I have a firm stance on this issue.
It’s brought up due to being in a public place and overhearing two middle aged females discussing the fact that they were putting a senior citizen that they were caring for on a three-time-a-day antibiotic Intra venous program, for some reason that I could not discern.
I absolutely cringe when I hear about these kinds of measures.
I of course don’t know exactly what the IV antibiotics were being used for, and perhaps the woman was on her death bed. But I don’t think that she was.
What we can be quite certain of, is that with the modern-day use of antibiotics in general, a pro-biotic protocol is almost never suggested as a compliment and counter-effect to the internal gut flora destruction that will happen with any high-dose antibiotic treatment like this, and as such, we can count on a continued…and aggressive…deterioration of this woman’s immune system, the very thing she likely needs the most, especially at her advanced age, in order to fight off what ever else may come her way.
Again: I was under the impression that this treatment was something they were simply “doing” to deal with an infection, being two women that both seemed to hold jobs in a conventional medicine establishment.
If the older woman was indeed dying, the IV stream as a last resort may be called for.
However…if she was not dying…as much as I hate to say this…she likely will be dieing sooner than she cares to with the level of immune system disruption such a drastic measure as using antibiotics via IV will cause her.
Why not try high-dose sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) via IV instead?