Re: OT yeast and bacterial infections (was Mold Testing for Safety [was: Re: air purifier and clean...

January 9, 2011

How is the original topic--my question about bacterial vaginosis-- " splitting

hairs " ? Perhaps you are referring to your own thing. But, primary facie, this is

just not correct: " it

is splitting hairs to differentiate between toxicity, allergy,

irritation,

inflammation and infection. " You don't treat a fungal yeast infection with

antibiotics; you treat it with an anti-fungal. You don't treat bacterial

vaginosis (my question) with an anti-fungal; you treat it with antibiotics. Good

lord, could you imagine treating a staph infection with any old medicine, say

Robitussin? I mean, it's all the same thing, right? No. Etiology means

everything in medicine. Without etiology, you have no pathway for treatment. The

only exception is when a medicine is stumbled on by chance--as happened with

many psychotropics.

You said: " Seems to me, one's body must be first infected with a substance

before

symptoms of illness occur; whether they be. " That doesn't obviate the need to

determine what the substance is. Also, " infection " isn't quite the right word.

Infection has specific meaning in medicine--it's a colonization. Allergic

responses are not infections--they are responses to exposures and these

exposures need not be colonizations.

None of what I've written contradicts 's quotations.

From: snk1955@... <snk1955@...>

Subject: Re: [] Mold Testing for Safety [was: Re: air purifier and

clean...

Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 7:56 PM

As usual, I agree with your evaluation, Jeanine. I have always thought it

is splitting hairs to differentiate between toxicity, allergy, irritation,

inflammation and infection.

Seems to me, one's body must be first infected with a substance before

symptoms of illness occur; whether they be:

short term, chronic or intermittent; or

impacting one area of the body or many;

or manifest in symptoms of toxicity, allergic, irritant, or colonization

of an unwanted substance.

It is ALL some sort of inflammation caused by an infecting agent.

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