and to keep the total costs of my babysitting down.
You might also have to eliminate friends who are just not that helpful or critical of your mothering skills. Some of us have friends that are giant children in themselves. They are like grown up little girls and expect you to mother them even after you have had a child of your own. Needy girlfriends may no longer be able to get the attention that they seek from you.

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