SarathW wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:14 pm
I have very strong lungs as I am not a smoker.
So last time when I got a viral infection I did not take antibiotics.
Instead, I used Nettipot with salt and diluted hydrogen peroxide.
Well, you shouldn’t take antibiotics if you have a viral infection. If you do develop a bacterial infection as well, it’s for us in the lab to test and see which antibiotics will work against that particular organism. If you take an antibiotic when you don’t need it, or if you have an infection but that particular antibiotic won’t work on the particular organism that’s causing the infection, then you can just make things worse for yourself. You can disrupt your normal flora of bacteria, facilitating infection by further opportunistic pathogens who are now colonising the space left by the knocked out healthy bacteria and you can spread resistant strains of bacteria both within yourself and to the community at large. Taking antibiotics when not needed is increasing resistance amongst various organisms, as it’s increasing environmental pressure on them to adapt. The more resistant strains there are, the less effective antibiotics become over time and so more and more people will have infections that can never be treated. Some people now have permanent UTIs, or permanent STIs, because of resistance.
Someone mentioned above taking iodine. I haven’t read fully into it, but given its broad spectrum I imagine that taking too much iodine will disrupt the normal flora environment in your body leading to various health problems that I’ve mentioned.
Simply put if you have a viral infection antibiotics won’t work and can make you ill. If you have a bacterial infection, you need to know which antibiotic will work against it. If the organism is resistant to the antibiotic, taking it won’t do anything, no matter how much you take, and could possibly cause further harm. This is why self medicating and not seeing a doctor is a bad idea, for everyone really.