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Here in the US I got pretty upset the other day when I got an ear infection and went to the pharmacy, and all of the ear drops they had were homeopathic. Even t
by inkcapmushroom 3y ago
Here in the US I got pretty upset the other day when I got an ear infection and went to the pharmacy, and all of the ear drops they had were homeopathic. Even the CVS brand medicines were homeopathic, labeled along the bottom edge of the box where you had to pick it up off the shelf to even see that.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIs there a non prescription ear drop that would help resolve an infection?
- MattGaiser 3y agoDoesn't polysporin have actual antibiotics?
- inkcapmushroom 3y agoI'm not sure. But I would at least like to trust that, if there is one being sold on the pharmacy shelves as helping an ear infection, that it isn't just water.
- jerf 3y agoOh, it's even better than that. "Homeopathic", being unregulated, has gotten itself slapped on all sorts of things... some of which work fine! They're labelled homeopathic, but have meaningful quantities of active ingredients. Which makes them bad "homeopathic" remedies, but good remedies overall. And probably contributes further to the confusion that homeopathy makes any sense. Example, I was once given some "homeopathic menthol cough drops". They worked fine, because they contained the same amount of menthol as any other cough drops. Just as labeling something homeopathic doesn't make it work, it doesn't make it not work either. I imagine there must be message boards out there where "real" homeopaths rant at length about the difficulty of getting homeopathic remedies nowadays because there are so many things falsely labelled as homeopathic.