Posted on 06/03/2013 7:35:31 PM PDT by neverdem
Quite prescribing antibiotics for every little sniffle.
A little dirt never hurt anybody. My kids, 5 and 1, have each been on antibiotics once and I hated having to use them. I don’t carry hand sanitized in m purse, diaper bag, or truck. When we get sick we ride it ot and increase our probiotics intake. These germaphobe parents that drench their kids in Purell are just asking for trouble.
add the fact antibiotics are otc in mexico and lots of people self medicate and probably way too oftenly with half measures at that
Good historical summary though. Thanks.
When we were growing up, our Dad stopped on his way home from work and bought “raw milk” straight from the farm. It was only when we moved to more urbanized areas that I first encountered pasteurized milk. And it was the first time I encountered kids with asthma and allergies. Correlation or simple coincidence? I don’t know, but am glad we grew up in our younger days where we did.
Yep, we use to play in the dirt, swim in rivers and drink water from rivers and ponds ... seldom got sick.
“I don’t carry hand sanitized in m purse, diaper bag, or truck.”
I’m with you. In fact, in my case, I rarely wash my hands, except when I’m doing real work (as opposed to metrosexual stuff). One problem though - I never get sick either.
And many take antibiotics for viral infections thus contributing to the problem.
Besides the infections, antibiotics kill off beneficial flora in our guts. The average American has had all of his intestinal flora killed off nearly 20 times by the time he is 30 (I actually read that last week in an article on Science Daily. The loss of intestinal flora allows the wrong flora to take over and inflict many maladies on us. Ulcerative colitis, various immune system problems, allergies, etc.
Not to mention that it’s difficult to find a soap (in a pump dispenser) WITHOUT antibacterial stuff in it...
There are many things that must be done but two things that *patients* in the West (and particularly in the US) is not to demand an antibiotic from a doctor when you have the sniffles,etc.Viruses aren’t affected one bit by antibiotics.Second,when you’re given an antibiotic take it *exactly* as directed unless told otherwise by a doctor.That means if you’ve taken the pills for a few days and feel better you *continue* taking them for the original time span.
We were ordering Clean Well from vitacost.com but now I order Mrs. Myers dish soap and make my own foam soap using the Clean Well foam dispensers. Both are free of triclosan. Two tablespoons of liquid soap added to 8 oz. hot water makes the perfect foam hand soap.
As some who avoids using antibiotics I recently had an incident that showed me what they can do.
A couple of months ago on a Saturday night, I had to drive myself to the VA across town for the emergency room, with a 103 fever that by midnight, I realized wasn’t going away, and plus the swelling was getting scary.
I refused to let them check me in for the night but they did put me on an intravenous antibiotic feed, I don’t recall ever experiencing that, and it was magic, within an hour I was a different man, I was really impressed by modern medicine, and the two weeks of antibiotics afterward really fixed up whatever it was, unless the short 103 fever of a week ago was related.
I hope they get a grip on all this abuse.
10,000; eh?
Golly - That's just Too Bad!!!
Get back to me when it exceeds a million a year...
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So, you just put 2 tbs of the liquid in with hot water, in a dispenser....and you can dispense for days on end?
Right now, my other has an infected cyst and she needs to get it lanced tomorrow. Her oncologist (she is fighting breast cancer) drained some of it but she needs a surgeon to get the rest out. The oncologist was going to prescribe penicillin but he prescribed sulfa instead to fight the infection. I think we might see some return to sulfa and alternate means to fight infection. BTW, he told us that sulfa is quite effective against MRSA, Mom does not have that but he used it for “jut in case” as well.
When I was about 7 we went camping in Colorado and we were drinking that clear cold water from the stream. Later we walked up the stream a little and there was a dead rotting deer in the stream.
I had to get rid of about 10 stinkbugs in my house today. This will continue for another month or so when they disappear inside till the Fall.
They are very annoying and get into anything.
LOL! And yet you survived.
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