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A tl;dr summary... > A US Special Forces soldier bought fish antibiotics at a pet store to treat his sinusitis. It did not work out. -- I grew up in an area

A tl;dr summary... > A US Special Forces soldier bought fish antibiotics at a pet store to treat his sinusitis. It did not work out. -- I grew up in an area with 6 to 8 different military bases and it is fairly common knowledge in military areas that you can sometimes get away with using fish antibiotics to treat human infections. And in a lot of cases the pills are exactly the same. But sometimes not.

qwerty456127 8y ago
Thanks. A nice-to-know lifehack, I just really hope I'm not going to need it but who knows... BTW I've actually bought pure butyric acid in a fish food store to produce sodium butyrate in my kitchen and take it instead of the human-approved supplement which is available on Amazon but is fairly expensive by the east-European income standards (and, according to the scientific papers I've found so far, hardly does anything if taken in the doses it is usually packed in).
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logfromblammo 8y ago
Article also states that aquarium antibiotics are more expensive than prescription antibiotics, while conveniently omitting the copay and time cost required for the doctor's office visit, which was needed to obtain the prescription. As such, it is also an uncommon practice to lie about symptoms during an office visit that was required for some other reason, to get a prescription for antibiotics that is not immediately needed. I don't actually know anyone who has done this, so it may be just rumor. I do know people who have used aquarium antibiotics, because their copay for a $150 office visit is $150 until their $8000 annual deductible is met. US health care is bananas.
- qwerty456127 8y ago
  > As such, it is also an uncommon practice to lie about symptoms during an office visit that was required for some other reason, to get a prescription for antibiotics that is not immediately needed. Wait, do doctors actually prescribe antibiotics given just invisible symptoms and no actual flora analysis? What's the point of the prescription system them? Isn't a doctor meant to find out what specific bacteria causes the problem and choose the right antibiotic to target these?

qwerty456127 8y ago

Thanks. A nice-to-know lifehack, I just really hope I'm not going to need it but who knows... BTW I've actually bought pure butyric acid in a fish food store to produce sodium butyrate in my kitchen and take it instead of the human-approved supplement which is available on Amazon but is fairly expensive by the east-European income standards (and, according to the scientific papers I've found so far, hardly does anything if taken in the doses it is usually packed in).

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logfromblammo 8y ago

Article also states that aquarium antibiotics are more expensive than prescription antibiotics, while conveniently omitting the copay and time cost required for the doctor's office visit, which was needed to obtain the prescription. As such, it is also an uncommon practice to lie about symptoms during an office visit that was required for some other reason, to get a prescription for antibiotics that is not immediately needed. I don't actually know anyone who has done this, so it may be just rumor. I do know people who have used aquarium antibiotics, because their copay for a $150 office visit is $150 until their $8000 annual deductible is met. US health care is bananas.

qwerty456127 8y ago
> As such, it is also an uncommon practice to lie about symptoms during an office visit that was required for some other reason, to get a prescription for antibiotics that is not immediately needed. Wait, do doctors actually prescribe antibiotics given just invisible symptoms and no actual flora analysis? What's the point of the prescription system them? Isn't a doctor meant to find out what specific bacteria causes the problem and choose the right antibiotic to target these?