Sauna and a cold?

a steroid shot would within a few hrs

hmmm thats strange, fever? yellow green mucus? Maybe stronger antibiotic.


As far as sauna goes, it may help open up the nose some. But if its viral, it will just run its course

Yea gonna just get on a stronger antibiotic. I don’t wanna infect others. Green mucus, no fever tho. I’ll just cross my fingers that I’m at least 85% by Saturday.

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Yea gonna just get on a stronger antibiotic

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Worst thing you could do. All you’re doing is increasing your resistance to those antibiotics since you don’t need them and they won’t help.

But you’ll probably get some provider to give you something, you’ll take them, you’ll start feeling better in a few days because the virus has finally “ran it’s course”, and then you’ll swear that it was the antibiotics that did it for you and then that’s the antibiotics you’ll want the next time you get a cold. A cold caused by a virus. It’s a vicious cycle that I’ve seen and heard 100s of times.

Upper respiratory bacterial infections in a healthy, non-smoker that NEED antibiotics:
-pneumonia
-strep throat
-a true bacterial sinus infection (has to have been ongoing at least 7 days, and/or had previously gotten better and then worse again, and/or facial pain that extends into the upper teeth). Accounts for ~2% of all sinus infections and over half of those will resolve spontaneously without antibiotics.

But what the hell do I know, I’m an NP and according to a lot of people on TD I don’t know jack shite.

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Worst thing you could do. All you’re doing is increasing your resistance to those antibiotics since you don’t need them and they won’t help.

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But what the hell do I know, I’m an NP

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well you answered

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What's your advice?