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Originally Posted by Morrigoon
But how often do people allow a bladder infection to worsen because they can't get to a doctor?
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Now they can.
I get what your original point was, and some things like allergy medication should be available OTC or nearly OTC. Things that require antibiotics or that have symptoms similar to something more serious should not. Antibiotics are already over-prescribed and should be more controlled (by doctors, not the government), not less (dispensed by a pharmacist after being given a random list of symptoms).
The over-prescribing of antibiotics is personal to me thanks to all the antibiotic resistant strains out there now. I am seriously allergic to anything that ends in 'cillin or is derived from a 'cillin antibiotic - as in if they were to administer penicillin they would have to do it in the hospital because the reaction would be life threatening. There isn't much I can take and if things become resistant to zythromax I'm pretty much SoL.