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Myths about Common Disease
Coughs, colds and flu. These symptoms occur due
to various conditions and does not mean you have an infection that
need antibiotic. Viral infections often produce very high
temperature and does not mean to say you are very ill. Most
bacterial infections (pneumonia, meningitis, appendicitis) produce
mild temperature because they release a toxin which will make you
loose heat from your body.
Viral infection does not
go away from your body in 1-2 days. They usually present in the body
for a week if not more. Some viral infections make your body very
weak (ME, Glandular fever) and this can last for a long time.
Prescribing an antibiotic
for all these symptoms is making MRSA & other antibiotic resistant
bacteria stronger. Their cell wall is said to become more thicker
and no drug can penetrate to kill them. This is likely to make
things worse for scientists to develop new methods to stop them
spreading and killing health adults. Partially treated bacterial
infection can be more serious than the ones which you don't treat.
Once these bacteria colonizes in your body, you will not be able to
get rid of them. They pose danger to you and the loved ones who are
in contact with you.
We know 48% of doctors
and nurses managing MRSA infected patients are colonized with the
same bacteria. Washing hands and cleaning nose will reduce this
number to 23% and they can never eradicate this colony.
I am publishing these
information in my website because the medical journals,
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Tonsillitis
Most common symptom which
parents complaint and patients suffer from.
Virus
infections, screaming loud (crying babies), excessive coughing, and
any throat irritation (using lozenges) can make the throat go red. Redness in your throat is
due to excess blood circulation and can be due to irritation. If you have dry throat in the morning and have been snoring
all night because your nostrils were blocked at night, please check
out your throat, it is likely to be red and sore. Diagnosis of
Streptococcus throat infection can only be made after blood test (ASOT)
or throat swab cultures. Spots on tonsils does not
mean to say the infection is bacterial, infectious mononucleosis
(glandular fever) and other viral infections produces white patches
on tonsils.
Streptococcal infection (Bacteria) produce mild increase in
temperature and the patients is often toxic (facial flushing,
feeling faint and tired). They also feel hot and cold (chills &
rigours) because the body thermostat control (hypothalamus) will
increase blood circulation in the skin to help reduce body
temperature and so produce sweating) tonsils and neck glands are
painful and large (not due to infection but because the white blood
cells are fighting the invading bacteria). Most patients with
bacterial infections die due to shock and not due to very high
temperature
Streptococcus throat infection was a major problem before penicillin
was invented in 1940s. The doctors relayed on clinical assessment to
diagnose because toxins, meningitis, or rheumatic fevers could
result in death. As a child, my doctors used iodine swab on my
throat to killed germs living on the tonsils. Since antibiotic
became available, the problem of long term complications was not a
major threat.
This bacteria can produce what was known as "Rheumatic
fever" due to the toxins resulting in damaged heart valve
(mitral stenosis) and also meningitis, nephritis and arthritis. Unfortunately
the bacteria will release toxins before you recognise the symptoms.
Giving antibiotic to patients does not prevent the damage occurring
in all, because some have developed signs later in life and are on
long term antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent relapse.
Unfortunately due to this fear and litigations
and huge compensation payments awarded by courts, doctors started
prescribing antibiotics for every patients presenting with sore
throat. If a doctor refuses to prescribe antibiotics, the patients
will seek help from another doctor and start taking antibiotics. The
dose prescribed is often low (penicillin 250 mg) and the patients do
not complete the course. This abuse of antibiotic has now resulted
in resistant strains and is likely to threaten our existence.
In future, please think twice before you waste
your money and abuse antibiotics. We must not push our luck any
further. I think it’s already too late even if God appears on this
earth to save this planet, He will be confused on how to fight this
bacteria.
Most children do have
swollen tonsils because tonsills are often working hard and filled with
white cells learning to fight infections. Babies do not know how to
breath through their mouth, the sleep with their mouth open allowing
bacteria's and viruses to enter. Babies & infants introduce objects
into their mouth when they are cutting teeth of simply when they are
shy. Some children suck their thumb or dummy until they are 2-3
years old. Millions of bugs live in their hand and will rapidly
enter mouth, this is the reason the tonsils have to work harder and
so swell up and look as if the throat is going to close.
Some parents insist on
getting tonsils taken out but they do not know that the surgeons can
only pluck out the top bit but not the roots. This is a very
important organ to prevent infection entering your voice box and
lungs and so not entirely a good idea to take them out.
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Flu
Often doctors give Amoxil
(Amoxicillin, Penicillin, Cephalosporin) for such infections. The
dose given is often low. This results in partially treating the
infections resulting in muted antibiotic resistant bacterial
infection.
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Cancer
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Lumps
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Rash
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Ear Pain
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Antibiotics
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Final Note
Dr Kadiyali
M Srivatsa
Please
email me a note with your comments (Good or Bad)
Please note this information is intended to help you understand
your symptoms and not my advice for your illness. We will and not
accept any liability for any injury caused by this information. Our
mission is to educate and help you and not published with commercial
interest. Infect this information I have provided is likely to
reduce our income and probably hated by my medical colleagues.
"Truth must be shared, no matter how
uncomfortable it may be, because we accept lies with comfort and
believe them"
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