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This is multiple layers of uneducated and misguided. Apart from it being a bad idea on the surface, due to antibiotic resistance and wiping out healthy parts of
by wswope 1y ago
This is multiple layers of uneducated and misguided. Apart from it being a bad idea on the surface, due to antibiotic resistance and wiping out healthy parts of the microbiome, many common antibiotics have anti-inflammatory effects separate from their antimicrobial effects: https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-7643-8550-7_7 https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-7643-8550-7_7
Seeing someone improve after taking antibiotics is not indicative of them having an infection that’s being treated by the antibiotics.
- OutOfHere 1y ago> Seeing someone improve after taking antibiotics is not indicative of them having an infection It could be. It is also not indicative of them not having an infection. It just depends. As per my limited understanding, anti-inflammatory antibiotics are more relevant for respiratory and auto-immune conditions, not too broadly otherwise. If the source of the inflammation is not treated, the temporary reduction in inflammation is pointless because the inflammation will return.
- blindriver 1y agoYou are the one that is misguided and uneducated. If someone is suffering as badly as the people in the article and the doctors have no idea what is going on, then the benefit of taking antibiotics outweighs the risks. You seem to forget that this patient is suffering. Having their gut biome wiped out is nothing compared to them chronically suffering as they are.