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Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down [good news!]
Slashdot ^ | 5/16/11 | samzenpus

Posted on 05/16/2011 6:21:17 PM PDT by Clint Williams

Doctors have discovered that adding sugar to antibiotics increases their ability to knock out persistent staph infections (abstract). Certain types of bacteria called persisters shut down their metabolic processes when exposed to antibiotics. Adding sugar keeps the bacteria feeding, making them more susceptible to drugs. From the article: "Adding such a simple and widely available compound to existing antibiotics enhances their effectiveness against persisters, and fast. One test showed that a sugared up antibiotic could eliminate 99.9 percent of persisters in two hours, while a regular antibiotic did nothing. Doctors believe that this discovery will help treat urinary tract infections, staph infections, and strep throat, but its most life-saving application may be against the age-old disease tuberculosis. This infection of the lungs kills many people, and is hard to fight off. A little sugar could help save a lot of lives."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antibiotics; bacteria; sugar
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To: Rudder
Don't call me honey, we hardly know each other ;). Of course it will raise blood sugar, I knew that, the other poster didn't know it. Dextrose is a sweetener made from corn and I am allergic to it but I am not allergic to honey.
21 posted on 05/16/2011 7:53:52 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Clint Williams; Admin Moderator

Why don’t you post the article itself instead of link to Slashdot? (Nearly) All Slashdot posts refer to external primary sources. Please refer to primary sources and skip citing Slashdot, the intermediary.


22 posted on 05/16/2011 7:57:58 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Free Vulcan
Sugar at very high concentrations is a bacteriacide.

Until modern times, honey was used to keep bagpipe bags sterile.

23 posted on 05/16/2011 8:07:51 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: call meVeronica

Bumper


24 posted on 05/16/2011 8:10:24 PM PDT by call meVeronica
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To: call meVeronica

Bumper


25 posted on 05/16/2011 8:10:33 PM PDT by call meVeronica
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To: call meVeronica

Bumper


26 posted on 05/16/2011 8:10:33 PM PDT by call meVeronica
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To: sionnsar

Until modern times, honey was used to keep bagpipe bags sterile.

At least they weren’t able to reproduce...


27 posted on 05/16/2011 8:13:10 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ditter

Dextrose is another name for glucose(which is what we
call blood sugar)since it circulates in the blood
and it necessary as a source of energy to power the
many chemical reactions we make. When your blood glucose
(dextrose) drops too low, you can get dizzy, get the “shakes”.
etc, and it get way low you will pass out,as your brain needs it to function.
Who told you that you were “allergic” to it? Or does
“allergy” mean that you cannot tolerate it if you eat it?


28 posted on 05/16/2011 8:21:18 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Clint Williams

Explains why I like a full package of cookies with my antibiotics :-).


29 posted on 05/16/2011 8:21:28 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: bunkerhill7

That song is prohibited by the FDA. You have 24 hours to turn your self in.


30 posted on 05/16/2011 8:21:42 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing to America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: bunkerhill7

45 years ago man time flys


31 posted on 05/16/2011 8:21:49 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: pandoraou812
ping

Info for the next time you have to take anti-biotics.

32 posted on 05/17/2011 12:29:52 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Clint Williams

For some bacteria, xylitol is quite effective.

Xylitol is a five-carbon sugar alcohol, made from birch bark.

Quite sweet to the taste. Does not raise insulin levels. The body naturally manufactures it every day.

Seems some bacteria get confused and think it’s fructose, so they absorb it, But they don’t have the enzymes needed to break it down.

So the bacteria croak.
They die of what amounts to constipation.


33 posted on 05/17/2011 12:39:20 AM PDT by djf ("Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde)
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To: Getready
When I eat food with dextrose on the label I get a skin reaction, hives. Other corn products give me other allergic reactions. corn, corn meal, corn starch etc. give me a severe headache, maltodextrin makes my throat and chest tight. My allergist confirmed my corn allergy with skin testing. The headaches are several hours after eating, the dextrose and maltodextrin reactions are withing 10 minutes.
34 posted on 05/17/2011 6:20:59 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: TigersEye

Thanks, I am on Bactrim now & will try it!


35 posted on 05/17/2011 10:38:47 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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To: Jemian

“treatments we use in the jungle”
I remember seeing that work. I thought it was because the sugar created an environment that crenated (shrivelled) the offending organisms and shrunk (sucked the extra fluid out of) the swollen cells, thus increasing the circulation and immunomodulatory access to the area.
How does it REALLY work?


36 posted on 05/17/2011 10:59:28 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: exDemMom

“only sugars safe for a diabetic would be those we can’t digest at all.” Does sorbitol ring a bell? I dunno.


37 posted on 05/17/2011 11:01:46 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: exDemMom

When am I going to learn to read the whole thread before I stick my 2 cents in? Very well said!


38 posted on 05/17/2011 11:04:55 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Silentgypsy
How does it REALLY work?

I'm a musician and missionary. Ultimately, the answer is that God in His mercy grants it so. Exactly how He choses to work is not my specialty.

39 posted on 05/17/2011 11:51:43 AM PDT by Jemian (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA)
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To: Jemian

bttt


40 posted on 05/17/2011 11:53:24 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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