More Antibiotic Misuse?

email hidden said:

"Christophe Moreau (Crédit Agricole) will not start at this year's
Paris-Nice due to a heavy cold, forcing him to take antibiotics."

Do euros simply refer to most oral medication as a catch- all
'antibiotics' category?

Could be the other way, using 'cold' as a catch-all. What I just had
was a massive sinus infection that did require antibiotics
(interestingly, they asked that I stop using them shortly after the
symptoms cleared up and to bring back the rest of the prescription to
be kiln destroyed - and it was simple stuff). My first reaction was
that I had a really bad cold. I ignored it until it became one hell of
a bad 'cold'.

When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times, sinus infections are
really a pain.

Actually, now that I said that, I'm not exactly sure what a cold is.
Its always been one of those things that you figure is either the flu
or a cold and you try to pick the right answer. Or take the easy way
out and let first your mother and then your wife tell you.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Curtis L. Russell said:

When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times...

is this related to a personality trait?

:rollyeyes:

gym gravity said:

Quoted message said:

When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times...

is this related to a personality trait?

:rollyeyes:

Nah. Actually a fairly wide variety of different reasons. But you'd
think that by the fourth or fifth break, it would be harder to hit,
what with it being significantly closer to the rest of my face.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Curtis L. Russell said:

email hidden said:

"Christophe Moreau (Crédit Agricole) will not start at this year's
Paris-Nice due to a heavy cold, forcing him to take antibiotics."

Do euros simply refer to most oral medication as a catch- all
'antibiotics' category?

Could be the other way, using 'cold' as a catch-all. What I just had
was a massive sinus infection that did require antibiotics
(interestingly, they asked that I stop using them shortly after the
symptoms cleared up and to bring back the rest of the prescription to
be kiln destroyed - and it was simple stuff). My first reaction was
that I had a really bad cold. I ignored it until it became one hell of
a bad 'cold'.

When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times, sinus infections are
really a pain.

Actually, now that I said that, I'm not exactly sure what a cold is.
Its always been one of those things that you figure is either the flu
or a cold and you try to pick the right answer. Or take the easy way
out and let first your mother and then your wife tell you.

A cold is a virus, for which antibiotics do nothing. However, colds can form
the environ for the development of sinusitus (sp?) or bronchitis (bacteria).
Bacteria can sometimes be killed by antibiotics. Some bacteria is apparently
highly resistant.

There is no proven benefit for taking antibiotics in bronchitis. Ditto
for colds and 'flu. The evidence for benefit in middle ear infections
or Strep throat infections is marginal at best.

The number of resistant bacteria is frequently overcalled. Many labs
report that "X"% of bacteria "Y" that they have collected show
resistance. Often this figure is skewed by getting repeated samples
from one patient or else by inexact identification of bacteria. Also,
drug companies often have a hand in this to promote their newer, more
expensive drug. But if you look at the % of patients with a condition
such as pneumonia that have disease caused by a resistant bacterium,
the number is far, far smaller. Countries such as Denmark & the
Netherlands rarely use antibiotics stronger than penicillin,
amoxycillin or erythromycin and consequently they have extremely low
rates of resistant bacteria.

Back to the original post, it is remarkable how often we see this
amongst the pro-cyclists. Probably the doctors are just being weak and
giving antibiotics to feel like they are doing something - albeit with
little or no benefit, and possible risk!

"Curtis L. Russell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times, sinus infections are
really a pain.

Geez Curt, are you really THAT offensive?

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:32:27 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

When your nose has been broken about 8-10 times, sinus infections are
really a pain.

Geez Curt, are you really THAT offensive?

For the record:

This can only mean that you either have very short arms or the biceps of
Lafferty.