One of the comments I received mistakenly states that antibiotics make viruses stronger over time. While this isn’t correct (in fact, the near-opposite is true: antiobiotics only affect biotics, i.e. bacteria, etc), it raises a really good point.
Take your medicine. ALL of it.
In New York City, we have something called Super Tuberculosis. Or super TB. It’s a multiply resistant form of the disease which came about because a whole lot of TB patients stopped taking their medicine as soon as they felt better. What they didn’t realize was this: they felt better because the medicine had killed a whole lot of bacteria. But not all of them.
The last to die? Those are the strongest of them all.
And what these patients were left with, then, was a rapid regrowth of the strongest TB bugs their body had left, ones that were resistant to the drugs, and would be near impossible to treat.
TB is just one example. Super Bugs are becoming more common across the board.
Thanks for all the wishes, by the way. I'm so much better today that I've already overdone it. I carried a 19" monitor (LCD) and two laptops from home to work... including walking from 35th street to where I work in the East Village. Zzzz.
2 comments:
ICK. I hope I don't get this. I've been riding buses instead of subways for the past week. I simply can't take the sardine can any more. I like your blog, specially the obvious affection you have for your wife and kids. Hope you are feeling better!!!!
Great blog and your post is a good reminder for all your readers.
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