Do you think you would be dead without antibiotics?

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I'm pretty sure I would. Or be alive with one leg.

Yes flesh eating cellulitis.

Possibly malaria which I had in my 20s.

I think I'd be alive. I've only ever taken them for acne (age 45). Ds has just had his first lot age 12 for tonsillitis but I dont think it would have killed him. Dd has never taken them but she's only 4.

Yes, I would have likely died from sepsis

Not sure.

I've had several courses which definitely shortened my suffering but I almost certainly wouldn't have died.

I had a preventative dose with some surgery, which is probably the only time I think it could have been life-saving. They were cleaning out some yucky stuff, so I'd imagine the infection risk was quite high.

Yes. If I had survived the raging infection, and subsequent surgery, as a youngster then I would have died from sepsis when pregnant with DC#2. DC would have certainly died too. Scary.

Yes stomach abcess would likely have killed me

Yeah, I'd have died from a dental abcess when I was 15.

Yes. Asthma, chest infections, pneumonia

Infective mastitis which developed into a breast abscess could have become puerperal fever. OTH a generation earlier it might have been avoided if I'd had competent community midwives who understood an iota about breast feeding.

Yep kidney infection. If that hadn’t got me
my first baby would have wiped me out.

I couldn't count how many times I've had anti-biotics in my life.

I'm asthmatic, so lots of bacterial chest infections plus steroids. Childbirth, four gynae surgeries. Tonsillitis.

I probably would have died from the asthma as a child though.

Gosh definitely.
Been on so many antibiotics drips .. once for 5 weeks.
( I'm severely disabled).

Yes, and my newborn wouldn’t have survived past a week.

Probably not. I've had teeth infections but would probably have survived.

I have a child and have never had antibiotics. DS is 15 and has had antibiotics once in his life when he was about 5

No but then I’ve only ever had one course of antibiotics in my life after my c-section and I think that was a just incase. However I do think that pregnancy could have killed me, definitely realised how an ectopic can kill you.

Antibiotic resistance is truly terrifying though, DD had repeated infections as a toddler that were incredibly difficult to shift.

Antibiotic resistance is such a looming danger. I really worry about a time in the not too distant future when people actually will die due to a lack of antibiotics.

Some people seem to think it's a personal thing; a person might find antibiotics working less effectively if they themselves use them too frequently, without understanding that its the antibiotics themselves which cease to be effective for everyone.

A colleague travels to see family overseas where antibiotics are sold over the counter and she brings back boxes of broad-spectrum antibiotics such as Amoxicillin and Doxycycline which she'll administer a few here and there if a family member feels under the weather or has a bit of a sore throat. She carries them in her handbag and has offered me some at work when I felt unwell. She says that's how she's grown up taking them and won't hear a word against it. It's so frustrating ‐we really need to preserve and protect the antibiotics we have left which still work!

Yes and I have often wondered how so many people survived before they were discovered.

No. But that's because I'm very lucky.

Not so much antibiotics, but I might not have survived appendicitis age 15 without surgery.

Possibly. I had something unpleasant and unusual as a toddler. It was treated with antibiotics and IV fluids plus nutritional support of some kind. Details are a bit hazy as my parents’ memories now a bit fuzzy.

Likey I’d have made it even without the antibiotics though - but I’m guessing the fluids and general care were possibly or equally or more important.

Yes. Pneumonia.

yes,

What standard antibiotics for childbirth? I’ve never had any and I’ve had 3 children.

No, I don't think I've ever had antibiotics as an adult.