Comments on: Bacteriostatic doesn't mean "ineffective"

By: LG

LG — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:49:52 +0000

That image you linked to doesn't just make baby Buddha cry, it gives puppies and kittens (and everyone else, maybe) horrific nightmares. If you like the corset look, then wear a corset. Gah, the horror.

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:25:38 +0000

omg thats retarted

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:22:22 +0000

Bacteriostatic is a good thing when you want to just stop the growth of the bacteria and not actually lyse the cell wall, as in the case of alot of gram negative bacteria. Doing so will release toxins from inside the cell wall and you'll have alot more problems than you started with. Letting the immune system take down the bacteria.

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How do you handle stepping on someone else’s toes? :: OnThePharm — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:22:05 +0000

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By: dan

dan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:54:43 +0000

Amox not bacteriocidal?

By: RJS

RJS — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:10:22 +0000

Hi,

Why don’t you move to scienceblogs.com. You will have more readers there.

I'm not smrt enough. No, but seriously, scienceblogs.com is owned by Seed magazine which is a real honest-to-goodness print publication. I have written professionally in the past, and I'm really not interested in doing that anymore. Not for a lay audience, anyway.

Besides, I don't think I have enough letters after my name to qualify… :p

Sounds like some stupid shit a first year resident would say.

Some of these folks have been out of school for… quite a while. And they work in a really busy store with folks full of entitlement issues. They spend most of their time just trying to keep their heads above water in terms of script output. They really are just dispensers.

I think I could shoehorn Maslow's heirarchy of needs in here quite nicely if I tried…

Cause really… are you at risk for sepsis? Are you septic? If not, then go all other avenues first. PLEASE.

Let's blow that otitis media out of the water with some moxifloxacin. Rawr!

Well gee, coumadin doesn’t dissolve clots when you have DVT or LV thrombus, so guess it shouldn’t be used either.

Haha.

Btw, when are you going to start blogging?

By: CardioNP

CardioNP — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:11:27 +0000

Well gee, coumadin doesn't dissolve clots when you have DVT or LV thrombus, so guess it shouldn't be used either.

By: greensunflower

greensunflower — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:08:12 +0000

Sounds like some stupid shit a first year resident would say.

Cause really… are you at risk for sepsis? Are you septic? If not, then go all other avenues first. PLEASE.

I work pedi intensive are, usually we go 3rd or 4th generation cephalosporin, or amp, before we head anywhere near the drugs you mention at the end of your post. They are much more toxic, and scary if not used properly.

And you can bet there are pharmacists, nurses, doctors, and others tellings people that with all the scary completely untreatable killer bacteria out there, that we need to treat everyone with our strong more broad spectrum antibiotics that bacteria have as yet little resistance to.

By: Verde

Verde — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:34:17 +0000

Hi,

Why don't you move to scienceblogs.com. You will have more readers there.