Dear Silver Listers: I thought the following exchange on the Health Fraud forum might put your use of CS in perspective. So unless you are ready to make the following substitutes, don't leave home without it. Roger
"That figure doesn't seem plausible. Looking just at outpatient treatment of common bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, most primary care physicians probably couldn't get by with fewer than 20 antimicrobials without significantly compromising quality of care . A quick, back-of-the-envelope list: an oral and a parenteral penicillin , amoxicillin, an oral and a parenteral penicillinase-resistant penicillin for staph infections, azithromycin, doxycycline, trimeth-sulfa, metronidazole, a cephalosporin, a fluoroquinolone, a herpes drug (acyclovir or an analogue), an influenza drug, at least two oral antifungals, topical anti-infectives for eye, ear and skin infections.....did we hit twenty yet? For outpatient asthma treatment, four drugs at the very, very least (inhaled bronchodilator, inhaled steroid, oral leukotriene antagonist, oral prednisone). Cardiovascular drugs? For high blood pressure, four or five drugs bare minimum. Then there's congestive heart failure, hyperlipidemia, arrhythmias, anticoagulation....... What about arthritis drugs? Pain medications? Psychiatric drugs for depression, anxiety, schizophrenia? Drugs for seizure disorders, Parkinson's disease? How about hormone replacement drugs, hormonal contraceptives, drugs for osteoporosis prevention and treatment. Thyroid drugs. Drugs for acid reflux, peptic ulcers, GI motility disorders, colitis. Trying to find a grain of truth in the "twenty drugs" story, it may simply reflect the banal truism that common problems account for the majority of visits to doctors. Maybe the twenty most frequently recorded diagnoses together account for 99% of visits, or something like that. That fact would not make the remaining 1% of visits (which would include hundreds of diagnoses) less important." Stan Polanski -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
