Prescribing fluoroquinolones like they're candy. They're extraordinarily dangerous antibiotics. It was becoming known in the early 1990s the soft tissue, heart

Prescribing fluoroquinolones like they're candy. They're extraordinarily dangerous antibiotics. It was becoming known in the early 1990s the soft tissue, heart, retina, brain and nerve damage they can cause. Most European nations restricted their prescription considerably. The US did the opposite and commonly prescribed them. As of a decade ago the US was prescribing fluoroquinolones to roughly 10% of its adult population annually. The evil scumbags at Bayer tried to get enrofloxacin (Baytril; comparable to Cipro) approved to be put in water to be fed to poultry for mass consumption by the population. Cipro carries two blackbox warning labels. The FDA dragged their feet on dealing with it for more than a decade despite knowing how dangerous it is. And Cipro is the gentle one in the family. What we'll eventually prove is that Cipro harms everyone that takes it and should be used only as a last resort, not first resort.