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So no need to have appendixes removed prior to being stationed in Antarctica anymore?
Wait is that a requirement?
Apologies for the source, but I remember reading the same thing in a better source too.
It's interesting, an acquaintance of mine had this happen. Hospitalized, with antibiotics, but just fine, no knife. Definitely surprising to hear about, but I'm glad we're still learning about these kinds of things. Imagine all the things we take for granted that are simply superstition when examined closely.
I see it more as a refinement of knowledge, just like Newtonian mechanics -> relativity. Or perhaps this is a bad example which should be the other way around because surgery works in all cases whereas the antibiotics work in most but not all cases. Ok, never mind :)
It's interesting, an acquaintance of mine had this happen. Hospitalized, with antibiotics, but just fine, no knife. Definitely surprising to hear about, but I'm glad we're still learning about these kinds of things. Imagine all the things we take for granted that are simply superstition when examined closely.
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Being a person fairly interested in medical science and lacking insurance I always take care to have some antibiotics for just a case (I ask friends from Russia to get them for me, you can buy antibiotics without prescriptions there) although I hardly ever use any actually. Needless to say, I'm going to take quite a selection with me when I travel to some place where they're hard to get and there are no doctors aroun…
> I ask friends from Russia to get them for me http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-09-01-0209010...
They were treated only with IV antibiotics (and pain killers) but spent almost a week in hospital vs people attending for surgeries who were out again in a couple of days.
I imagine _if_ it requires a longer hospital stay that will override the medical necessity.
Perhaps samples could be taken, eg of stool, in order to select bacteria with which to reseed the intestine? I suppose that's quite labour intensive.
So what is the biological mechanism at work here? Take boatloads of antibiotics and kill most of your intestinal flora, so that inflammation on the appendix is reduced? (If I'm completely of the mark please correct me, it's been years since I had any biology related coursework) With all the recent studies of the evolving antibiotic-resistant properties of bacteria and the importance of mantaining a healthy intestinal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_(anatomy)#Maintaining...
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> I ask friends from Russia to get them for me http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-09-01-0209010...
Would you mind telling what's there? It says "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries..." as I open it directly and shows no article body as I open it through us.ixquick-proxy.com.
> A US Special Forces soldier bought fish antibiotics at a pet store to treat his sinusitis. It did not work out.
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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.
That's great to hear. However, keep in mind that appendicitis is still an extremely serious condition that will kill you if left untreated. The fact that you can avoid surgery in some cases doesn't mean that surgery is not an adequate treatment. It's amazing how medicine has advanced: We can now cure illnesses with very minimal amount of invasiveness required in most cases. Even before this news, open surgery was alr…
I technically died from a ruptured appendix and spent 9 days in ICU. The doctors delayed surgery to see if the antibiotics would work. This was ~10 or so years ago.
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Would you mind telling what's there? It says "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries..." as I open it directly and shows no article body as I open it through us.ixquick-proxy.com.
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.