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Study: Doctors overprescribe antibiotics for respiratory infections
University of Chicago Press Journals ^ | September 22, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 09/22/2010 5:26:39 PM PDT by decimon

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Excellent suggestions.


61 posted on 09/23/2010 3:24:23 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Ditter

Well, it looks like my daughter has her first cold of the season. She started coughing last night. We’ll see if it turns into anything, or if she can fight it off. I’ll probably know in about a week.

I was hoping she would go another month before getting sick.


62 posted on 09/23/2010 1:14:17 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom
Oh dear, I am sorry. I hope you can convince her to use the Neti Pot and keep from getting the bacterial infection that will surely follow the viral. When I catch a cold I use it 3 or 4 times a day and it really clears it out. How old is your daughter?
63 posted on 09/23/2010 3:47:48 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

She’s 13. She never had asthma very bad until last year. Her twin sister always had it bad. Last year, they switched places.

We’ll see what happens this year.


64 posted on 09/23/2010 7:59:55 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: 1010RD

Those ear cleaning drops kits costs beaucoups bucks, and the active ingredient is often pretty close to hydrogen peroxide. :’)


65 posted on 09/23/2010 8:27:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: luckystarmom

I had asthma pretty bad until I was 18 years old when I had my worst and last asthma attack, the only one that ever required a visit to the ER. It is very scary you think you are not going to be able to take another breath. My allergies didn’t go away at 18, they just changed from asthma to other problems. Best of luck with your girls. Just remember they can be allergic to anything, it is difficult to sort it out some times.


66 posted on 09/23/2010 8:49:13 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: SunkenCiv

A bottle of H2O2 costs me 50-60 cents and lasts nearly a year. It is a “miracle” drug to me. Not getting sick for years is worth way more than what I pay a bottle.

I mean I am down to tiny fractions of a cent per day for good health! You cannot imagine how much that pleases a miser like myself. ;-]


67 posted on 09/23/2010 8:51:31 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Ditter

The Squeeze bottle available with the saline packets premeasured etc. at Walgreens are better, imho, than the netti. Much more functional and comfortable for me to use. It’s not fun but it’s workable. And with lifelong sinus infection challenges, it’s been a welcome and effective solution.


68 posted on 09/24/2010 5:25:49 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: 1010RD; SunkenCiv

There’s a bunch of stuff from several different MD’s on the net about hydrogen peroxide food grade preventing, even curing all manner of stuff, even cancer.

Y’all are essentially agreeing with those contentions?

Where does one get such a product?


69 posted on 09/24/2010 5:28:15 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: SunkenCiv

Thx.


70 posted on 09/24/2010 5:31:15 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: jimfree

IIRC, Asthma is something that Henry Wright

http://www.beinhealth.com

has had great success in facilitating the total and permanent healing thereof.


71 posted on 09/24/2010 5:37:29 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: RegulatorCountry; Joya

Excellent, imho:


I can’t pretend to give advice, but the first thing I do when I feel some sort of bug coming on is to take a decent can of chicken soup, crush up several cloves of garlic into it, along with two bay leaves, a bunch of oregano and either a lot of fresh cracked black pepper or hot sauce. Bring it to a boil and then let it simmer for a good while with the lid on, then eat it all. As I mentioned upthread, quite a few of the typical kitchen spices have antimicrobial properties, you don’t need to limit yourself to just these if your taste in food varies.

Go get a probiotic, some Omega 3 and make a point of eating right. Find a way to let go of the stress you’re carrying around. Simple visualization, whenever and wherever you have the opportunity, lay back, close your eyes, concentrate on your breathing. In and out, fully, slowly. Goal is relaxation. Visualize relaxing every muscle in your body, you’ll have a surprising number of very tense ones.

While you’re doing this, in your mind, see a happy place, a good place where you feel at ease and at peace. Go there in your mind, all the while breathing easily and deeply, with muscles relaxed. This will help a great deal until you are through your seasonal period of overwork and can get some genuine rest.

Prayer is very effective in doing the same thing, if you’re the praying sort. Lift your burden up to God. Ask for His help in humble sincerity.

That’s as close to advice as I have to give.


72 posted on 09/24/2010 5:41:31 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: Quix
I tried the squeeze bottle and the premeasured packets. The squeeze bottle didn't work nearly as effectively as the Neti Pot and something in the packets was too harsh for my sinus membranes, it left me burning and hurting. My husband uses that method with no problem. Which ever works for you is a real help to prevent and even cure without antibiotics, sinus infections (which can hang on for months after a cold or flu) .
73 posted on 09/24/2010 5:48:17 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Fair enough.

Has been a big help and change, for me. Need to stock up a bit more. Have a year’s supply, I think.


74 posted on 09/24/2010 6:08:19 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: Quix

I have been washing out my sinuses regularly for the last 4 to 5 years. During that time I have not had to take antibiotics for a sinus infection. I have for other reason but not for that.

The rest of you who have trouble with your sinuses should really look into this.


75 posted on 09/24/2010 6:19:54 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: bigheadfred
I had the same thing every year too, sometimes twice a year. I always had to take antibiotics to get rid of it. If your like me, it won't go away on it's own. It's not worth ending up in the hospital.
Go to one of those walk in clinics. They usually will charge half price for people without insurance.

However, I did find something that helped me from getting sick in the future. I started taking high amounts of Ester C. (2500 per day).
This has really worked for me. I have not been sick in two years.

76 posted on 09/24/2010 6:30:59 AM PDT by kara37
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To: Ditter

DITTO.

And I think the D3 vitamin has been a huge boost along with the Curcumin, as well.


77 posted on 09/24/2010 7:01:56 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: kara37

Thanks kara. I’m ready to try everything. I’m completely worn down.


78 posted on 09/24/2010 4:02:27 PM PDT by bigheadfred (We built a tower of stone. With our flesh and bone. Just to see him fly .)
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To: Quix

Hydrogen Peroxide might kill cancer cells if it could be fed directly to them, might work pretty well too; but the problem is in the delivery system, as it is for any kind of chemotherapy. Food-grade H2O2 is 35% or so, and is used for disinfecting and bleaching stuff. Works great for that, not least because it’s water soluble and can be rinsed away, and breaks down in the sewer system. At that concentration, it would also disinfect the sewer pipes, and clear out most clogs.

Anything higher than 35% is a bit of a fire risk, since H202 is a monopropellant. Those jetpacks demoed at the county fair and wherever use 100% H202, with a catalyst (I forget what metal), and nothing else. I wouldn’t want to have the 35% around either, unless I were going to use it right away, because, well, it could go up, and the result would not be pretty. Well, in a sense it would be pretty, but the damage wouldn’t be. ;’)


79 posted on 09/24/2010 5:10:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think the proponents advocate 8 drops a day in a glass of water or some such.


80 posted on 09/24/2010 5:29:42 PM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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