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    Good stuff, daftee. Shows you then you were right to ask for the antibiotics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    That's the ticket, you'll be back to your regular insomnia before you know it
    Lets him just sleep on that !

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    Quote Originally Posted by tapid View Post
    Lets him just sleep on that !
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Good stuff, daftee. Shows you then you were right to ask for the antibiotics!

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    Not so. The father of British Epidemiology - Archie Cochrane - was a young doctor in a Japanese POW camp. He observed that many conditions were self limiting and that "patients" typically recovered from infections without any medical treatment or drugs. He spent his life challenging the effectiveness, appropriateness, and safety of many established treatments and to advocate for the scientific testing of medical interventions. If the OP had a viral infection, it is likely that he would have started to recover after a week or so and antibiotics would have had no effect. His book "Efficiency and Effectiveness .." recounts his wartime experience and his advocacy for randomised control trials. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journ...92)93154-F.pdf

    Overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance is an existential threat to humanity. Unless new antibiotics are developed we will be back to the situation where one could die from a minor infection from a wound.

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    Overuse of antibiotics and what it will eventually mean for humankind is well documented, but Allen was getting worse - how bad does it have to get before you intervene? That kind of brinkmanship does not sit well with me, and besides we need Al for his inventive and amusing threads
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    And his eye was about to fall out. What would Audio Al be with a missing eye? Audo Al that's what. That would work better spoken than written
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
    Not so. The father of British Epidemiology - Archie Cochrane - was a young doctor in a Japanese POW camp. He observed that many conditions were self limiting and that "patients" typically recovered from infections without any medical treatment or drugs. He spent his life challenging the effectiveness, appropriateness, and safety of many established treatments and to advocate for the scientific testing of medical interventions. If the OP had a viral infection, it is likely that he would have started to recover after a week or so and antibiotics would have had no effect. His book "Efficiency and Effectiveness .." recounts his wartime experience and his advocacy for randomised control trials. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journ...92)93154-F.pdf

    Overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance is an existential threat to humanity. Unless new antibiotics are developed we will be back to the situation where one could die from a minor infection from a wound.
    I completely agree, Geoff. I'm all for 'self-healing' and/or natural/herbal remedies, rather than pumping yourself with drugs, *but* as Piggurs says Al was getting worse, and in this case antibiotics did the job. Therefore, for me, it's good to keep all your options open

    Marco.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I completely agree, Geoff. I'm all for 'self-healing' and/or natural/herbal remedies, rather than pumping yourself with drugs, *but* as Piggurs says Al was getting worse, and in this case antibiotics did the job. Therefore, for me, it's good to keep all your options open

    Marco.
    Antibiotics may have done the job but it is equally likely that the condition was self limiting and the timing of the recovery was coincidental. The public do not seem to have grasped the danger of antibiotic drug resistance which is responsible for 700,000 deaths annually worldwide with this figure projected to grow exponentially in coming decades. Doctors have even stopped prescribing antibiotics for many bacterial infections because of the dangers of drug resistance.

    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibi...al-resistance/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
    Antibiotics may have done the job but it is equally likely that the condition was self limiting and the timing of the recovery was coincidental. The public do not seem to have grasped the danger of antibiotic drug resistance which is responsible for 700,000 deaths annually worldwide with this figure projected to grow exponentially in coming decades. Doctors have even stopped prescribing antibiotics for many bacterial infections because of the dangers of drug resistance.



    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibi...al-resistance/

    I don’t believe in statistics without validation or source (or even then, I would like to see the compilation data) so if 700,000 deaths have been attributed to drug resistance what is the source? How many peoples lives have been saved by antibiotics annually?

    Statistics can be manipulated, by their very nature they depend on how they are collected and how the questions are phrased or loaded.

    Being a cynic there is a cost to providing antibiotics, good saving if not provided.

    There are many theories based on “facts” that become popular only to be disproved later.

    There are people who need daily antibiotics because they have compromised immune systems, so a broad brush approach to antibiotics can only be guidance and not considered absolute.

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    Strange that you don't hear any mention of Bacteriophage and Virophage research these days.

    They were once anticipated to be of huge ultimate benefit in tackling infectious deseases. Maybe there is work being done in this area, but I'm not aware of it. I know the Russians were very involved years ago.

    Effective phages could certainly compliment antibiotic treatment and possibly supersede it in some aspects.
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