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novin_haLast Friday, I forced a groupmate to go home after she admitted she had a fever of nearly 40 degrees C at night. She went to classes anyway, because 'in the morning she was feeling OK'.
Today, she's back. She said, and that's a direct quote:
"The doctor said he didn't know what exactly I'm ill with and told me to take this antibiotic for a few days."
Firstly - who in the world takes an antibiotic when the illness may be caused by some kind of a virus? And it is not certain what she has isn't a flu, dammit. If she's ill with the flu and is taking antibiotics, she is destroying her body's natural ways of defending itself.
Secondly - if she is taking an antibiotic, isn't healthy yet, what is she doing outside? Shouldn't she be staying at home, eating lots of yoghurt to build up her natural bacteria whatnots and all in all, curing? It's not like the classes in question are a life-or-death matter.
Thirdly - I adore the idea of giving patients antibiotics all the time - and when they finally have a truly dangerous illness, nothing works on them. That's just so bright.
Why not eat garlic - a natural antibiotic? Or try million other ways of curing oneself?
The medicines a brilliant doctor prescribed killed parts of my sister's brain and a similar situation happened to my best friend. My other friend's acqiantance died after being given an antibiotic he was allergic to.
Why do people blindly trust their doctors? Why don't they read about the medicines they are to take? And why in the hell do they think a flu or other serious illnesses may be treated with just medicines and without taking care of the whole body?
I'm not just being angry about it because these people are hurting themselves, which they are - but because this is one of the reasons why more and more disabled children are born. Because - pardon my language - when we fuck with nature, she kicks us where it hurts us.
Today, she's back. She said, and that's a direct quote:
"The doctor said he didn't know what exactly I'm ill with and told me to take this antibiotic for a few days."
Firstly - who in the world takes an antibiotic when the illness may be caused by some kind of a virus? And it is not certain what she has isn't a flu, dammit. If she's ill with the flu and is taking antibiotics, she is destroying her body's natural ways of defending itself.
Secondly - if she is taking an antibiotic, isn't healthy yet, what is she doing outside? Shouldn't she be staying at home, eating lots of yoghurt to build up her natural bacteria whatnots and all in all, curing? It's not like the classes in question are a life-or-death matter.
Thirdly - I adore the idea of giving patients antibiotics all the time - and when they finally have a truly dangerous illness, nothing works on them. That's just so bright.
Why not eat garlic - a natural antibiotic? Or try million other ways of curing oneself?
The medicines a brilliant doctor prescribed killed parts of my sister's brain and a similar situation happened to my best friend. My other friend's acqiantance died after being given an antibiotic he was allergic to.
Why do people blindly trust their doctors? Why don't they read about the medicines they are to take? And why in the hell do they think a flu or other serious illnesses may be treated with just medicines and without taking care of the whole body?
I'm not just being angry about it because these people are hurting themselves, which they are - but because this is one of the reasons why more and more disabled children are born. Because - pardon my language - when we fuck with nature, she kicks us where it hurts us.
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Date: 2005-11-09 09:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-09 09:28 am (UTC)They probably couldn't have saved him anyway, but still, how dare they treat a person like that?
Experience and traditional medicines probably are everything ;)