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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Post Partum and Obsessive Thoughts

Have you been diagnosed with post partum depression? If so you might have yourself dealing with obsessive thoughts.
Sometimes these thoughts are fears that your baby will become sick and die. Other times you get a fear that you might hurt the baby. Many new mothers feel like they are going crazy.
Here are some tips for dealing with those types of thoughts –
First of deal with the thought, don't dwell. If it is a realistic fear then just don't sit there. Do something about it.
If the thought comes as the result of a day dream then pay attention to what the dream represents. For instance if you are dreaming about crashing in a car then maybe the theme is control. It is time to examine that thing in your life that you feel you are losing control over.
Stopping your thought does not work of obsessive thinkers. In fact the more you fight the thought, the more likely it is to take over.
Cognitive behaviorists have a solution to this. First of all you need to notice and accept the thought. Then call upon your relaxations response and attempt to relax your body from head to toe.
Thirdly you will need to breathe. Inhale for two seconds and then exhale for four.
Fourthly soothe your mind with three or four calm sentences. The less attention you give a bad thought the sooner it leaves.
You might also want to try thought blocking. Write the obsessive thought down again and again until you become desensitized to it. Write until your hand hurts and you cannot write anymore.
Remember that we are not our thoughts.
We are our actions.
The bottom line is that your thoughts do not represent who you are. What you think about is not a critical s what you tell yourself about what you think.
Fear is ne of the most powerful of emotions. It I normally protect us from harm. It is a gift. Without fear and the brain chemicals that go with it we would not be able to keep ourselves safe from anger.
One way to keep obsessive thinkers in balance is to use humor. Humor is the counterpoint of fear and also creates powerful 'feel good' chemicals in the brain.
Unfortunately many people who suffer from depression lose their sense of humor.
To try and combat this assigns one whole section of your journal to obsessive thoughts. Write out the thought.
An example would be 'What if I drop the baby?'
Counter this thought with a positive one such as 'I am in control.' And 'Caring for my Childs automatic.'
You would then question why you are feeling a certain way and identify it. 'What is really bothering me?
What happened to trigger this?
Your next step is to make a plan to solve this problem. Write outdo plan of action. Try using a relaxation tape every day for two weeks.
You may have noticed that you need to be very patient in order to reformat your thinking in these ways. However it works to cure anxiety once and for all so stick with this program.

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