FDA Allows Chemo Drugs To Be Prescribed As Antibiotics

‘A few popular antibiotics affect DNA, similar to some chemotherapy agents. If you’re sensitive to them, you could pay a neurological price that causes sudden and serious neuropathy and degrees of brain damage. The Food and Drug Administration is concerned about drugs in the fluoroquinolone class, and these already have a black box warning for an increased risk of tendon ruptures. But I’m telling you that more reports have come in with accusations of neurological damage. Personally, I would only use these for life-threatening infections that were unresponsive to older, regular antibiotics.’ – Suzy Cohen, RPh
It is not appropriate to give people cell-destroying drugs when they don’t have cancer. That should be obvious. It shouldn’t even need to be said. But it is happening every day when people are prescribed fluoroquinolone antibiotics – Cipro/ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/levofloxacin, Floxin/ofloxacin, and Avelox/moxifloxacin – to treat ear, bladder, prostate, sinus, and other infections. Fluoroquinolones are chemotherapy drugs. They have just been mass-marketed by the FDA as antibiotics. You may be thinking something along the lines of ‘WHAT? Cipro isn’t a chemo drug. It’s an antibiotic. Everyone knows that.’ Here are several reasons why Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, Avelox, and all other fluoroquinolones should be recognized as cell-destroying chemotherapy drugs:
In an article published in the journal Urology, it was noted that, ‘Ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin exhibit significant time and dose-dependent cytotoxicity against transitional carcinoma cells.’ That’s great – excellent, actually – if you happen to have carcinoma cells in your bladder. But if you just happen to have a bladder infection, chemo drugs that exhibit toxicity toward human cells – cancer or otherwise – are inappropriate for use (1)…

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on October 17th, 2014.