Over the past 10 days, he has already banned two freaks who tried to promote chloramphenicol in tablets.
Levomycetin is a powerful antibiotic. It was taken out of some caustic mold back in 1948. Then they learned to synthesize chloramphenicol chemically, and it became the first antibiotic to be shipped by railroad cars. Literally.
Levomycetin was very cheap and effective. The World Health Organization then advertised it in every way.
True, by the end of the 50s, the first victims of levomycetin appeared. The newborns suffered first. Levomycetin led to the so-called "gray child syndrome". Babies were poisoned and became really gray in color.
Then they found out that in about one person in 20,000, chloramphenicol kills the bone marrow. And it really kills. Once and for all. For several months, all blood cells in such people gradually age and die. And there will never be new ones. Sadness.
Now chloramphenicol is used mainly in the form of eye and ear drops or in the form of ointments. So he has little chance of being absorbed into the blood and causing harm.
And yet, one cannot do without chloramphenicol. Despite its toxicity, the antibiotic saves people with severe infections. A huge number of children who have had meningitis owe their lives to levomycetin.
It usually acts bacteriostatically. That is, it does not necessarily kill, but rather inhibits the growth of microbes. Thanks to this, it is possible to gently bring a seriously ill child back to life with less risk of shock from toxins that have fallen out of killed bacteria.
Now the World Health Organization remembered about chloramphenicol again, because people ate antibiotics and inflated drug resistance in microbes.
It turns out that the poisonous chloramphenicol lay quietly and waited in the wings. It is still poisonous, but if someone dies from a persistent infection, then at least chloramphenicol gives him another chance.
Levomycetin is powerful and penny, but forget about these pills. You really need Levomycetin only in intensive care and according to a very balanced decision of the doctor.
