antibiotics??

[00rawr00]

hmm, i seem to be in a bit of a dilemma. i have strep throat, i am supposed to take antibiotics. i don't want to take them though because, well i actually am not entirely sure i just don't feel comfortable with medicine in general, especially antibiotics. anyhow, i feel fine now and my throat doesn't hurt much but apparently if i don't take them the infection can spread and cause all kinds of nasty things. any opinions on medications/antibiotics?

[The Vej]

That's a tough one. Does anybody know what antibiotics actually do? This is interesting. So I'll try to keep it active.

[00rawr00]

well i know what they do, they kill bacteria, but i like my bacteria!! its good to me! except for my strep throat bacteria, i could do without those, but they are going away, i told my mom that clearly my superior immune system has conquered strep throat without antibiotics but she just mumbled off about how im going to drop dead one day and not to expect any sympathy from her.

[The Vej]

Yeah but what if it kills off all of the bacteria then your bacteria grows back and then you eliminated your cold faster. There is always a compromise but I wonder how large of a problem anti-biotics create from trying to help. I know nothing can improve on the natural way but it may just get the job done faster. I don't know. It could shorten your life by 1 year for every pill you take.

[RevKale]

Anti biotics work in a crisis situation, but they might give you a not fun candida infection.

Find an awseome pro biotic to take regardless if you decide to use anti biotics or not. to repopulate friendly flora. I like soil based micro organisms.

I almost died of pnemonia in the winter of 99 and I believe the anti biotics saved me, however I'll never take them ever again. I got a yeast infection (yes guys can get them) that was really really bad afterwards.

If I ever was faced with that situation again I'd use colloidal silver and frequency medicine, in addition to live foods. I don't think I'll ever need them again though

[00rawr00]

yah my biology teacher convinced me to take them (something about not taking modern medicine for granted) but i'll definately get a pro-biotic, thanks so much!

[The Vej]

Really? My Biology teacher would have been so against it, something about weakening our species and creating new strands of that sickness. He ??s against that but pops like 12 Ibuprofen a day. He ??s a weird dude.

[00rawr00]

yah i tried arguing with my mom about not taking them and said that if we stopped using medicine we would all just eventually become immune to everything.. she wouldn't let me die for my cause though, oh well!! biology teachers are weird, i love mine though, he's the greatest person ever, probably the only person who's really passionate about biology! you should hear him talk about endosymbiosis : D

[alsrnbsn]

I have taken care of many patients that refused to take antibiotics for strep throat. Several years later they were dying of heart failure due to the Strep bacteria migrating into the heart muscle. Also, my paternal grandmother died of glomerulonephritis because she refused to take antibiotics for her bacterial infection years earlier.
Yes, you can get a yeast infection after taking antibiotics, but it doesn't always happen.
I hope that whatever you decide it works for you and that your strep throat heals.

[KombuchaCHIC]

I would take the anitbiotics. You can not be sure if you are still infected, even if you are feeling better. I wouldn't want to pass that on to anyone else. And alsrnbsn has a good point about the virus spreading. I would take them until they are gone and then take probiotics after to help even everything out. BTW, kombucha is a great source of probiotics! You might be able to find some in a natural food store. Most natural food stores have probiotic supplements as well.

Good luck!

-Heather