[TruthNtegrity]

I was just about to clarify what sepsis is - but you did it, thanks.

I almost died from pneumonia-based sepsis in 1982. Thank God the fifth intravenous antibiotic "worked" and saved my life. I remember lying with my head off the bed so my lungs could drain into the bucket on the floor - the respiratory folks had given up on me, and I'd been given Last Rites.

The Doctor's insistence on giving me different and stronger doses of antibiotics is what saved my life. However, for the next 7 years, I fought a systemic yeast infection that could have been prevented with a prophilactic course of nystatin, or that strange milk, Acidolphilus (sp?), even yogurt.

I also have a friend who makes me crazy over antibiotics. This person recently had an bad cold on the day of a Doctor's appointment and told me they were going to get something for it. I got on my soapbox about the stupidity of requesting an antibiotic for a damn cold. If they had a sinus infection or earaches, or some ancillary infection, then maybe "yes" on the antibiotics. But not to ask for an antibiotic because they had a cold, for cripes sake.

I've watched this same person get 5 different, and the most recently released, antibiotics, in a year, for whatever they show up in the Doctor's office complaining about.

I don't know who I'm angrier at - the former friend for perpetually requesting the antibiotics, or the dang Doctor for giving them!?! I guess the answer is, both of them.

[Polybius]

I've watched this same person get 5 different, and the most recently released, antibiotics, in a year, for whatever they show up in the Doctor's office complaining about. I don't know who I'm angrier at - the former friend for perpetually requesting the antibiotics, or the dang Doctor for giving them!?! I guess the answer is, both of them.

That is indeed a big problem.

Such people are developing future bioweapons in their own bodies that can be unleashed on society. The doctors that enable such behavior may as well be working at a WMD lab.

[.38sw]

Part of the problem is antibiotic overuse that has created drug-resistant germs.

My husband is a physician. He tells me about mothers bringing in their children with nothing more than a cold, and demanding antibiotics. He won't prescribe them for a cold, explaining to the mothers that an antibiotic is ineffective on a viral infection. No matter. They demand antibiotics. He won't prescribe them, they threaten to go somewhere else, he tells them that that is their right.

I get sinus infections periodically, but try not to go on antibiotics unless I really need to. I've kicked 2 out of the last three infections just using a salt water rinse and flonase. If I'm on antibiotics, I try to eat yogurt with active cultures daily.

[cherry]

I hear you.....I know people that simply have to call the doc and get an antibiotic ordered over the phone...it's not coincidental that most of these folks have Medicare with an excellant suppliment so there is no cost to them....