Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
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#2I get a winter sinus infection followed by a throat infection every year. Antibiotics was the only way to end it or I would end up bed-ridden. But the antibiotics really upset my gut.
For the past two years, once I start getting sick, I take high dosages of oregano and thyme essential oil mixed in olive oil, about 100 drops over a whole day. Two or three days of this and it never fully develops.
Oregano and Thyme oil should burn like hot sauce if it's not diluted.
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#3I get a winter sinus infection followed by a throat infection every year. Antibiotics was the only way to end it or I would end up bed-ridden. But the antibiotics really upset my gut. For the past two years, once I start getting sick, I take high dosages of oregano and thyme essential oil mixed in olive oil, about 100 drops over a whole day. Two or three days of this and it never fully develops. Oregano and Thyme oil…
Any brand recommendations?
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#4I read a recent article [1.] about the state of the antibiotics companies. It was interesting and revealed how over-prescription, fear of over-prescription, and market economics have governed the fate of promising new drugs.
[1.] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/health/antibiotics-new-re...
I like the idea of bacteriophage therapy and would like to see this field researched more in the U.S. Here is an article about the limits on wider use of bacteriophage therapy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821673/
Re: Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
#5I get a winter sinus infection followed by a throat infection every year. Antibiotics was the only way to end it or I would end up bed-ridden. But the antibiotics really upset my gut. For the past two years, once I start getting sick, I take high dosages of oregano and thyme essential oil mixed in olive oil, about 100 drops over a whole day. Two or three days of this and it never fully develops. Oregano and Thyme oil…
I used to get sinus infections yearly and get antibiotics.
I changed one thing: I stopped blowing my nose.
That forces the infection deeper into your sinuses and Eustachian tubes.
Re: Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
#6I get a winter sinus infection followed by a throat infection every year. Antibiotics was the only way to end it or I would end up bed-ridden. But the antibiotics really upset my gut. For the past two years, once I start getting sick, I take high dosages of oregano and thyme essential oil mixed in olive oil, about 100 drops over a whole day. Two or three days of this and it never fully develops. Oregano and Thyme oil…
I used to get sinus infections yearly and get antibiotics. I changed one thing: I stopped blowing my nose. That forces the infection deeper into your sinuses and Eustachian tubes.
Is that a good thing? And when you say you stopped blowing your nose, what do you do with all the excess mucus... let it drip?
Re: Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to get sinus infections yearly and get antibiotics. I changed one thing: I stopped blowing my nose. That forces the infection deeper into your sinuses and Eustachian tubes.
Is that a good thing? And when you say you stopped blowing your nose, what do you do with all the excess mucus... let it drip?
I spit it out
Sounds gross but it has completely gotten rid of my yearly sinus infection
Re: Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
#8I read a recent article [1.] about the state of the antibiotics companies. It was interesting and revealed how over-prescription, fear of over-prescription, and market economics have governed the fate of promising new drugs. [1.] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/health/antibiotics-new-re... I like the idea of bacteriophage therapy and would like to see this field researched more in the U.S. Here is an article about…
The current philosophy is bizarre. You get NPs and PAs who pretend to have never heard of secondary infections, refuse to prescribe antibiotics because virus, then you’re back in a week and they magically discover bacteria.
Re: Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How (2017)
#9I get a winter sinus infection followed by a throat infection every year. Antibiotics was the only way to end it or I would end up bed-ridden. But the antibiotics really upset my gut. For the past two years, once I start getting sick, I take high dosages of oregano and thyme essential oil mixed in olive oil, about 100 drops over a whole day. Two or three days of this and it never fully develops. Oregano and Thyme oil…
The thing about 'natural remedies'... is that if they're effective, there is some kind of active ingredient that does something. With proper research, you can figure out what it is, what it does, and hopefully how and why, and how to most effectively make use of it. That's what science and medicine are for.
I get sinus infections with depressing regularity too, and it's awful... I feel very draggy, like I do the bare minimum just to get by, and they go on and on and on, and then presto, antibiotics and it's gone in a day or two, and I wonder why I waited so long.
I really wish there were some advances in detecting (so you're not taking antibiotics for a cold) and treating them.
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#10The real killer is the extreme use of antibiotics in livestock en masse for disease prevention. Increasing the antibiotic pressure on bacteria in livestock and therefore accelerating the potential of a drug resistant bacteria.
We need to be concerned of another major zoonotic disease.