re: A rant about medical practices and pharmaceuticals

Don’t go to the doctor

Eat the dirt

Drink the raw milk

You’ll DIE OF DIPTHERIA and you’ll BE HAPPY.

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Dr. B by chance????

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Nope

I would read medical medium and consider celery juice and a liver cleanse to get that crap out of her body.

No worries, thought I’d try to help as we’re with the same pediatrician family at Greenvale.

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With anything drug related each individual has to feel out the pros and cons. Are the potential side effects worth treating whatever condition you are facing?

After practicing pharmacy 30 years, the further away you stay from a pharmacy, the better. I'd personally take thyroid or insulin replacement and not much else.

The large majority of healthcare don't care if you live or die. They follow protocol handed down from insurance and you do x,y and z no thought involved. Basically automatons. I would take an AI doctor over most general practitioners at this point, no difference besides an AI doing a better job at diagnosis.

My daughter got the chicken pox vaccine and had a mini chicken pox breakout a week later. Even though I found literature on this being a side effect the pediatrician said it was IMPOSSIBLE!
I just can’t believe science no longer allows dissent. It blows my mind. Don’t trust your doctor unless you know they actually care. You are just an insurance payout to majority of them.

I took Flovent for many years with no side effects. I am so sorry about your little girl. My opinion is go to a pediatric pulmonologist or a pulmonologist for a second opinion. No more pediatricians. Just my opinion. Good luck and God bless.

Flovent is being discontinued this year, although there’ll likely be generics available.
Flovent for a 5 year old? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a prescription for that for that age. Not that it can’t be, but it doesn’t seem like it would be first line.
Why would a doctor even prescribe this for some lingering effects of an upper respiratory infection? It’ll eventually resolve. I would think that a steroid inhaler would be for some chronic condition such as asthma.
I see lots of prescriptions for children for short-term oral steroids such as prednisolone syrup for typically no more than 3 or 4 days.
Inhaled steroids such as Flovent are minimally absorbed. But it’s not zero absorption. And some people are more sensitive to steroid side effects. To them, it probably doesn’t take much to set off the side effects.
I think I’d take her to another pediatrician and get a second opinion.

I'm sorry about the experience.

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we're still dealing with oppositional defiance. My wife is a saint and has more patience than I could ever muster. Still though, this morning, my daughter disrupted the entire morning routine over some irrational issue.

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This may be developmentally normal as this could describe many, or even most, kids that age. My daughter is 8 and is still defiant and difficult when hungry or tired, so many mornings. This morning it was about her forgetting how to open her eyes.

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outside of good surgeons

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The irony of this is that the reality is depending on their specialty, that's what they will be good at.

The overuse of corticosteroid inhalers for what people call reactive airways disease for children is becoming more rampant. People treat medicine as a "for service job" because if for every patient that's okay with being told "be patient it'll go away" there's 9 other families bitching up a storm about that and wanting something. Antibiotics for a viral infection. Etc.