Changing Use of Antibiotics in Community-Based Outpatient Practice. I remember when Cipro came out several years ago. This stuff was designed to save the lives of people who were on the edge of death from systemic infections. I remember one of my instructors touting that Cipro could sterilize your sputum. Now I see patients in […]
You’re hacking up a lung and coworkers won’t come within 5 feet of you without a mask and a pump sprayer of Lysol. Worse, you’re now coughing up sputum that has become the color of something out of the Exorcist. It’s no longer time to mess around-you need antibiotics. Stat. I can’t tell you how many […]
Antibiotics for E. coli infection increase risk of blood disorder If this is a risk with antibiotics, use of probiotics may be a much safer, and possibly just as effective treatment. Read entire article here
Are antibiotics effective for adults and children with acute sore throats? This is a Cochrane Collaboration review of the effectiveness of antibiotics for sore throat. The overall results did show that antibiotics were effective at reducing the symptoms by day 3. Interestingly, 22 studies were reviewed, and only four were recent; the majority were done […]
Glycemic and insulinemic responses to regular and fermented milk Gee, yet another reason to avoid dairy? Do we really need another? The high allergenicity, presence of hormones and pesticides and antibiotics are not enough? Now we find that milk has a glycemic index close to that of white bread. When the milk is fermented, such […]
