Big Pharma deflects responsibility for gruesome antibiotic side effects

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A recent ABC news item featured an unfortunate tragedy of a women hospitalized in an intensive care burn unit with Stevens-Johnson syndrome after taking a pharmaceutical antibiotic. This "rare" syndrome is gruesome.

She was placed into intensive care of a burn unit in the University of California Irvine's burn unit, as 70 percent of her body is burning "from the inside out".

Dr. Joshua Zeichner, a dermatology professor at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan commented to ABC on this issue. "You're not truly burned, but what happens is you have compromised the skin barrier function." In other words, the epidermis separates from the dermis and 2nd and 3rd degree burns and blisters manifest painfully.

Zeichner added that this reaction occurs mostly from antibiotics. Another doctor interviewed in the ABC coverage of this tragedy that antibiotic reactions usually involve gastrointestinal (GI) issues.

The ABC went with the Big Pharma spin on this tragedy that it occurred only because the poor young woman took a prescription antibiotic that wasn't prescribed to her. She got it from a friend. Oh really now, what BS (bogus syndrome).

Here's the ABC newscast if you want to experience their spin yourself.

Even Dr. Zeichner commented, "Unfortunately, we have no way of predicting who would have this type reaction." (emphasis added)

When's the last time you were tested for an antibiotic intolerance or as they say, allergy? Instead you are briefly asked "are you allergic to any medications?" What! You're expected to know which one of hundreds of pharmaceuticals out there you are "allergic to" even if you've never had any of them?

Pretty lame if you ask me. But your answer should be "all of them" if you want to avoid adverse effects. And if so rare - how come there is a Steven Johnson Foundation Site.

Avoid Pharmaceutical Antibiotics

The point is beyond this overuse of pharmaceutical antibiotic nonsense that's hyped to make the public concerned about pharmaceutical antibiotics not working anymore. There's no real proof they actually ever did, really. But there are many unpublicized reports of nasty side effects that result from Big Pharma's purported little life savers.

The sub-clinical chronic health issues are totally ignored. But many studies confirm they do exist. Most of us know about the GI tract friendly bacteria damage. But pharmaceutical chemically based antibiotics are actually a form of chemotherapy that causes more cellular damage, sometimes long term, than most recognize.

This is especially true with the fluoroquinoline series of antibiotics. Even after national TV news specials about the gruesome effects of these fluoroquinoline antibiotics were shown, the media still pushes the dangers of supplements and the foolishness of organic foods while making horrific adverse drug reactions (ADR) isolated incidents and promoting how the "benefits outweigh the risks".

Ambulance Chasers Don't Go After Empty Ambulances

Greg-Jones, a law firm specializing in prosecuting drug companies for victims of adverse effects has this to say about Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and its disease cousin Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) as a side effect of many pharmaceuticals and Big Pharma antibiotics.

From the Greg-Jones website home page: "Stevens-Johnson syndrome has a mortality rate of 5%. Toxic epidermal necrolysis may be fatal in up to 50% of patients."

"More than 200 drugs are linked to SJS/TEN, particularly antiepileptics, NSAIDs, penicillins and sulphonamide antibiotics."

They don't collect their fee unless they win the case. So they must feel confident about what ambulances they're chasing.

And more than one MD has offered a report explaining how many deaths are caused from correctly prescribed drugs. One of them is Dr. Barbara Starfield, who in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) of July 26, 2000, revealed the American medical system kills 225,000 people per year - 106,000 as a direct result of pharmaceutical drugs correctly prescribed.

Even more staggering is a 2003 report gathered by Dr. Carolyn Dean called "Death by Modern Medicine", which puts the annual death rate much higher. Her latest edition of the book Death by Modern Medicine puts the current death rate at a million annually, again from correctly prescribed drugs and procedures.

Medical Mafia is the right tag for the allopathic medical monopoly that lies to discredit alternative (real healing and prevention) while propagandizing their synthetic drugs that harm more than heal.