Recently become fashionable investigative reporting on the medical theme. Special medical journalists talk with experts, read a trusted source of information, and then the popularity is due to something on a separate medical theme. Especially appreciated the exposure of or destruction of medical myths. And recently there was a story about the fact that antibiotics injections and pills are equally effective. I have to say - this is nonsense!
Now in more detail. Stories about the same efficiency as it seems to me, was born out of the theme of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These medications like to appoint injections. And they say: "Pierced 10 times". This is stupid. These drugs are prescribed for a long time, and they are about the same in the injection and ingestion. Side effects on the stomach have also approximately equal. Therefore, there is no point once again to make a shot.
It may well be that a misunderstanding has arisen because of the history of treatment of children in clinics. When children are festering infections that can be treated with pills at home, they sometimes prescribe injections. This is also stupid. If you can do without the injections, it is better to do without injections.
So it was before. Now there is a new fashionable nonsense, in which journalists refer to the popular medical tactics switch therapy. This is when a person is in the hospital, and he injected the antibiotic. Then the patient gets better, it is assigned the same antibiotic in tablets and discharged home. Journalists concluded that antibiotics injections and tablets are the same, and better treatment tablets. It is nonsense.
In fact, this approach to treatment is called step antibacterial therapy. Why do it? Because doctors feel sorry for stabbing sick? Not. Because it is cheaper. First of all we are talking about economic benefits. And then remember, there will be less risk of infection or abscesses hospital germs.
Usually a person gets to the hospital, when he was really bad. No sane doctor would not expect that the antibiotic will suck in a sick stomach, that the patient does not vomit or proponosit. Some antibiotics are poorly absorbed, and some apply only when administered intravenously. Therefore I will do injections. If the patient got better quickly, there is a chance that it could be allowed to go home on tablets. This happens only when there is the right antibiotic tablets. But it is not always. So you can not just pick up and replace injections to pills.
