Bacteriophages might be an interesting approach to treating Lyme disease in future. Pretty speculative at this stage though and how do you even know the bacteria are there (as this article points out). Once detected how do you avoid the bacteriophage causing an immune reaction, etc.
> It took weeks of careful discussion before she would try a combination of antibiotics. We didn’t yet tell her these antibiotics make some patients feel sicker.
Shouldn’t she be told the possible risks of her medication? If she was 7 i would understand, but I think she’s like 14 at this point? I guess it may be hard to determine when people can own their health decisions. But I’m upset when kids aren’t treated as “real people”, i remember being ignored because I was just a kid. I suspect that by high school almost everyone should be informed about their health decisions.
I'm with you, people act like children don't exist when they're talking about serious matters. But you do have to remember that they lack critical reasoning (partly) and make bad choices based on hormones. Walking the line between autonomy and protection is very very very difficult as a parent. Most people struggle or fail at this, I believe.
blindriver•46m ago
OutOfHere•37m ago
For example, in a specific case, for acute intestinal pain, amoxicilin with clav was being advised, but the etiology+location+correlations suggested that mere metronidazole alone would suffice, and it did. It's case by case.
wswope•3m ago
Seeing someone improve after taking antibiotics is not indicative of them having an infection that’s being treated by the antibiotics.