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- From: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: UTI's
- Message-ID: <24463@handicap.news>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 13:50:44 GMT
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- X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
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- Index Number: 24463
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- [This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]
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- JC> Maintenance doses of any antibiotic should be avoided
- JC> because they weaken the bodies natural defences. In addition,
- JC> when you do get an infection while taking a maintenance drug, the
- JC> infection is often harder to get rid of.
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- CO> True. I've always been concerned about those very issues. Guess I
- CO> in good shape for many years. Maybe it's time for a
- PB> change. -!-
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- PB> Hi! Just thought I'd interject here. I was on
- PB> maintenance antibiotics for
- PB> many years and became immune to almost all of them. About 2 years ago, my
- PB> uro and I hit upon something that has seemed to work for
- PB> me (knock-wood), the
- PB> first 5 days of the month I take an antibiotic (Cipro)
- PB> twice a day. This seems
- PB> to wipe out any starting infection effectively. In 2
- PB> years I've only had to
- PB> take additional antibiotics once and that's because when I
- PB> was in the hospital
- PB> they put in a foley. Otherwise I do intermitten
- PB> catherization 6-7 times a day.
- PB> I also take 500 mg Vitamin C twice a day, I've heard
- PB> various opinions on this.
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- I have taken Cinobac once a day for over 6 1/2 years with no UTI's. I
- also self cat 3 times a day and now (this last year) take 500 mgs
- vitamin C twice a day. Sounds like what we do seems to work for each of
- us.
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- PB> ... Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
- PB> --- Blue Wave/TG v2.05 [NR]
- PB> * Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS 619-697-8873 San Diego CA 9600v32 (1:202/323.0)
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- -Keith-
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