Study done on dementia patients raises question
2008-02-27 15:17:37 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)Chicago
It was reported that the antibiotics should be taken carefully as the overuse of antibiotics is the reason for mounting problem of drug resistance in the people especially in dementia diseased people and acts as super drug-resistant bugs, as suggested by a new provocative study. With the message of this new study regarding antibiotics, the new question has raised whether it is fine to withhold this futile form of treatment and allow people to die or whether the issues regarding public health should be reconsidered.
Dr. Susan Mitchell, a senior scientist with the Harvard-affiliated Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research in Boston as a co-author of that study said that complex dementia is a deadly illness and if ‘advanced dementia is substituted by ‘end-stage cancer’, there would not be any problem arise in understanding this complexity by the people. Most of the experts together with the Alzheimer’s Association considered Alzheimer’s as well as other type of dementias, an incurable brain disease. People suffering from brain disease may die due to other infections like pneumonia or such other complications but the root cause of their death lies only because of damage of the brain cells.
Researchers, during a study done on around 200 people suffering from dementia in Boston area nursing homes, reviewed their medical records to check the type of treatment and care they were getting and it was found that 42 percent among those people were also given antibiotics. And during the continual research of 18 months, almost half of them have died. The result came out as the closer these people were towards death, they were likely to be given more antibiotics.
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