Michael1706
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Well I understood most of your post but my medical knowledge is more basic than yours so I can't really respond (plus english is my 3rd language) but only read with interest.
Yeah nothing against antibiotics if you get a bad cold (bacteria) and you are in a bad state. They are live savers but have been overused to the point you can get multi resistant bacterial cultures in hospitals.
Or if you use the same kind of antibiotic more than 1-2 times per year.
The best CURE for a cold to me has been tea made of fresh salvia leaves. The normal salvia of course :D
Salvia has by far the strongest antibacterial effect of all herbs. Other ones might have better anti inflammatory effects but for a cold especially bronchitis. I swear by Salvia
Yeah nothing against antibiotics if you get a bad cold (bacteria) and you are in a bad state. They are live savers but have been overused to the point you can get multi resistant bacterial cultures in hospitals.
Or if you use the same kind of antibiotic more than 1-2 times per year.
The best CURE for a cold to me has been tea made of fresh salvia leaves. The normal salvia of course :D
Salvia has by far the strongest antibacterial effect of all herbs. Other ones might have better anti inflammatory effects but for a cold especially bronchitis. I swear by Salvia
IMO 'preventing secondary infection' is something that only should be initiated as a matter of course in specifically vulnerable patient populations, such as those with immunological issues requiring prophylactic antibiotics. Otherwise, only used if someone actually develops a bacterial secondary infection, not just thrown at a cold or flu to make sure it doesn't happen.
That is precisely the sort of shitty medical practice that encourages the development of resistant strains. Just look at the likes of that new-delhi metalloproteinase resistance gene, there is almost nothing we can throw at that that will work.
And using them in animal feed, etc. is fucked up too.
Throwing antibiotics at anyone with a rhinoviral, coronavirus etc. infection just in the hope of it preventing a secondary bacterial infection is pointless and dangerous, unless in a specifically vulnerable, immunosuppressed patient, someone with CF, etc. At least for most such diseases. Perhaps another matter if someone is in intensive care in an isolation ward with a highly pathogenic variant like infection with the SARS or MERS coronaviruses, but generally, it just shouldn't be done.
Jesus man, I'm sorry you are dealing with that... Have you read anything on TNF-a and how it affects the immune system and how a lot of drugs interacts with it too? C'mon, you are really smart, I think you can figure out what makes your immune system so vulnerable. How is your Vitamin D levels if you did any blood tests lately?I worry about the amount of antibiotics I take, actually. I don't know the cause, at least not atm, but there seems to be something seriously wrong with my immune system, in that I have a serious vulnerability to bacterial infections, even a scratch, pinprick, minor cut can turn into a really nasty infection and very quickly.
I've ended up, after presumably sitting on something pointy, getting a splinter or something, with an infection that ate nearly down to my hip bone within days. Or a small (few mm in diameter) white phosphorus burn, aside from the obvious hurting like hell, and the toxic effects, as the WP poisoning resulted in a temporary although pretty severe near paralysis of the hand and arm attached to the wrist that took the WP burn, again, nasty infection. I'm lucky if I can go a few weeks without requiring a course of antibiotics, its almost killed me several times.