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January 27, 2004
The Strep
It turns out my weekend sickness was not, in fact, the bird flu, but rather strep throat. It's like swallowing razor blades. As a result, I've missed the last two days of work, and have been taking plenty of antibiotics. Now I know most of you are intelligent people, but I feel the need to point out two very important things about antibiotic use:
- If the prescription tells you to keep taking all the antibiotics until the bottle is empty, take them all. I don't care if you feel better, keep eating those horse pills.
- This relates back to point #1: don't save antibiotics for the next time you or a loved one is sick.
So, what am I a doctor now or something? What do I care if you abuse your medication? Because antibiotic-resistant germs affect everybody. I don't want ten years from now to get the strep and not have any medicinal recourse because strep has become immune to antibiotics because of misuse.
Ok, I'm done ranting. Back to bed.
Comments
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Posted by: ian at January 27, 2004 5:57 PM
Maybe if you weren't such a baby in the first place you wouldn't need those horse pills that contribute to the decline of our health care system. Way to go, Chris...
Posted by: mark at January 28, 2004 4:53 AM
I had the worst throat infection myself, back about a month or so. Worse than swallowing razor blades, though I'm not sure what could be worse. Swallowing ground glass and metal shavings? Salted glass and metal shavings? With ketchup? I was stubborn and tried to let my body fight it off. Mistake. After I hadn't eaten for three days and couldn't even swallow water or my own saliva anymore, I strolled (no hurry) on down to the doctorb and got the antibiotics I needed. I finished them all like a good boy but I think I could have used more. I'm an antibiotics junkie now. I can't get enough. The bigger the pill the better. It makes sense to give people with terrible sore throats reeely reeely big pills that even people without sore throats would have trouble sleeving. Why not make them smaller and take more thoughout the day? Man, doctorb's aren't so swift, huh?
Posted by: Rew at January 28, 2004 6:23 AM