Re: Correct me if I'm wrong

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:21:47 -0800, Mary <imnotthere@xxxxxxxxx> Huffed
and Puffed the following into the madness of usenet:

That may be true for your child, but most people can endure a cold
without progressing to pneumonia. I've been diabetic for a long time,
and my husband has also. We both have asthma--his has been more prone
to bronchitis. But a cold doesn't send us to the MD until a fever and a
productive cough are present, which rarely happens anymore.

Children are different. Their systems are more delicate. Infections can
spread more rapidly. Organs are closer together--why do you think they
get ear infections more easily than adults? Their eustacian tubes are
shorter, and a throat infection travels more quickly up to the ears.

But unless an adult has COPD, a cold should not require him/her to
consult an MD.

That's one problem with our healthcare system--people consult MDs more
often than necessary, thus driving up the costs to all of us. Colds
take time to resolve, and we must just wait them out. There are tons of
OTC remedies and home remedies to help in the process. But I wish
people with viruses would stay AWAY from the doctor's office where they
will infect everyone else in the waiting room. Stay home, take some OTC
meds, have some chicken soup, drink some tea--just wait it out. Please.


or better yet, follow your own doctor's advice, the one that knows
your personal medical history and does not play a know it all pretend
doctor wanna be, nurse over stepping her legal license on the net.

Some of us have doctors we know and trust and who know our personal
histories. Some of us only see doctors once in a blue moon. But
no-one on the net, be they a nurse or not, should be telling anyone
not to see their doctor. That is a decision best left to the doctor
and the patient.


Seems you don't have a problem playing doctor on the net when it suits
you. Now lets see if your husband will dare to chastise you for it.

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