Research and case studies have found a dangerous relationship between diabetes and antibiotics. In a statistical study conducted in spring of 1999 by JoAnn Deasy, PS-C, MPH, on the risk of infection among diabetics, Deasy found that the risk ratio in diabetics was 1.21 versus non-diabetics with 46% of diabetics needing at least one hospitalization or doctors visit for infection compared with 38% amongst non-diabetics. The increased rate of infection and susceptibility to complications results in the frequent prescription of antibiotics to diabetics. While antibiotic therapy has proven results, there are some that put diabetics at severe risk.

Diabetes and Antibiotics for Respiratory Infection

Diabetics are four times as likely to die from a respiratory infection than the general population. In his case study, Muhammad Mamdani of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences created a database of patients over 65 who visited hospitals after they had hypo- …