Antibiotics have been heralded as the best and pretty much the ONLY way to combat anthrax exposure.  But do we want to just sit here and wait to be exposed to infectious diseases before we do something?  And when it's time to do something, do we WANT to take Cipro, the wide-spectrum antibiotic that has thousands of Americans flocking to their pharmacies?

If you take Cipro for 60 days, which is the recommended length of time for anthrax exposure and you're exposed to anthrax on the 61st day, experts tell us you'll have to take Cipro all-over-again. Taking Cipro before you're exposed to anthrax spores won't do any good.  And what about the dangers of the drug?

One woman in Boca Raton, Florida who took the drug for five days suffered a toxic reaction which has affected her ability to make bone marrow.  She woke up with dizziness, vomiting, fever, a pounding headache, and couldn't even get out of bed.

The Physician's Desk Reference reports that of 2,799 patients who took the drug, 16.5% had reactions deemed to be caused by or possibly caused by the drug itself.  Most common reactions were nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, headache, restlessness and rashes.  More serious but much rarer effects include hallucinations, depression, gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney failure, joint problems or heart attacks.  Some people have reported that after taking just ONE pill, they ended up in the emergency room.

Cipro is ciprofloxacin, a fluorinated quinolone.  We all know the dangers of ingestion of fluoride.  If you don't, please see my article called Do You Drink Living Water? which discusses some of these dangers.  Cipro is a member of a group of fluorinated antibiotics such as enoxacin, temafloxacin, grepafloxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin, tosufloxacin, fleroxacin, lomefloxacin, ofloxacin and others.  Not long ago, another fluorinated drug, BAYCOL, was removed from the market because of worldwide toxic side effects.  The adverse reactions of BAYCOL were almost identical to those of other fluorinated drugs which have also been pulled from the market in recent years.

Temafloxacin and grepafloxacin are two other fluoroquinolones that have also been removed from the market because they caused severe renal and liver damage (1).  Fatal liver failure associated with ciprofloxacin was reported in the Lancet in 1994 (2)(3).  Ciprofloxacin administration results in elevated serum fluoride levels (4). In a series of tests evaluating the safety of ciprofloxacin in children, serum fluoride levels increased after 12 hours in 79% of the children; on day 7 the 24-hour urinary fluoride excretion was higher in 88.9% of children observed (4).   Cipro has NOT been approved for use with children under 18 or with pregnant or lactating women.  Cipro transfers both through the placenta and through breastmilk.  It inhibits P450 1A2 which has been shown to be critical for neonatal survival by influencing the physiology of respiration in neonates. Mice lacking this cytochrome died shortly after birth and showed symptoms of severe respiratory distress (5).

In 1996 the FDA also issued directives to manufacturers to include warning statements on all fluoroquinoline product inserts to alert patients and caregivers to the potential for tendinitis and tendon rupture (6).

Studies have shown that taking Cipro can cause future bacterial infections to be untreatable (7)(8)(9).

And it is ironic that, while the FDA in August 2000 approved CIPRO as the first-line treatment against anthrax, a few months later (October 2000) it asked Bayer to remove BAYTRIL - its equivalent for animals.

Here is a pretty comprehensive list of some of the reported side effects of Cipro:

Abnormal dread or fear, achiness, bleeding in the stomach and/or intestines, blood clots in the
lungs, blurred vision, change in color perception, chills, confusion, constipation, convulsions,
coughing up blood, decreased vision, depression, difficulty in swallowing, dizziness, double
vision, drowsiness, eye pain, fainting, fever, flushing, gas, gout, flare up, hallucinations, hearing
loss, heart attack, hiccups, high blood pressure, hives, inability to fall or stay asleep, inability to
urinate, indigestion, intestinal inflammation, involuntary eye movement, irregular heartbeat,
irritability, itching, joint or back pain, joint stiffness, kidney failure, labored breathing, lack of
muscle coordination, lack or loss of appetite, large volumes of urine, light-headedness, loss of
sense of identity, loss of sense of smell, mouth sores, neck pain, nightmares, nosebleed,
pounding heartbeat, ringing in the ears, seizures, sensitivity to light, severe allergic reaction, skin
peeling, redness, speech difficulties, sluggishness, swelling of the face, neck, lips, eyes, or or
hands, swelling of the throat, tender, red bumps on skin, tingling sensation, tremors, unpleasant
taste, unusual darkening of the skin, vaginal inflammation, vague feeling of illness, weakness,
yellowed eyes and skin (10).  Basically, Cipro gives you fluoride poisoning.

Now, most of us would not want to take Cipro.  We have already learned about how everything you
 need to be healthy is found in nature - essential oils, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, colloidal silver,
and diet.  But if for some reason we DID have to take this drug, half the population WOULDN'T be able
to take it because they are either a pregnant woman, a lactating woman, or a child under 18.  That is huge percentage of the population that CANNOT take this drug.   We need to be relying now upon OURSELVES, not the medical community, to improve our immune systems, collect the natural substances we need in order to protect ourselves, and spread the word to others.

For a VERY thorough coverage of information on the dangers of the Anthrax Vaccine, see:
Anthrax Vaccine Homepage .

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References:

(1) Dr. Mercola - "Baycol - Another Fluoride Drug Bites the Dust" (PFPC News, August 18, 2001) Available online:  [http://www.mercola.com/2001/aug/18/fluoride_drugs.htm].

(2) Fuchs S, Simon Z, Brezis M - "Fatal hepatic failure associated with ciprofloxacin" Lancet 242:738-739 (1994)

(3) 150+ Related References : CIPRO - Liver.  Available online:
       [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=4&db=m&term=cipro&liver].

(4)  Pradhan KM, Arora NK, Jena A, Susheela AK, Bhan MK - "Safety of ciprofloxacin therapy in children: magnetic resonance images, body fluid levels of fluoride and linear growth" Acta Paediatr 84(5):555-60 (1995)

(5)  Pineau T, Fernandez-Salguero P, Lee SS, McPhail T, Ward JM, Gonzalez FJ - "Neonatal lethality associated with respiratory distress in mice lacking cytochrome P450 1A2" Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 92(11):5134-8 (1995)

(6)  FDA Medical Bulletin - Vol. 26, No.3 (October 1996)

(7) Coronado VG, Edwards JR, Culver DH, Gaynes RP - "Ciprofloxacin resistance among
      nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in the United States. National
      Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System" Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 16(2):71-5 (1995)

(8)  Smith KE, Besser JM, Hedberg CW, Leano FT, Bender JB, Wicklund JH, Johnson BP, Moore
       KA, Osterholm MT - "Quinolone-resistant Campylobacter jejuni infections in Minnesota, 1992-1998" NEngl
       J Med 340(20):1525-32(1999)

(9)  CDC Special Report : "Emerging Mechanisms of Fluoroquinolone Resistance" David C. Hooper Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

(10) Cipro Monograph http://www.healthsquare.com/pdrfg/pd/monos/cipro.htm