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Re: [RC] Strangles in SE region - Kathy MayedaI agree with you Maryanne - we as a society tend to use too many antibiotics. When I lived in San Francisco, I was always sick. I would go to the doctor and they would automatically without question give me a prescription for antibiotics. I had bad bronchitis maybe about three times one winter, and was given antibiotics only to get sick again three weeks later. One day I stayed home sick from work, but got bored and went to the bookstore to get something to read. I found "The Yeast Syndrome." One the cover it listed symptoms that are pretty much like having a flu but it would be candida albicans overgrowth that would be causing it. And yes, the antibiotics contributes to candida overgrowth. So I followed the diet in the book and cured myself of being that sick all winter. Then I moved out of the drip line of San Francisco which reduce my environmental mold exposure. I usually do get sick once a year but it's usually more because if I pull an all nighter and dont get enough sleep during the rainy season - wham - I'll get sick. So I'm trying to stay smarter about that. The diet was pretty obnoxiously limiting, but it was a much more effective cure than the antibiotics in the long run. K. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Maryanne Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: One of the problems with that approach was seen here last summer during the infuenza epidemic. Barns would give antibiotics "just in case" and then later horses would come down with salmonella or some other gut nasty because the antibiotics had killed off a lot of good gut flora. We probably lost a lot of horses due to faulty treatments. Being on top of something contagious like that is a real balancing act. Too much treatment can do as much harm as too little and it's so hard to know which is which. Maryanne Stroud Gabbani msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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