control, because of resistant bacteria. it s growing because we re overprescribing antibiotics. what should we do about this? somebody comes to see me, i might want to check a streptest if they have been around strep. but i probably don t want to just give them antibiotics and say your throat is a little red. i want to check a rapid strep test if i have a suspicion, but those can be false negatives. you could have strep, and that could be negative, so a throat culture could be a better idea. a throat culture of a rapid strep test. i shouldn t look at someone and say you re sick, i m going to give you an antibiotic. it s easy to get a z-pack, you get it and get cured. how do you know when enough is too much? isn t it bacterial versus viral, also? that s the best message. it s sunday housecall. if they know this, they don t
me, i want a z-pack. i want a z-pack. in the hospital this is going on because you have a very sick patient and you re worried about missing something but doctors have to realize when you give out an antiobiotic, you re also killing the good bacteria and drug companies are making much less antiobiotic. gregg: it s expensive to do that sort of thing but they need to spend the money. also livestock. a major component in antiobiotic resistance is the overuse of common antiobiotics in human and livestock. this can endanger humans when they eat meat. the same exact thing is happening in a cow that i just described in a human. when you give an antiobiotic that a cow doesn t need, in the gut of a cow, a resistant bacteria grows. it grows out of the gut into the soil. it can get into the water. it gets into the fertilizer. it gets into the crops. so either from eating meat or you can get it from eating
on this and we got a sneak peek. he s a preventative medicine expert. it s something you re not supposed to get. but what happens is that you take an antiobiotic you don t need and it knocks out the good bacteria as well as the bad bacteria. there s good bacteria in there that s protecting you. it s protecting your gut. when the good bacteria is knocked down, bad bacteria can now swarm and freedom nature. you get a lot of die via, a lot of symptoms. if you have chronic illness, you can die from this. gregg: who is to blame? with a common cold, which is normally a viral thing, they re giving you a bacterial z-pack, right? you re so right about that. 95% of the upper respiratory infections we see are viral. and the c.d.c. estimates that 50% of the antiobiotics prescribed in this country are unnecessary. and a lot of that is going on in the doctor s office because patients do come in and say to
need it? that is the problem. what you just said you want the antibiotics and the doctor is obligated to give it to you. one statistic that marc mentioned 259 million prescription for 309 million population. the problem is the doctors and the patients are involved in this. look, imagine going to see your doctor and you wait in the waiting room. finally you see him. you walk out of the office and say you know what? maybe we should wait and see and do nothing. get rest and drink fluid and call me tomorrow. eric: i paid $200 for that? right. there is a knee-jerk reaction that the doctor is pulling out the prescriptions too often. let me just say that antibiotic has been a great weapon to bacteria for the last 80 years. when alax zender fleming discovered this in 1927, its has saved millions of lives. but at that time, we didn t know much. over the years we became casual. z-pack of the world and prescriptions.
16. they re in juvenile court. that means they ll be serving until they re 21 years old. so basically four years. a disturbing case, mike, especially because of the social media that was involved, allegedly video taping the girl as she was in trouble and the like. mike tobin with the very latest, guilty. thanks so much. jamie. any other breaking news out of that case, we ll bring you as it happens. how about happening again? carnival cruise lines, four ships in four weeks experiencing some trouble. we re going to fill you in on the latest cruisenitely not shi. and there s a frightening warning from the fda about the extremely popular type of antibiotic. that z-pack. you go to the doctor, they hand it out sometimes like candy. what you want to know. the doctors are in to tell us about the latest on z-packs. i m here at my house on thanksgiving day,