Something’s in my craw…

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I've thought about that. Like, you're about to shake someone's hand and you sneeze, you look at them like "Hehe" and you think "Should I shake his hand or not? Will he find it disgusting?" An then you have to decide if you'll shake his hand..

I also find it disgusting when someone is eating and you kiss them or they kiss you. I don't know.. It's like you're sharing food. Kinda.

P.S: I will now post with normal font instead of the little one since you guys don't like it. :grumpy:
 
Keef
Last night i popped a few antibiotics to give my immune system a 150 shot of NOS, and I do believe my 2 day cold is on its way out very quickly.
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Antibiotics don’t do anything to viruses.
 
Keef
Last night i popped a few antibiotics to give my immune system a 150 shot of NOS, and I do believe my 2 day cold is on its way out very quickly.
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Wait, where did you get these antibiotics? You make it sound like you dropped off at the local grocery and picked them up like Tylenol.
 
Amoxicillin. I took them a few months ago for my acne until I forced my dermatologist to prescribe me Acutane. So I know I'm safe to take to take it, even though taking them probably didn't do anything and might not have been the best idea. But at least they made me think that my sore throat went away over night.
 
Keef
Amoxicillin. I took them a few months ago for my acne until I forced my dermatologist to prescribe me Acutane. So I know I'm safe to take to take it, even though taking them probably didn't do anything and might not have been the best idea. But at least they made me think that my sore throat went away over night.
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I didn't even realize they prescribed antibiotics for acne. That seems to be treating the symptom but not the cause.

Acutane on the other hand: I know from experience that will work.

Anyway, at best an antibiotic can prevent further bacterial infection from starting, but if you did have a cold or even just a sore throat due to sinus related issues it did not help stop it. I heard a report on the radio yesterday saying that the best thing is a sinus rinse and letting your body do its own thing.



I wonder if some of the more micro biology experts can answer a question I have: In cases such as sinus activity caused by weather or allergies can taking an antibiotic help kill off any bacterial infection that is trying to take advantage of the situation, allowing your body to focus more energy on healing the non-infection issues? I ask because I have been fighting a sinus/cough thing for three weeks now with no signs of infection and my wife keeps telling me to go to the doctor, but I refuse because I figure she will either give me a useless prescription or just tell me to keep doing what I am doing. If there could be some benefit to a prescription then I may go.
 
Keef
Last night i popped a few antibiotics to give my immune system a 150 shot of NOS, and I do believe my 2 day cold is on its way out very quickly.
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Sage
Antibiotics don’t do anything to viruses.
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Quite so (except in a couple of rare cases where a specific antibiotic can affect a specific viral strain).

The next question is where you got them from.

A further question is why you'd do this. Antibiotics kill bacteria. You have around 21 species of bacteria living in you symbiotically - like in your digestive tract. Antibiotics kill those bacteria too. Result: you make yourself ill. In a poopy way.

A final comment is that you may have just screwed up bad. The reason antibiotics are prescribed for a set dose over a set time is to kill everything. Take a couple and the serum levels don't remain high enough to kill everything, allowing some bacteria to survive (those with a genetically higher resistance) and breed. Then you have a very large number of bacteria which are resistant to the antibiotic in question...
 
The hell with that, Sage. I sneeze into my hands and wipe them on my anti-bacterial thighs.


(actually, that's a good idea you have there.)
 

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