Urgent: Docs Sneaking Patients Extra Pills?!

By Jack Taylor Posted January 16, 2020

Dear Turapür Today Reader,

If there’s one mainstream method I truly cannot stand, it’s treating antibiotics as some sort of quick-fix cure-all.

Despite learning more and more about these meds (and the dangers of drug-resistant superbugs) many docs just keep doling out dangerous prescriptions… throwing antibiotics at everything they see.

“Got a cough? Take this.”

“The flu? Here’s another…”

But at the end of the day, these meds often do NOTHING to benefit patients!

Instead, the targeted bacteria ADAPTS to overcome the drug… leading to stronger, tougher superbugs and a cycle of sickness and death that docs don’t know how to break…

And now, new research reveals that the problem is WORSE than we ever thought.

Because a startling number of Rxs are completely UNNECCESSARY!

I’ll explain how it’s happening in just a second. First, here’s what it means: Mainstream docs are openly risking superbug creation… for basically NO REASON!

Thanks to their recklessness, there’s no telling how many folks could get sick… or if they’ll ever recover…

But there’s a simple way to keep your family safe: Say no to extra antibiotics.

In the new study, published in the BMJ last month, Oregon researchers tracked a sample of 28,000 ambulatory care visits (representing 990 million nationwide) during 2015.

Now, “ambulatory care” refers to general medical care that takes place outside of a hospital or institution – which means that researchers catalogued visits to primary care providers, urologists, dermatologists, gynecologists, and similar practitioners.

Then, they analyzed the number of antibiotics prescribed and checked that data against recorded reasons for each Rx…

And the results weren’t pretty.

Researchers found that 25 percent of antibiotics – 1 in every 4 – were inappropriately prescribed.

In other words, the conditions in question often didn’t require or weren’t able to be resolved by antibiotics!

In many cases, that’s likely due to docs using antibiotics (which are effective against bacterial infections) to treat viral infections – things like cold, flu, coughs, and sore throats that DON’T respond to such meds.

And it gets worse…

Because while 25 percent of scripts were outright inappropriate, the indications behind another 18 percent weren’t documented at all!

There’s no way to tell if those meds were effective (or even necessary) against whatever condition those patients had… meaning that ALL of them could’ve been inappropriate!

We just don’t know…

But unfortunately, it suggests that up to 43 percent – almost HALF – of all scripts in this study may have been irresponsibly prescribed.

As I shared before, that’s the kind of behavior that helps superbugs grow and change… ENDANGERING innocent lives as they get harder to treat.

To protect yourself (and your loved ones), the best thing you can do is talk back.

Next time your doc suggests an antibiotic, tell him what you know about these dangerous drugs – and ask if you actually need one.

Odds are, you don’t.

Do you have feedback you want to share? Drop me a line: feedback@turapur.com.

Regards,

Jack Taylor
Department of Research, Turapür Products