Fleming quoted ( can’t find the exact quote ) in layman’s terms “ that the stupid man shall UNDERDOSE the antibiotic , for to SHORTER time , and cause resistance “but put far better than that.
Now resistance comes from using antibiotics unnecessarily....and also from the ridiculous prophalatic treatment of UTIs generally in women , this is what causes resistance as you are giving the bugs a taster all the time which allows them to change and grow stronger and this has a huge effect on the wider community, sooooo many ladies on prophalatic treatment and children.
Also the 3 day course of antibiotic treatment for UTIs is absolutely crazy ( better off with none ) because a vast majority of ladies keep getting what they think is a new infection, but it’s the original one that has not been kiilled off effectively the first time round and then becomes resistant , the 3 day course is and will cause huge problems....A higher longer does would hit the bug on the head straight away , in most cases .what they did years ago , the average women had two weeks of antibiotics for a UTI with far less reacurrance , the UTI ends up becoming a bio-film that is near on impossible to kill off , air has become very smart and learnt how to deal with low does / prophalatic antibiotics.
Also it is now known , evidence is coming through from around the world that UTI testing is inaccurate, and 50% are missed in labs.
Re the food chain this is a huge problem ( wether monitored or not ) farmers can also buy over the net , and antibiotics are also sprayed on fruit and veg ( example blueberries) , antibiotics in the animals water / injected etc is then got into the farmers environment, he takes it home into his house , the animals waste is put into the land and off into the waterways , antibiotics are everywhere ,
Your farmed fish antibiotics ....all for the want of cheap food .....until food costs what it should nothing will change ......we have most definitely used antibiotics inappropriately in the past coughs/ colds but also underused them for to short a time at to low dose as Fleming predicted and this is what causes resistance, of which now I fear it is almost to late.
One of the biggest problems in care homes for the ladies is almost constant UTIs , UTIs can also mimic dementia, and some specialists are now giving not 3 but ONE day of antibiotics. Don’t need to be Fleming to realise what that’s doing .
Don’t underestimate what you are eating , wether a meat eater or not , source your food well and ask questions where it’s come from , a chicken should not cost under £5.00 , that cheap it is obvious corners will be cut and the quickest, cheapest way of doing so is drugs and that includes antibiotics.
Also the OP could have got “ Quincy “, problem is we have gone the other way with antibiotics, and the short courses / prophalatic are the biggest worry / cause of resistance.
In twenty years time that cut in the garden may very well kill us , need to get our own immune systems working and that comes from what we eat / environmental and there’s the irony because so much of what we eat is full of chemicals .
It’s why I source all my food from start to finish , it’s expensive but we cut back a lot elsewhere. The animals do still get antibiotics, but not routinely across the board but when necessary, however I
barely eat meat anymore anyway , the worlds population is beyond coping with and trying to feed us all is a massive task , and in doing so it’s making us ill “ we are what we eat “ in the summer my organic local strawberries lasted 24 hours , the Asda ones nearly 3 weeks in the fridge , loaves of bread can last a very long time now ....none of this is good it’s really bad.
No I’m not some puritanical person ,
rose tinted , most definitely not wealthy person .....just a realist.
So avoid antibiotics at all costs , but when needed they need to be prescribed correctly and that is not necessarily for the shortest lowest dose.
Also another problem is because GPs etc are almost terrified of prescribing antibiotics, it’s very easy to buy them off the net , which is even crazier .