Antibiotics make you susceptible to skin cancer
Do you know that some antibiotics can increase the sensitivity of the skin to the sun and therefore can increase the risk of skin cancer?
Antibiotics make you susceptible to skin cancer
Most people believe that the sun is the risk factor for developing skin cancer, and hardly anyone is considering that there can be very different causes. Antibiotics, for example, make the skin only really sensitive to sunlight and therefore increase the risk of skin cancer considerably.
The skin protects itself
Human skin is not defenseless against the sun. Different mechanisms of protection of the organism to preserve them from sunburn, from the negative effects of UV radiation and, therefore, from malignant skin cancers. The p53 protein, for example, among all the body’s own sun protection mechanisms plays a fundamental role.
The protective police force against cancer
p53 not only protects the skin from the sun and consequently from skin cancer. p53 belongs to a type of protective police against cancer, which is in the care of the whole body that there are no cancerous changes. So one can degenerate into cells, no matter where they are in the body, extremely high levels of p53 are seen, whereas in normal cells and no p53 proteins are present. What does p53 do in transformed cells? Ensures damaged DNA regions * are repaired. If it turns out that the damage is irreparable, p53 causes the death of the diseased cell to prevent it from evolving from a tumor.
* = DNA genetic information in the nucleus
Cancer occurs only when the body’s own protection against cancer is blocked.
However, if p53 is blocked in some way, the cells multiply and degenerate and tumor formation occurs. Also, defects in the p53 protein lead to enhanced photocarcinogenesis – this is the development of skin cancer due to sun exposure.
Antibiotics block the body’s own sun protection.
However, p53 is not immortal. It is sensitive to cigarette smoke, X-rays, mold toxins and drugs such as antibiotics or in some very general chemotherapy. Under the influence of these confounding factors there are defects in the p53 molecule that now protect its ability, the skin against the sun and the body from cancer, is lost.
Various antibiotics are prescribed for many different ailments, not only in p53 they inhibit its activity, but also in other endogenous protective mechanisms against UV radiation. These include antibiotics like those in the fluoroquinolone class, such as levofloxacin or ciprofloxacin. Applications for these products are pneumonia, urinary tract infections, bacterial infections, and many other intestinal infections.
In reality, fluoroquinolones should only be prescribed when it comes to fighting pathogens that have been compared to standard antibiotics that have already developed resistance. This planned economical use of fluoroquinolones had at least two reasons: in case, on the one hand, the fact is true that an effective means is not available in an emergency, and he wanted the patient to avoid the serious side effects of this class of antibiotics. as long as possible.
Manufacturers advertise risk antibiotics
However, since fluoroquinolone manufacturers go to great lengths to establish fluoroquinolones through strong publicity to the therapist as antibiotics of choice in outpatient practice, they are much more common than originally intended use. The result: further development of resistance in dangerous pathogens and patients who are threatened by serious side effects.
Withdrawals of six antibiotics
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are known to damage the heart and liver to promote tendon tears, trigger allergies, and cause psychosis, which can lead to suicidal wishes in the patient. Particularly due to their toxicity to the heart and liver, six (in the US nine) fluoroquinolone antibiotics were withdrawn from the market in Germany, usually later, shortly after admission and few deaths and liver transplants.
The information leaflet is worth reading
In the United States it was the reason for four withdrawals, antibiotic phototoxicity, which resulted until AFTER the drug was approved and the patient had suffered severe skin damage. This does not mean that the remaining fluoroquinolones were not phototoxic, it simply means that currently approved drugs carry a warning on their package inserts, saying that the sun should be avoided during therapy. Who does not read the newspaper and on a sunny day takes a happy but unfortunate walk.
And standard antibiotics increase the skin’s photosensitivity.
So the best solution would, as you might think, remain the use of standard antibiotics, such as doxycycline or amoxicillin, over side effects (at least not life threatening) such as diarrhea, destruction of intestinal flora, yeast infections, to “enjoy”, etc., and fluoroquinolones can only be used in an emergency. Unfortunately, however, it is only doxycycline, one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics, also for those drugs that block the body’s protective mechanisms against UV radiation and thus promote skin cancer.
Antibiotics as maintenance therapy for acne?
Doxycycline is often used in the long-term treatment of Lyme disease or acne. This means that the patient in question withdraws this antibiotic for MONTHS. Acne patients are mostly young. Aside from the fact that they have to do better overall than studying a drug’s package insert, which raises the question of whether they should now really reside for months or even years in the house. Or can it be masked just venturing out into the open? After all, for example, it informs the health insurance technicians on its website, that they must (avoid apart from the usual activities such as reading the brochure, Sun 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., etc.) to avoid phototoxic reactions caused by drugs. , but please nice UV opaque films for house windows and car support, to indemnify and survive long-term therapy.
Sun phobia brings vitamin D deficiency
What is the consequence of such a phobia of sunlight to drugs? Although the patient remained, if you want to take the advice, from the acute skin damage caused by direct sunlight, but suffered (for long-term therapy), sooner or later, a chronic and serious deficiency of vitamin D.
Vitamin D is normally produced by sunlight which affects the human body itself, while diet contributes only a negligible part to vitamin D status. Therefore, a vitamin D deficiency is inevitable when people have become addicted to television. However, low levels of vitamin D are in turn associated with a variety of diseases. These include osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.
WHO recommends antibiotics for prevention
Antibiotic therapy provides the patient with almost desperate conflict. On the one hand, you need to avoid the sun, on the other hand, it can lead to very serious diseases, a lack of sunlight. From this point of view, it is impossible to understand how the WHO recommendation to use doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis was arrived at. In other words, the WHO recommends that people who wish to travel to certain regions of the tropics take doxycycline as a preventive against malaria. For this purpose, one should take one tablet a day, starting a week before they leave, then all the holidays away, and another four weeks if they are back home. Unfortunately, the WHO did not bother to explain how it should be possible during a vacation in the well-known sunny tropics, but to avoid the sun due to long-term use of doxycycline.
What Really Causes Skin Cancer?
With the widespread long-term use of effective phototoxic or photocarcinogenic drugs for chronic diseases, which are not acutely life-threatening, the question is vehement, whether the number of ever-growing skin cancer cases is not much more with these drugs. together is like the annoying sun on all sides.
Opening new paths
Especially with chronic diseases, it must be taken into account that there are ways that are quite remote from conventional medical therapies. These are therapies that – activate the body’s self-protection and self-healing mechanisms and do not weaken it as – unlike the drugs mentioned above. Antibiotics are unavoidable, while one should be on a particularly nutrient-rich diet and basenüberschüssige should be practiced to help the body in this at least positive way. After antibiotic therapy you can also take actions that serve to detoxify, lead to the restoration of the intestinal flora and strengthen and strengthen people in general again.