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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I think it's important to learn from past mistakes so as not to repeat them in the future. That's why I said what I said previously about your immune system. The immune system is our ticket to good health if we guard it and nurture it.
One other thing I would like to question is why you would take antibiotics (as you stated above) for a cold. You must have asked for it because a good doctor should know better than to prescribe antibiotics for a cold. The only thing you likely accomplished was to kill off a lot of good bacteria in your digestive system.
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Here is Dr. Mom's cold information 101. A cold will last a week, or if we gargle, rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids and take cold medication to relieve the symptoms it will last seven days. A cold is caused by a rhinovirus and there isn't a medicine to kill it at this point.
HOWEVER, after the week, it may leave us with a seconday infection caused by bacteria which can be treated with an antibiotic. A secondary infection would be a sinus infection with a purelent discharge, or a lung or bronchial infection.
Seniors know that anything that attacks the lungs or bronchia should not be treated lightly because pneumonia is dangerous for the over 55 bunch.
The pneumonia immunization does not immunize us from all forms of pneumonia.
I am not a medical person. However, I am a mom. And you can bolster your immune system with all kinds of healthy foods until the cows come home. Healthy people still get secondary infections sometimes.