Recently I read a short article in the Züricher Zeitung raising the alarming issue that antibiotics become less and less effective. A Swiss study gives evdience about the fact that each year a minimum of 80 people dies from infections caused by antibiotic resistant microorganisms. 10 years ago it happened occasionally during one year that a patient came down with an uncurable infection from multirestistant bacteria. Today this is the case at least once a week.

Treatment costs surmount already the magic figure of several million Euros per year. Main culprit for this development is us who use anitbiotics thus squandering. Bacteria are skillful creatures. They are well able to escape our killing machines. They change their genetic outfit and become resistant. The more we use antibioics the more this development is going to accelerate. This could turn out to be a dangerous blind street one day. We should seriously start to consider ways out before it is too late.

One possibility is to use antibiotics more deliberately, not to prescribe them because of trivial infection which are in most of the cases virus infection anyway. One should know that virus infections do not respond to antibiotics.
Physicians apply antibiotics because they mean well and think they act for the good of the patient or they don’t want to take the risk of getting sued in the worst case. They are obviously not aware of the fact that they contribute to a development to the worse, not only concerning serious infections, but also the increasing incidence of allergies that may be related to excessive antibiotic use.

I think infections got so much demonized in our society because of having been the killer number one in earlier centuries. They may achieve this status again if we are not carefully handling our most potent tool, the antibiotics. Use them when needed. In most of the cases they are not justified. We should always try to identify the culprit before using our most famous and favoured therapeutic tool.

Moreover, there are possibilities to enhance immunity to avoid infectious diseases or support a milder course of the disease. Biestmilch is a perfect substance to do so, to prevent infections or dampen their courses. On top of this biestmilch is very helpful in company with antibiotics. Antibiotics only kill bacteria, the immune has to do the job of debris removal and curing. Antibiotics may stress your immune system, biestmilch supports and balances the immune system, and thus the healing processes.