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What’s even worse is that leptospirosis is treated with doxycycline… the first line to pretty much all bacterial infections (with a cell wall). Even if you don
by John23832 1y ago
What’s even worse is that leptospirosis is treated with doxycycline… the first line to pretty much all bacterial infections (with a cell wall).
Even if you don’t know what the bacteria is, if you have a culture, do a resistance study.
- sigmoid10 1y agoThe article literally says that all tests for infection came back negative. It is not said explicitly, but this heavily implies that she had negative cultures (not uncommon for leptospirosis) and did not present with things like elevated white counts (also not uncommon for this pathogen - especially for superficial infections). The article also clearly says they (mis-)diagnosed it as autoimmune disease and treated with steroids, which is pretty much the worst thing you can do in that case. Leptospirosis goes away most of the time without any treatment if you have a working immune system. So if you really need a contrarian takeaway from this editorial, it's that doctors are still sometimes more dangerous than diseases (which used to be true in general up until about 100 or so years ago).
- John23832 1y agoI was skimming precoffee