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This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
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Modern medicine is all about curing the sick instead of helping maintain physical health. Prevention is better than cure and all that jazz.
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Quote:Sorry post was indeed a bit simplistic.
Kat, I think your view is a bit simplistic
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id say dont over do it on the antibiotics, what do you think of the case where a family was taken to court for neglecting their child because he was dieing of something and they didnt belive in medical treatment in their religion, so they were just letting him die? sad really
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
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robotface, phage therapy has been tried in the past, and although there does seem to be a renewed interest, it has a number of pitfalls. First, phages are very immunogenic. Second, phages are too large in many cases to reach bacteria. For example, phages aren't going to be able to get into the middle of an abscess or cross the blood-brain barrier. Third, in a wild setting, resistance to phage infection evolves rather rapidly in populations of bacteria. As the population of the bacteria falls, the phage density will also fall unless a continuous infusion is used...and only if the patient does not have antibodies to the phage.
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Phage therapy was abandoned in the West pretty much with the discovery of penicillin, but it has still been used in places like the Republic of Georgia ever since then and is increasingly being looking into here, especially given the increase in things like MRSA. Anyway, if the bacteria develop resistance then the phages also adapt just as quickly. Also a small initial dosage is needed as growth is exponential as long as there are any bacteria left to target... afterwards it drops off reasonably quickly.
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And surely since phages only attack a particular type of bacteria the body's immune system isn't involved in any way at all? In fact unlike antibiotics they don't have any negative effect on microflora at all.
-Mike
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....a family was taken to court for neglecting their child because he was dieing of something and they didnt belive in medical treatment in their religion, so they were just letting him die? sad really
I think it's abuse. Even prisoners have a right to medical treatment.
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The other problem with phages is that they are very specific. A specific phage will infect only a specific species of bacteria. If you haven't been able to positively culture and identify the bacterium responsible for the infection, you can't target it with a phage.
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