Re: Re: yeast and ear infections

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> From what Doug Kaufmann says, doctors are so unaccustomed to looking

>for fungal infections that they often miss them as the cause of lots

>of ailments. So they simply throw more powerful antibiotics (more

>mycotoxins) at a problem, which can end up making the problem worse.

My own (unconfirmed) experience with my corneal infection seems to fit. On

my first visit, my ophthalmologist gave me antibiotic drops for my eye. At

the very least, the drops did nothing, but really they seemed to make the

infection much worse. Between that and the fact that all my problems

seemed to stem from exposure to some really nasty mold last month, the

logical inference seemed to me to be that my infection was fungal in

nature, but the doctor said no, he'd never ever seen a fungal eye infection

in all his years of practice, so he just gave me a different

antibiotic. This one worked -- but it turns out it that even though it's

closely related to the first antibiotic, it also has significant antifungal

activity.

Of course without proper (expensive) testing I'll never know for sure, but

the fungal explanation seems awfully likely to me.

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>Did he also add to that, " And in all the years of my practice, I've

>been so busy that I missed out on the advent of the internet, so I've

>never really gotten the chance to do a Google or a Medline search " ?

No, but since he works seven days a week, it wouldn't actually surprise me

if he's not up on the internet and related modern tools.

>Patient: Doctor, lots of fungi just came in contact with my eye, and

>now my eye has an infection.

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>Doctor: It must be an unrelated bacterial infection.

That's about the size of it. He's a very nice guy, so I don't really want

to beat up on him -- and for all I know he knowingly chose drops the second

time around which have antifungal activity -- but he acted like he was

completely confident that it couldn't possibly have been a fungal infection.

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" but he acted like he was completely confident that it couldn't

possibly have been a... "

As someone who works in technology, I find this phrase extremely

amusing because almost every time I have heard a tech say this: the

problem was exactly what he said it couldn't possibly be.

I wonder if this holds true for doctors too?

Sincerely,

Lana M. Gibbons

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On 9/14/05, Lana Gibbons <lana.m.gibbons@...> wrote:

> " but he acted like he was completely confident that it couldn't

> possibly have been a... "

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> As someone who works in technology, I find this phrase extremely

> amusing because almost every time I have heard a tech say this: the

> problem was exactly what he said it couldn't possibly be.

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> I wonder if this holds true for doctors too?

Absolutely.

Not only have I been a patient which is par for the course, but I have

dated several as well. Sometimes their closemindedness is

mindboggling.

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