Health & Wellness Best Posts in Thread: Antibiotics

The only way to improve or elevate the quality of services in all sectors —-hospitals, schools, malls, etc is for clients to express their dissatisfaction of the products or services and for the industries to shape up and take these criticisms as opportunities to raise their standards. But as it is, those in the service industries are not so open to feedback and take all criticisms negatively.

 

after seven years here, it is my observation that filipinos do not spank their children either. could that be the problem?

 

See my posting re defamation - you even criticise a doctor, let alone file a case, and you are the one being sued. Professionals given too much protection.

 

It is not just cultural - if you criticise a person, you can be sued for defamation - even if what you said was TRUE! I actually read in the national press recently of such a case.

Also, of course, many Filipinos cannot do anything other than seek 'traditional medicine' (even if it is not) because of costs.

 

Yeah, “advised” if that suits you

 

Quite often a doctor will have the cause of infection checked before diagnosis and so knows which antibiotic to use. This happened to me, as related in another recent post, after a 6 month UTI I ignored - the outcome was that I had a very rare form of E.coli and needed a specific antibiotic (the only one available to kill that bacterium).

The methodology is quite simple and should not be that costly (although I have no actual figures) - it involves putting the patient's sample onto agar within a Petri dish, dropping on a paper with radiating discs, each impregnated with a different antibiotic and seeing if a clear ring forms around any antibiotic(s). The clear ring shows that the bacteria is being killed, or prevented from growing, by that antibiotic. That is how it used to be done - but nowadays I don't know if they have a faster and cheaper method. They would also identify the bacterium - that used to be done by gram staining and microscopic examination but I guess it is more sophisticated now.

The technique has links with the discovery of the first antibiotic (penicillin) as a Petri dish of bacteria got contaminated with a fungus and clear rings formed around the fungus where it had killed off the bacteria (or stopped their growth). That fungus was Penicillium rubens. Well before that discovery, some people used fungi to treat wounds - so they knew it worked, but not why.

I suspect many know that story, so apologies for boring you - it has to be better than reading misleading information, but not as rewarding as reading @Rye83 post! Brilliant.

 

I hope the MANY caring and competent doctors, who save so many lives, don't read this nonsense.

 

I am, of course, delighted that you (and your close friends) never lost a loved one, as described above, but you know that many parents do lose children - don't you???