Re: Where can I get metronidazole in AU?


"Beano" <s370782nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gill Passman wrote:
Beano wrote:
haha I just phoned one and they said "ummm, yeah we dont' really deal
with fish!" HA! If only it was like UK or USA here, where you can buy
things over the counter for your fish - it's not like the antibiotics
for fish would be cheaper, in fact I think they would cost more than
they would for humans... but the potential for abuse is high, and there
has been a few discussions about that here lately.

Thanks for your help everyone! I'll keep looking...


Hmm...like yourself, we cannot get anti-biotics in the UK without a
prescription from a vet...and long may it remain IMO...the number of
bacteria now immune to antibiotics is proof of the fact that
indiscriminate use of these drugs is wrong.....they were a great gift to
all of us...misuse has lessened this gift....feeding anti-biotics on a
hunch not just for fish but people as well as led to bacteria immune to
this treatment....my GP will no longer prescribe these drugs on his
medical opinion without lab reports....it is wrong for fish keepers to
give these type of drugs without the correct medical diagnosis...and as a
palative or preventitive treatment is even worse...

JMO but strongly held...

Gill

Yeah preventative use is bad. I'm a medical student, and after years of
hearing people get told to take the whole course of antibiotics, I still
know doctors who don't take the whole course!! But the downside to taking
the whole course is if it's not working, then you create selection
pressure, which weeds out all the susceptible bacteria and leaves the
resistant one, then you end up with a colony of resistant bacteria in you
that you can't get rid of. That's why in hospitals, you'll see them
prescribe about 3 antibiotics at once (to cover what they think the bug
could be) and then when the find out, immediately cease the ones that
aren't required and continue with the one that is, or change it completely
without finishing a course. But still, it would be interesting to find
out the results of this practice after years, whether it's better, worse,
or no different. I suppose I should go and find some articles in case
this is on my exam...

(off topic)
My 6 year old son Luke has health problems asthma/sinus being two major ones
we deal with a lot, two years ago he got a sinus infection that would not go
away for at least two months, it set off his asthma to the point he was on
oxygen, in the hospital, they did several treatments of amoxicillin through
that winter, which I was against but was forced being he was in bad shape,
this past winter he started again and the first antibiotic they gave was
amoxicillin by the second dose he was covered head to toe in fluid filled
bubbles and could not breath, I wondered if it had to do with them giving
him so much of it the year before, I know sometimes you can just become
allergic to something but it was strange that it was amoxicillin that they
kept giving him and it caused such a bad reaction.
Nik
PS: at one point they gave us a script for antibiotics with four refills and
said any time his nose is running and his eyes are swollen start him on the
antibiotics because its a sinus infection, ugh that's when we decided to get
him a different doctor, now he only gets them when its effecting his asthma
and causing breathing problems, and we are trying to treat what's causing
the problems instead of just treating the symptoms.


.

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