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.

Initially I thought yes as I’d have died after childbirth. But actually, pre antibiotics I wouldn’t have had my baby brought early for no real reason. She would have come out when she was ready without all the risks caused unnecessarily and in all likelihood, neither of us would have required extra care or antibiotics.

My DP currently has a dental abscess and once he’s finally pain free and able to think straight, I’m sure he’ll be incredibly grateful that we have antibiotics available.

Definitely dead after three PPHs

Thank God for modern medicine

My grandmother died of sepsis ten years before penicillin came on the market

Not in future..see my later post…2o21 study …1.2 million people dying form associated causes of resistance to antibiotics….happening now.

Actually, allergy to penicillin is COMMON. and can be very nasty for some people
see my later post, it probably wouldn’t be approved to market these days based on severity of side effects ..a bit like paracetamol which can be all too dangerous…they were approved a long time ago now…

Sorry, should say vaccines 2nd biggest saver of human lives after clean water…or maybe third if count green revolution….my mistake,

Sepsis from a large ovarian cyst burst.

I might have survived some of the other incidents over a lifetime, but I have not doubt that one would have killed me. I have never gotten so sick, so fast in my life. Just walking along without a care in the world to collapsed on the ground in agony in a split second. The fever came along surprisingly quickly, though I honestly don’t remember much aside from being in a lot of pain.

My dad would also be dead, he had osteomyelitis and is allergic to penicillin so thank god for alternatives

Without a doubt. Antibiotics have saved my life about thirty times or more.

Yes, meningitis aged 54

Definitely- uterine infection after second baby. It was very hard to pinpoint what was wrong and started on antibiotics before the doctor was sure- I remember being very grateful that we have modern medicine.

Great question. Definitely - I got an infection in my leg from a hot tub. It was bad.

Yes definitely. Had rampaging cellulitis on my leg that nearly turned into sepsis

I had to have a C-Section because DD was a breech baby. The consultant tried turning her, but she didn't shift. Without antibiotics, I don't know if I'd have survived the surgery. The doctor(s) might have opted for a natural delivery, but I'm not sure how I (and DD) would have fared.

I also had appendicitis. Again, I'm not sure if I'd have survived the surgery without antibiotics.

I'm very grateful for modern medicine - antibiotics and anaesthetics.

All these posters saying yes because they had a c section - can I ask did you all get given antibiotics as a precaution? I never did and wondering why?!

Also I just wanted to add that not everyone with an infection will die from it. Lots of people saying yes they would have died because they had this and that infection - the body does naturally fight this. Yes, you may have died from it without antibiotics but you might not have done. Not everyone before antibiotics died if they had an infection.

Not me personally, but my mum before I was born. 🤣. Oh, c sections are a tricky one. I guess if it was fully aseptic and good hygiene alsoways you would have had a reasonable chance of surviving. Just watched a YouTube clip on penicillin discovery with DD, ww1 before antibiotics 30% soldiers in battlefield died of infection. Ww2, after antibiotics it was less than 1%. So maybe postnatal death from c section could be quite high. But far off certain.

I think i would have survived fine from any times I have had them for infections. I haven't needed antibiotics many times in my life and would have just had to put up with the discomfort and potential scarring. The tooth abscess one would have been the worst, I couldn't eat or sleep with the pain and had to call the dentist as soon as they opened on the Monday.

However I have had 2 cesareans and you get given preventative antibiotics for that. Who knows what kind of death rate surgery in general would have without access to antibiotics.

Yes pancreatitis. I was lucky my GP spotted it and sent me straight to the hospital. 24 hour anti biotic drip.

Yes. I had a very bad infection after my appendectomy, was very ill in hospital on IV antibiotics and oxygen for some reason.

Also had uterine infections after both my babies were born.

Would also be dead without blood transplants, needed one after the appendectomy (I also had a kidney issue at the same time and lost large amounts of blood in my urine) and one after my youngest was born.

Probably not. I haven't had a lot of antibiotics in my lifetime (I'm 65) and I'm pretty sure I would have eventually recovered from my minor illnesses.

Possibly…I had a bad infection after childbirth, and a serious dose of pleurisy a few years after that.

Yes. And two of my children would definitely be dead. The other two - one has rarely had a day’s sickness in his life, the other would be about 50/50.

Probably. Had courses in the past for strep throat, and was on them after childbirth along with transfusions and god knows what else.

Yet the pharmacy industry is struggling in Britain - at least in its local, accessible versions although trade in medicinals has been mentioned with the Trump issues. It’s as if our government wants to kill us off.

Most likely. I had an infection in my thumb once that started to spread downwards. Antibiotics killed it pretty promptly. Mad to think that could have ended me a hundred years ago. Or I guess they could have cut my hand off.

No I think I’d be fine however one of my DC wouldn’t have lived to see her first birthday definitely…which doesn’t bear thinking about!