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If you’re ever lost in a forest, and you want to be rescued, just start building a house. Someone will magically appear to ask if you have a building permit.
Put on a pair of headphones and start listening to something. Then set about to making shelter or building a fire or something. You’ll be rescued as soon as your hands are full because someone will come along to ask you the single most inane question of your life.
If you’re in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.
In telecoma version is take a fibre optic cable with you and burry it. A backhoe will promptly arrive to dig it up.
Better yet, tell them you were taking antibiotics for a “viral” infection, like a cold.
Course lengths for antibiotics isn’t well studied. From this article:
In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.
We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.
What the fuck. They told me that antibiotic resistant bacteria was caused by taking too little antibiotics. Who can I trust now???
Over, under, and misuse have resulted in adaptations by bacteria. Which is to say, life evolves. Its too bad, and there is still a role for antibiotics in our world, but we have to trim our use of it.
As a joke it’s perfect 😂 but also: please don’t actually do this—finishing antibiotics as prescribed (or calling your doc if you’re having side effects) is the real pro tip.
Looks like we found the pharmacist.
Recent research has found that the recommended length of a course of antibiotics is basically just a guess and doesn’t have any hard science backing it.
I’ve even seen research that suggests that not finishing the full course if you feel better helps prevent resistant bacteria from taking over (because the antibiotics are killing the bacteria that are outcompeting them).
See, the logic I heard re: resistance is the opposite. An infection is only an infection when the bacterial levels are high enough to cause symptoms. Anything below that is definitionally at a level where your body can at worst manage those bacteria without triggering symptoms. You can still be contagious, though.
So, when you don’t finish your antibacterial regimen but instead stop when you feel better, you are maximizing the culture size of bacteria with some resistance, creating maximal chance for some resistant bacteria to spread. Finishing your regimen kills the most amount of bacteria; yes, the surviving ones at this point are the most resistant, but are at a small enough number that propagation and spread are far less probable.
There are studies linked in this post that disagree with that logic.
The logic you heard is the long held belief that’s being challenged with new evidence, and it takes a super long time to break the medical community of long held beliefs.
For example, even in the 90s medical schools were still teaching that you couldn’t get addicted to opioids if you were actually in pain.
And there are still psychiatrists that will say you can’t have autism because you can make eye contact with people, because that’s what the DSM5 says.
That may be true, but given that doctors are better equipped to understand the changing landscape of medical knowledge, it’s wisest to take medication as prescribed
This is exactly the same as saying to a software developer: “I was going to ask you to write me some software to do this, but I’ll just get AI to do it instead”
No, because we wont be compelled to answer…
Good for ya if you solved one of your problem with AI.
Good luck tho.“I used to do programming when you could put code on your MySpace page”
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
One of the best ways to get information out of people who are hoarding knowledge is to say something so blatantly false to them that they can’t help but lecture you on why you’re wrong.
ah yes. Murphy’s law.
Uhm actually, that is Cunningham’s law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!
Murphy’s law states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” smhmh.
Um actually you’re wrong, what you’re referencing is Poe’s law,
Cunninghams law is “whoever smelt it, dealt it”I thought Cunningham’s law had to do with over-intelligent pigs
Nah, over-intelligent pigs is covered in “Animal Farm”, a classic dystopian novel by
George OrwellAldous Huxley shit sorry I accidentally misremembered it right.I thought that was from the book 2001 based off the movie.
No you’re thinking of Rubik Kube’s for which he invented the the Hoover Dam
That’s true now, but Murphy actually said “if there’s two ways of doing something people will do it wrong every time”
What can go wrong will go wrong was Finagle’s law until Murphy came along with a better name for a similar rule
But Murphy’s rule was better before as it gave a solution: ensure there’s only one way to do a thing
Murphy was a test subject for acceleration tests on rocket sleds. One run was ruined as all the accelerometers had been plugged in the wrong way, so no acceleration data was collected
ಠ_ಠ
And the infectiologist and the microbiologist will then scold the pharmacist and here you go, you started a bar fight.
I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
My elderly parents showing me clearly AI videos of a $30 robot puppy…
I couldn’t convince them it was AI. I tried to explain CGI with shit like Pixar and Disney movies but it didn’t work. NICOO puppy
That shit should be illegal.
They must have known that CGI in Pixar and Disney movies is very different from an AI-generated video and concluded that you had no idea what you were talking about based on that inaccuracy.
“Computers can make up things that look real. Like superhero movies and kid movies (disney/Pixar). This AI crap just made it cheaper and easier so there’s lots of fake stuff everywhere”
Don’t worry, didn’t intend that seriously, was just an attempt at a knowledgeable/novice reversal joke.
Fr! Not even pharmacist, just anyone with a passive knowledge of germ theory!
I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT,
Hi there, I work in a small lab just upstairs and was wondering if it’s okay if I spoof a few MAC addresses to get wired internet and then use my personal VPN to torrent a few GB’s of films and games? I’m sure you understand
I mean, a few GB would probably be done in a few seconds, so no big deal, just don’t seed past 1.5. The VPN actually makes it easier on the routers if there’s any NAT going on because the VPN handles managing the individual connection forwarding table.
Now if you said a few TB, that might be an issue.
Haha! Yeah, I’m just a GP’s son and even I wouldn’t resist the urge on that one!
I just had a thought, do they still put a shitload of antibiotics into animal feeds on factory farms? Doesn’t that contribute to antibiotic resistance?
Just another good reason to not eat animals
Don’t look at what being used to fertilize your fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at what being sprayed on any of those fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at any of the other pieces of the food chain.
I assume you’re talking about manure, but I think industrially-made fertilizers made from hydrocarbons/phosphor/potash are way, way more common, no?
I mean that all depends on the organization whether they consider it organic or not and they’re not using man-made fertilizer and using natural fertilizers etc. I think quite more of the people that are into that type of lifestyle are more interested in eating organically which it’s more common to utilize something like a manure fertilizer.
The animals eat the same food so in the end you can’t escape it. But you can stop to make animals suffer for your burger.
That’s why, in general you should look into non-GMO or organic foods. There are a few fruits and vegetables that are hardy on their own, but berries, broccoli, spinach, etc tend to absorb the chemicals used by farmers and people are indirectly ingesting them.
Check out this guy. Still doesn’t understand what fertilizer is made of. Especially organic…
I honestly don’t understand what point you’re trying make.
At least not the animals that are fed modified food. It’s no reason to not eat grass fed animals
It you think torture and killing animals is not a reason, then yea sure.
- Nature - grass takes up a huge area;
- Climate - cattle heat up the atmosphere
- Animal welfare - this is a long list
- Health - generally worse to eat animals
- Money - cost price is higher Besides, it is not really necessary to eat animals.
- Grass does take up a huge area. What would you do with that area considering it’s too dry or too infertile to grow anything other than grass, and it can only manage grass when there’s animals fertilising it
- Any grass eating animal makes methane. Rot on idle land makes methane. If all the cows were killed deer would equal their biomass quickly. Cows are managed and there are plans for modifying their microbiome to completely process their food to CO2. This is the same weight of carbon that the grass regrows. Methane effectually breaks down to CO2 so castle are carbon neutral, but the time as methane is a problem
- Animal welfare. Indeed a long list. I would love to see many types of animal agriculture banned. Some are far too cruel for a wealthy nation
- I don’t believe you.
- I’m not saying everyone must eat only meat, and lots of it. Why should I be restricted from what you can’t afford?
It is necessary to eat animals of you wish to thrive and do not wish to take supplements. Look up the list of what vegans sold supplement to be healthy; it’s a much longer list than a person on a mixed diet
Mixed diet required supplements:
; empty list
Vegan required supplement list:
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin D (unless you produce enough cholesterol and get enough sunlight)
- Long chain omega 3 fatty acids
- Iron
- Calcium
- Zinc
- Iodine
According to https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-supplements-for-vegans#6-Zinc
I would add creatine to the list, since it’s seeming more and more important and only occurs in meat.
Funny that herbivores don’t need supplementation, but we do, even though we can eat so many different plants than most herbivores.
I just provided some other reasons to not eat grass-fed animals. Seems you have a single sided view on all of them. A fully nuanced overview would take books to write, so I’ll abbreviate it to some counter arguments:
- Humans should not exploit the whole planet, we’re already causing the 6th mass extinction as it is. Lots of current grass land would have forests or marshes grow back. When nature grows back instead of monocultural grass, this is not only good for biodiversity, it also captures CO2, which lowers global temperatures. Like what happened in the Little Ice Age from 1400-1800, when epidemics in Europe and the Americas reduced human population, with less land required for food production.
- Grass requires fertilizer to restore the depletion of minerals in the soil taken out by cattle and humans. And fertilizer requires huge amounts of energy to make, heating up the planet. Further, letting other plants grow than only grasses moves animals away from rumination and associated methane production.
- Grass fed animals are slaughtered in the same houses as where the rest of cattle is malhandled, as time is of the essence for profits, which induces violence and often leads to animal awareness during slaughtering. These animals also lead a life in captivity and have been bred to be a mere shadow of the wild animals they once were.
- There are lots of studies and websites that support my claim. But people are funny when it comes to belief, they can (dis)believe almost anything.
- Money generally influences people’s choices, even when they have enough of it.
As you may have guessed I don’t eat animals, the only supplement I take is vitamin B12 once a week, the rest I get enough of through my daily diet. There’s really no need to eat animal products, grass fed or not.
1 seems to be a population comment.
If 2 is correct, how are the permaculture farms I get meat from increasing the carbon stored in their soil? Does your fod come from permaculture farms?
3 isn’t true unless the animals were raised in the same area, which they often are not.
4 I’m in a meat eating community which was often trolled by people. The vegan studies they shared were not convincing, they were predominately based on for frequency questionnaires, that’s why I’m not convinced. Do you know of any RCTs or even just well controlled studies? They’re unfortunately not common enough for diet - they have trouble randomly assigning someone to a diet for long enough to make a difference
Googling for
Sydney diet heart studygives you an at-first-glance correct AI summary of that test. It was suppressed in the '70s when the data was collected, but accidentally found and republished using modern statistic techniques in 2013. You haven’t heard of it because it says margarine is more dangerous than butterThis is the paper if the summary isn’t enough: https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707
Would you expect a carnivore dieter to be most at risk from heart disease? The sporty carnivores have cholesterol 5x the upper edge of the guidance. This worried one enough to raise money, start a research foundation, and fund some research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772963X2400303X the AI summary isn’t good on this, it didn’t get the 2024 update.
5. Meat is expensive compared to plants and fungus kilo for kilo, you ought to be happy.
If you get night blindness, urgently start supplementing retinol (vitamin A) people who previously ate meat have about a 5 year supply stored in their fat, I guess obese people have much more, but I doubt there are many obese vegans; I don’t think there are obese carnivores either, except those who have only just started it in order to lose weight
I don’t think your choice is significantly worse than mine for someone who can afford supplementation. I’m sure just like in carnivore people talk about all the health problems that are caused by the current terrible common food but are fixed by the diet change.
Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don’t blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we’re reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn’t great.
Iirc it doesn’t because the antibiotics don’t target the same bacteria that makes humans sick.
Until those diseases jump the species gap
I don’t think that’s super common for bacteria. You see it more with viruses.
Yersinia Pestis has entered the chat
I didn’t say it never happens, but it’s pretty rare.
oh my man/lass, next time you buy a tangerine have a look at the label on what they put on the skin
They also have to remember that doesn’t count what gets put in the ground to fertilize that plant to make it grow.
We still give them shitloads yeah, but it’s complicated. Changes have been made globally. There’s basically no risk to us. The antibiotics don’t get into our food, and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans. Wild animals still pose more risk.
and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.
But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence “Most human diseases originated in non-humans” and lists a who’s who of pandemics as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoonosisOr do you mean something different?
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
A gallon of beans
that’s coffee.
Would you like some nut juice with your bean soup? (Adding almond milk to coffee.)
i prefer oat thank you
I’ve heard it tastes better than milk on coffee. Gotta try.
i think so. it gives a little carb flavor without being to carb-y.
Vanilla soy latte is a three bean soup!
Vaseline
Get fancy and use Vicks
Yellow Mustard.
Habanero juice mixed with vicks.
Tiger balm.
tell them to put a whole onion in their sock and call it a day
Butter
Grapefruit poultice
Just tell them the joke was weak, and move on with your life.
We need one of these for every field.
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear air moving. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
Are you trolling?
I don’t think so? I know people here love Linux. That’s great. I just have to assume those folks aren’t gamers/power users, because why would I pick an OS that doesn’t support those things? It’s crazy to me. It feels like the people at Linux are trying to lock me out of my own computer, which I own! And I can’t imagine someone’s little hobby coding project is very secure!? Correct me if I’m wrong! I just don’t get it.
Oh OK, you’re not trolling.
You must be joking!
(I’ve got a MIRV correction missile fueling up in my silo now, ready to launch in case you’re not. That’s why I’m asking for so much confirmation, 'cause those things are expensive!)
Man… I get it. I’ve changed at least five windows machines to Linux in the past. This past fall, I was switch my HP spectre to Linux and bricked the fucking thing.
All of the security windows shit meant a bunch of bios changes, then out of nowhere it wouldnt charge the battery.
No idea how to fix it now that the battery and/or laptop won’t recognize the power plugged into any of the usbc ports. Ive tried different chargers, different outlets, and leaving it plugged in for 24 hours, but no life at all. No power means I cant restore to default bios, and Linux wouldnt install because once I was done fucking with the security, i didnt have enough battery to complete the install.
It’s fucking embarrassing.
I then gave up and upgraded to a gaming laptop with a 5070ti, but I’d love to resurrect that old one if anybody has any tips.
Resetting the BIOS involves removing the internal CR2032 battery. Not a charged (main) battery.
Is that a fact? Well, maybe i’ll give that a shot if it’s easy enough. Thanks for the heads up.
Google it for the specific device you have, especially how to open it.
I’d try one of the big Linuxes, such as Ubuntu, they often are more compatible than other Linuxes. Have you tried searching for “Linux on HP spectre” to see if there’s any special configuration required
Ubuntu is what I was endeavoring to install.
I googled all sorts of things to no avail. Now, software solutions seem moot because it wont power on or even charge.
I should google “how to charge a laptop battery when it’s removed” or “do new laptop batteries come pre-charged” … I feel like if I can get some juice, i can reset the bios to default and hopefully undo my power issue. Then, i can start this whole thing over again with extra caution.
I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have bad enough vision that it causes them daily problems that they complain about regularly, but don’t want to wear glasses for vanity reasons.
contacts exist, but y'know ...
understandably many people don’t want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
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learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat
Honestly I wonder how many people tried both and agree that it’s kinda similar :D It’s the part where you train yourself to ignore your instinctual reluctance and reflexes to “touch” a part of your body that’s not supposed to be touched like that.
I would never have made the connection without reading your comment, but once I read it, I almost spat out my coffee.
Something that especially resonates with my experience is that my optometrist advised practicing holding my eye open for contacts without trying to put anything near my eye, because even before I tried putting in the contacts, my upper lid kept trying to close , and that made it harder to hold my lids in the correct position.
Man, this made me laugh. I feel like I’ve mentally saved away your original comment, because some day, there will be an opportunity to make this comparison to someone else who will find it as hilarious as I did.
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
I’m 💀.
I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.
Not a contact lense wearer myself, but I think there are also soft contact lenses which might not be as hard.
I think I tried the soft ones but I am not 100% sure? Basically, one eye was fine and the other would NOT go in.
TL;DR: Would rather deepthroat.
Got any deepthroating tips? Asking for a friend…
I think one way to avoid the gag reflex is to “swallow” that cock. Like do the swallow motion but hold it mid-swallow (this trick works to make your Adam’s apple easier to shave, too, as it kinda recedes under your skin).
Never put this theory to practice on a dick, but the gag reflex is about avoiding inhaling stuff, and we (usually) have no problem swallowing food.
You can start practicing just with your fingers — I find it easiest with two. Put your fingers in your mouth as far back as you can without gagging, and leave them there for a few moments, breathing through your nose. It’s important that you don’t go so far as to make yourself gag — I’ve heard that this can actually strengthen your gag reflex, so go slowly.
I found the breathing the most challenging part of it, so practicing with my fingers in this way helped a lot with that. Doing this every day made a huge difference after only a week or two. A big tip that I’d give is that you shouldn’t take a big breath in before trying to deep throat — in hindsight, that’s something that I would often do, and it made things harder. What actually got me started practicing this was that I saw someone who could go all the way down and basically hold a large cock in their throat for an extended time — far longer than one could do in one breath. That made me realise that I needed to focus on being able to calmly breathe through my nose at a regular rate.
If you want to move to something larger, a softer jelly dildo can be useful to practice on, I’ve heard, but I found that practicing with fingers was sufficient.
When you’re actually going down on someone, note whether their penis has a curve to it, as many does. When I had a partner who had an upwards curve, I found that I needed to approach it from the direction of their stomach (so either lounging on the bed beside them, or straddling their chest). A downward curve makes it much easier to approach from below, which is convenient if you’re kneeling and your partner is standing.
I also found it useful to actively try to relax my throat muscles. It was hard for me to know what a relaxed throat felt like at first, which meant that I found exercises like this helpful. I also found that when I was being too ambitious when practicing with a partner, my throat muscles becamenless relaxed. That’s why I found it useful to practice with fingers: I had as much time as I needed to practice until things became automatic, rather than having to worry about putting on a titillating performance for a partner.
An auxiliary tip that’s useful in general for blowjobs is that you can use your hands to sort of simulate deep throating by stimulating the base of the penis at the same rhythm as what your head is moving at. This also makes it easier to gradually working up to taking more of the penis in your throat, in your own time (the last thing most people want is to end up puking on their partner, after all)
Will say from experience that beyond the general yuck, and logistics of having to clean puke off your junk and the surroundings, getting puke on the head of your penis is not pleasant. The acidity of it stings/burns. Do not reccomend.
When you practice with a dildo, pick one of moderate size that has an as-smooth-as-possible surface and that doesn’t have an overly big knob at the end. Don’t use dildos made from PVC or TPE, the material is porous and thus unsanitary, use silicone dildos instead (do clean those). And then I guess, try to relax, take it slow (really, really slow - for the beginning, try to put it in and just leave it there for a couple of seconds, instead of going straight to fucking your face) and don’t overdo it. Try to practice often for a short time, rather than rarely but for a long time.
I found that it’s easier (less gag-inducing) if I put the dildo on a surface and move my head onto it from the top, rather than moving the dildo with my hand while being upright or lying down. Luckily, that’s a more realistic scenario for oral sex anyway!
These worked for me, hope at least one of them work for you, too!
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.
talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person
It kind of does if you practice cannibalism!
You enrich uranium through centrifugation.
I enrich uranium through bioaccumulation.
We are not the same.
AARRRRG, that one hurt.
Enriching is about isotopes of the same element.
You know elements? The things that have the same chemical property?The whole challenge of enrichment is that you want to separate atoms by mass alone, and the difference is <2%. Nobody would build many expensive centrifuges if there was another way.
I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.
Do you call people “smoothskin”?
I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?
Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questionable browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.
Edit: questional -> questionable
Here’s my 50 CSV files for you to create a powerbi report on top of.
As well as
How do I export the data from my report to CSV?
Don’t you dare!
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
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Let me ruffle all your feathers: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6736742/
That is interesting. But a consideration for the doctor, not the layperson. Everyday people should still take the full course prescribed and hope their physician has prescribed the right dose.
You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.
Here’s hoping they do, yeah. I suspect most do, at least where I live.
Where in that document does it say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking antibiotics because they “feel better now”?
This is something one can bring up with the doctor who prescribed it, but not a decision to make on feelings.
Where in my post did I say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking medication?
I tried to share some information, that show nothing is black and white and only because something is believed by many, that something can still be wrong.
The meme you commented under is about someone getting attention by prematurely stopping to take antibiotics.
If you don’t want people to assume what you mean, please add context.
Well that was unexpectedly interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
Came here to post this
So why do you have to take the full thing of antibiotics? It has never been explained to me
As I understand it, just cause you feel better it doesn’t mean the bacteria is fully gone. If you stop taking them before that point the surviving bacteria (which were more resistant) will start multiplying again and you’ll need more/stronger antibiotics at that point
Its because there might be a few bacteria left if you dont eat all the antibiotics
And those survivors might evolve and get resistant to antibiotics
Better to kill them all, leaving no survivors
Let’s not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.
We’re already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.
If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you’ll understand why that sucks so much as it does.
That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.
Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.
There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.
So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.
They believe that after a short time on antibiotics the bacteria that have not yet died have some resistance to the antibiotics. So it’s better to take more and kill them all so the ones a little resistant can’t live on to become very resistant. There is newer research that suggests this practice is not optimal though.
“feeling better” is our physiological response to the medication working, not an indication of whatever you’re sick with being out of your system. you could feel better but have bacteria remaining in small amounts not making you experience symptoms but then they begin proliferating. eventually, you’ll feel sick again. take the entire regimen as recommended. it’s only “recommended” because they can’t make you do it, but really, you have to do it. that’s how it’s effective.
Funny how these “assumptions” are proven wrong but still everyone regurgitates them.
Don’t eat eggs, because they increase your cortisol… is another one of these myths
Never heard that one.
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Okay, so how does the average, non-medically-trained person know when the best time to stop is?
…finish all of the medication. antibiotics are not prescribed beyond their need to be consumed. read the directions given to you and follow them.
Exactly. I never said anything about the layperson. Trained medicals on the other hand should be required to update their knowledge.
The non-medically trained person? They should not! The medically trained person on the other hand, should question and update their training, shouldn’t they?
So a person should take the entire course of antibiotics that are prescribed to them. I guess I’m confused about why you said to the person who said you should take your entire course of antibiotics and not stop because of feelings is making false assumptions.
The other replies are now wrong. Advice has started to change. It’s now believed that finishing the course after the infection has been treated and eliminated drives antibiotic resistance. Rationally thinking about it you can see why, more unnecessary antibiotic exposure to bacteria both in your body and in the sewer/environment where you excrete the antibiotics
There is nuance here and it’s up to medical professionals and researchers to find the right balance. The biggest source of the unnecessary usage of antibiotics is rampant over-prescription, not taking a few more doses after the first second you feel better. Rebounding with a more resilient infection after stopping antibiotics early is still a relevant concern and happens frequently.
Obviously, if over-perscription is a problem and medical professionals are the ones prescribing these meds, it needs to be allowed to point to deprecated beliefs these people have.
You all are acting, as if everyone that points to this error is recommending that sick people should stop taking their meds.




























