Antibiotic use & disturbing new ideas

[Guest guest]

I've been a Samters patient since 1996 and have had many, many infections--

In the last month or so, I've read several different articles where the doctors are saying-emphatically-not to bother with antibiotic use because they are unsuccessful in treating sinus infection.

My experience has been consistent. Occassionally I can clear a mild infection with steroids. But severe infections or the more lethal bacteria (ecoli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, serratia, etc) have made me really sick and caused polyps to fully occlude my sinuses. But steroids and the right antibiotic have always cleared the infection (and usually shrunk the polyposis). There have been times when I've been too sick to walk and can't imagine a rinse being prescribed as the answer. I've spent fortunes in money and health with alternative treatments that just didn't work.

Are Samters patients being cut off from antibiotics with this line of thinking?

I'm worried.

Thanks,

Liz