Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli and UTIs in Vegetarians vs. Meat Eaters

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[@rezlogan4787]

My wife developed a UTI with a resistant infection that spread to her kidneys, then went septic. This followed a single meal of chicken tacos. She nearly died and kept getting released from the hospital. They would put her on an antibiotic that was working until she was stabilized, then release her with a DIFFERENT INEFFECTIVE ANTIBIOTIC, then the bacteria would increase again, they would readmit her, stabilize her on the effective antibiotic, then the cycle would repeat. It was enraging to know exactly how the food system and medical system almost killed my wife. How many hospital superbugs are made this way? Use effective antibiotics but don’t finish the full course, then prescribe a different less effective option after release? We needed to specifically ask for that effective option and threaten a sit in to finally get it prescribed for outpatient, and by then we were nearly expecting her to not make it. As I predicted, she made an immediate full recovery on the antibiotic that was actually working!

[@noahparslow295]

Horrific, glad your wife recovered

[@VeganLinked]

Yikes! Thanks for sharing ❤

[@treefellonya]

DO I understand that the hospital would giver her the antibiotic that worked IN the hospital, get her stabilized, then release her with a less effective antibiotic? That is absurd. What in the world was their reasoning for that? God blessed her by giving her a tough ole boy that loves his wife!

[@patriciarudisill1090]

Another excellent video Dr. Greger. Thanks for continuing to educate us. More and more reasons to avoid animal products every day.

[@AndrewPawley11]

At the time of posting this video, the page had 899K followers. Every day it seems it gets a thousand new subscribers! FANTASTIC! What a tribute to Michael Greger's dedication and the quality of his work.

[@louisepotts1806]

My bladder infections stopped when I stopped eating chicken.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Here's an interesting anecdotal data point, I've been a vegetarian for 52 years and in the last 47 of those years I've gotten food poisoning only once (on 1/18/2020). I didn't have any cases of intestinal flu during that time either. I don't know what got me in 2020, but I do know what I was eating, and it was something I eat regularly at the same restaurant. Sometimes your luck just runs out.

[@dulynoted2427]

I'd like to see Nurtitionfacts do a video on phages. I've seen something about how phages can kill super bugs when antibiotics lose their ability, until the bugs build a resistance to phages, while losing their resistance to antibiotics.

[@carollen5601]

WOW, I'm glad I'm vegan.

[@RealJonzuk]

must be nice to not have celiac disease and get sick from most foods i already weigh lik 108 im severely underweight and seeing these videos makes me want to kill myself because i need to be vegan but cant because every canned bean is cross contaminated i cant even eat grains at all because theyre all mostly cross contaminated like why would i even wanna be alive i cant eat bread nothing i sit here and rot eating plantains and cheese

[@chiyerano]

Yes, but even vegans need to be careful considering all that's going on with the food supply.

[@elphi9445]

Im glad im not vegan😂😂😂😂

[@ans7031]

@@elphi9445 Welcome to bacteria and who knows what else World :)))))

[@elphi9445]

@@ans7031 "Bacterias are very bad!!!"🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anerpos2055]

I have avoided eating at all for nearly 40 years, my body is going very strong.

[@terrencetrussell7625]

We presume you meant to type ‘eating meat at all’…

[@elphi9445]

The life of a vegan 😂😂😂

[@JoJo-sl7jt]

Considering the yt name, I hope so too ❤❤

[@cassidythompson5606]

This is mind-blowing information - thank you for sharing Dr. Greger. To those who consume decomposing flesh, chicken ova, and the mucus of cows and goats, and who ask, ‘but is being vegan healthy?’: think about your question. 🐥🌱

[@WheedlesDome]

Some of this is because some farmers use manure on crops and there are cases of runoff from other farms such as that of animal farms and other farmers inhumanely don't allow their produce pickers to use the restroom so they defecate where they can which is in the fields so they don't get caught taking a break so for most part the farmers or corporations are responsible for e coli outbreaks due to the fact that they don't allow for restroom breaks therefore causing unsanitary conditions because pickers don't get to wash their hands.

[@lukeweaver9287]

This is why Brian Clement wrote a book on poison poultry decades ago before anyone was talking about this!

[@sulj3373]

I have recently gone vegan due to 40 years of chronic embedded uti from multiple pathogens with antibiotic resistance.Hoping it helps.

[@Jmarshall-kj4hc]

Check out the Anthony William protocols too I’m sure that added to your new diet will eradicate this issue. Good luck 🙏🏻

[@yasinnaidoo949]

Did it help?

[@caba32503]

Does cooking it kill the ecoli?

[@paulcohen6727]

Yes, but you can still get the infections from the meat having contact with your counter or sink etc. before you cook it.

[@DominionMovementDotOrg]

there’s also chance that utis can be stis to/from meat eaters and/or vegetarians. another reason to avoid

[@edenlass9062]

Myself, my partner and my daughter, who was two at the time all got norovirus symptoms a few hours after eating what appeared to be a badly re-heated chicken pie at a weatherspoons pub. After the first bout of extreme vomiting and dhiorrea, nausea and dhiorrea re-occured for months on end until I clocked that it happened every time we ate chicken. We stopped eating it. My other half and daughter gradually started eating it again after a few months and are fine but I haven't eaten it for 15 years. I haven't missed it and I haven't had a stomach bug since (but then I haven't eaten in a dodgy cheap pub since then either). I'll never go vegan by choice but I do agree that the way the Americans treat their domestic livestock is criminal and insane and it's sad that such deprivation for a few extra bucks is a trend that has seeped out of that country in the last few decades.

[@markharris1223]

Are such infections the result of undercooked chicken?

[@themotivator2587]

In a previous video, Dr. Greger said cooking kills the bacteria, but the live bacteria tend to infect people and surfaces during the handling and preparation before it is cooked.

[@markharris1223]

@@themotivator2587 Thank you for your kind response!

[@WeCelebrateEatingPlants]

Thank you! 🥦❤

[@donbarile8916]

Don't forget to drink lots of water........ hard lesson.

[@paulcohen6727]

My doctor told me I have marginal UTI's and I need to drink more water to avoid them and to keep from affecting my spouse.

[@donbarile8916]

@@paulcohen6727 ya, he isn't lying. I don't have the spouse issue.... but still

[@JamesBond-pu6qf]

And the number one food that carries e coli? Spinach leaves

[@st.peterunner8758]

And you know why that is right?

[@JamesBond-pu6qf]

@@st.peterunner8758 of course it is mostly from beef pallets, but I'm just saying let's be objective- e coli can live on any food so vegans and vegetarians are not immune. Hell it can be in water. I've followed Greger a long time and I think he's brilliant; but he's a cherry picker through and through and leaves out a lot of objective facts and studies in almost every video

[@mowthpeece1]

From animal poop runoff.

[@chiyerano]

@@JamesBond-pu6qf It's kind of hard to go cherry picking when there is only one cherry to pick. Plus, he has said that flexitarians sometimes had better health outcomes than vegans and that wild game meat is the best meat to eat as evidenced by the results of a wild kangaroo diet he mentioned years ago. So, I don't really see what more you want here.

[@purpleworm4725]

The contamination in spinach comes from animals. E.coli doesn't reside on plant leaves. It inhabits intestines and ends up on plants from animal poop (farm runoffs, manure, animals pooping were they are not supposed to, etc). Btw from where are you getting information that spinach is number one?

[@purpleworm4725]

I wonder if correct handling of meat in the kitchen such as using separate cutting boards for meat and veg could help to reduce transmission of these E.coli strains. The ideal solution of course is going vegan, but its not possible for everyone (e.g. it might be difficult for elderly people), so it would be good to know what impact correct meat handling has.

[@lukeweaver9287]

There are plenty of elderly vegans. It's about desire and choices and being sick of getting sick. We started changing our diet in our 20's (30 yrs ago) because we were tired of getting sick 2-3 times/year. Eventually, we became mostly vegetarian and now are mostly vegan (a bit of Mediterranean diet mixed in here and there). We've healed from crippling joint pain, and potentially deadly diseases(both went away by ditching sugar, white flour products, most meats, and almost all dairy), stayed well from flu and colds, and are taking no Rx meds because we don't need them (most of our peers and friends, and family are on them). Most people we try to reason with just don't want to deal with the effort of lifestyle/diet change, but the few who do see profound health improvements. 🍋🍍🥑🫐🍓🥥🍆🥕🌽🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🍄

[@imaresurcher]

greger did a video on something like that, the research basically showed there is no truly "safe" way to handle it. the bugs persisted through cleaning etc.. and i guess u havent come across the mcdougals yet on the vegan youtube, theyre out there helping all kinds of old folks

[@purpleworm4725]

​@@lukeweaver9287 When writing the comment I meant my 90 year old grandma who gets UTIs and cannot eat beans because they cause her digestive issues 😅

[@purpleworm4725]

@@imaresurcher do you remember which exactly? I was trying to find it, but dr. Greger has quite a lot of videos on the topic

[@joesmith8879]

Yeah but did Colonel Sanders ever get a uti ?

[@RealJonzuk]

i have celiac disease and cant eat any gluten even small amounts of cross contamination make me sick so i basically have to eat cheese and meats when i hate it. this stuff just makes me want to stop eating completely i cant even get fresh fruits and veggies in nashua new hampshire all the shit here is half rotting, i want to be vegan but god this country is horrible corporations ruin everything

[@devnull6938]

What about the 80% not chicken?

[@Cat_Woods]

You mean the poultry industry would fail to make profit? Well, one can certainly see why the US government wouldn't choose to prioritize the life and health of its human citizens over those profits, right? Really pisses me off.

[@myfamiliar795]

gross

[@davidwood5655]

They could use radiation to kill off the E. coli. before shipping it. This was propose, but it freaked out to many people and the idea was dropped.

[@rickyenene2603]

avoid chicken and pork

[@MyShadowM]

I’m a vegetarian and I’m sorry but I get them all the time 😢 am young healthy

[@elphi9445]

That's why everything he says in this video is total BS for start to finish

[@myopinion1773]

I didn't get mine from chicken i got it from a cake... unfortunately

[@mowthpeece1]

It's horrible. I avoid chicken. But can we please remember that spinach and romaine lettuce have caused some of the worst recalls in history because of animal run off? Filth is the bigger problem, no?

[@chiyerano]

More reasons to get rid of animal agriculture and replace it with cellular agriculture and thoroughly wash produce.

[@DominionMovementDotOrg]

the Animal Industrial Complex is the problem. those animals should not be subjected by us

[@elphi9445]

@@DominionMovementDotOrg why they're very delicious and nutritious