Re: Viruses- the human kind!

That's one of my pet peeves too Maddy - rant away!

;-)

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From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:39:50 -0500

>Agree completely, Maddy! Unfortunately, some MDs/DOs cater to patient's 
>expectations of a prescription for everything rather than taking the 
>time to explain what you just did. The other contributor to antibiotic 
>resistance is stopping appropriately prescribed antibiotics too soon - 
>you feel better, so you fail to complete the full course of treatment.
>Cathy
>
>> Antibiotics for a virus? I cannot believe there are still doctors 
>> prescribing
>> this way. The funny thing is, people will recover from viruses in 
>> spite of
>> (not because of) taking antibiotics, and then when they start to get 
>> better,
>> they think the drugs were curing them. Overuse of antibiotics is one 
>> of the
>> reasons for the development of so many antibiotic resistant strains of
>> bacteria,
>> which are becoming more and more difficult to treat when they no longer
>> respond
>> to the drugs that used to wipe them out. In any case, a good friend of 
>> mine in
>> Colorado told me that a few weeks ago he was very sick what he thought 
>> was a
>> flu type thing, and his doctor did a blood draw to see what was going 
>> on.
>> Turned out to be West Nile Virus- no antibiotics prescribed, and he 
>> recovered
>> after several weeks of debilitating illness. There was even an article 
>> in the
>> Journal of the American Medical Association recently, stating that 
>> even in
>> most
>> cases of bronchitis, antibiotics are not only useless, but can actually
>> prolong
>> recovery time.
>>
>> OK, climbing down off my soap box. I am sorry for my rant, and I hope I
>> haven't offended anyone, but the irresponsible use of antibiotics is 
>> one of my
>> pet
>> peeves. I do hope all of you suffering from whatever viruses are going 
>> around
>> make a speedy recovery.
>>
>> Maddy Mason
>> Hudson Valley, NY  zone 5/6
>>
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Kemp TX/zone 8A



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