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Vivbikerbabe
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Recently a question was asked about PID,I wrote about my own experience, and that at times I had been prescribed a 21 day course.
What I didn't make clear was that on my consultants advice I was given a low dosage antibiotic for an extended period,thus negating the need for an anti fungal (thrush) treatment.
The trend nowadays seems to be for a high dosage antibiotic for 5 days, followed by another antibiotic for 5, then to give a thrush treatment.
What do you feel?, does the lower dosage just boost your own immune system or does it kill the bacteria outright.
Another way that I have had this form of treatment has been within the last 3 years I had 6 months on a 50mgm antibiotic followed by 3 monthly syringing of my ears, for the first time since being 2 years old I do not have any ear problems and was discharged from treatment in september. I am 55 now.
I am concerned that increasing use of high dosages is actually creating more problems, often people are returning to their GP for further treatment which in the long term costs the NHS more, and there is also the need for other prescribed drugs. If we are going to keep an NHS then cost cutting in the way in which we use prescribed drugs has to be the answer surely, not the restriction of ward staff or the keeping of wages low, or as is to become "the way forward" multi GP practises set up in the same way as cottage hospitals, that were closed wholesale in the 60s and 70s.
I would welcome the input of any medical personnel although this is addressed to Dr Frank initially.
My query has been prompted by the knowledge that stronger and stronger antibiotics are being needed as bacteria are becoming more resistant to existing ones.
What I didn't make clear was that on my consultants advice I was given a low dosage antibiotic for an extended period,thus negating the need for an anti fungal (thrush) treatment.
The trend nowadays seems to be for a high dosage antibiotic for 5 days, followed by another antibiotic for 5, then to give a thrush treatment.
What do you feel?, does the lower dosage just boost your own immune system or does it kill the bacteria outright.
Another way that I have had this form of treatment has been within the last 3 years I had 6 months on a 50mgm antibiotic followed by 3 monthly syringing of my ears, for the first time since being 2 years old I do not have any ear problems and was discharged from treatment in september. I am 55 now.
I am concerned that increasing use of high dosages is actually creating more problems, often people are returning to their GP for further treatment which in the long term costs the NHS more, and there is also the need for other prescribed drugs. If we are going to keep an NHS then cost cutting in the way in which we use prescribed drugs has to be the answer surely, not the restriction of ward staff or the keeping of wages low, or as is to become "the way forward" multi GP practises set up in the same way as cottage hospitals, that were closed wholesale in the 60s and 70s.
I would welcome the input of any medical personnel although this is addressed to Dr Frank initially.
My query has been prompted by the knowledge that stronger and stronger antibiotics are being needed as bacteria are becoming more resistant to existing ones.