[decimon]

Ping

[Sacajaweau]

I believe the antibiotic is to lessen the chances of Pneumonia....which will kill you.

[ClearCase_guy]

Healthcare will be a great deal cheaper as soon as they issue enough studies showing that medical intervention is ineffective. They did this last year with a study on mammograms. Women under 50? [shrug] They don't need 'em.

This could be good science. But it sure feels like cost cutting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I used to be highly prone to sinus infections.

Since I started using the Walmart generic equivalent of PLAX (anti-plaque dental rinse) two things have happened.

(1) The dental hygienist says I have the cleanest teeth she has ever seen.

(2) I don't get sinus infections any more.

Just an observation.

[Doogle]

"unless you've been eating lime jello with bananas in it...go with the antibiotics

[gov_bean_ counter]

Only if you didn't eat guacamole the night before...

[edpc]

If your illness is bacterial in origin, the antibiotics may work. If it’s viral, you’re wasting your time.

[nerdwithagun]

I've had colds where I have coughed and sneezed up topic subject and these were just normal 1-2 day bugs. I go with fever severity personally when it comes to doctors and getting medicine.

[pepperdog]

Of course it's indicative of an infection, and of course you will either recover from it or die without antibiotics. However, the chances of the infection leading to something that will kill you are much higher if you don't take antibiotics. Almost every day I read something saying we don't need this med or that med. Usually it is followed by FDA removing a med from the market, a huge price increase in the med putting it out of reach for many poor people or a new reluctance by doctors to write a prescription for the med, because of FDA oversight would be my guess. I do believe they have decided the way out of our financial problems is to halve the population and they are going at it hammer and tongs.

[End Times Sentinel]

When I urinate, I see lots of healthy, bright red blood.

[poobear]

Guess this makes sense but I coughed clear phlegm for a couple of weeks and it turned into pneumonia a few years back. High fever, the whole nine yards. Lasted over a month. Felt like I was going to die. Didn’t go to the doctor until I was able to drive. He thought I was rather lucky. Haven’t been sick since.

Green, yellow or clear, go see a Doc if it persists!

[count-your-change]

This is hardly anything new, for the past 50 years we’ve been told antibiotics do nothing for colds and the associated productive or not coughs but too often doctors still will prescribe them as a “precautionary” treatment.

So now we have super bacteria that exhibit resistance to most antibiotics. Brilliant!

[listenhillary]

[Lazamataz]

[Rightly Biased]

Harry is that you?

[The Great RJ]

I am very wary of any drug or treatment studies coming out of the UK as they are likely sponsored by the government run health care system and may have the agenda of supporting NHS policies of denying care to reduce costs.

[Mountain Mary]

Is this thread for real? Try Web MD instead of ruining peoples breakfasts!

[Brellium]

Sinus infections, there was another recent study, stating that antibiotics did not have a significant impact on the treatment of sinus infections as the medication had trouble reaching the nasal cavities.

Discharge of cloudy or colored mucus is usually indicative of sinus infections and hence treating the symption with a medication that usually does not work on the illness not working is not a huge suprise to me.

[Check6]

No.

[G Larry]

ADVAIRE!
Steroid inhaler.

Learned long ago to go straight to Advair and bypass the useless antibiotics.

Just once a day for 2 weeks.

Don’t you love studies telling you what doesn’t work, without offering a solution?