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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...Why am I even jumping in to this?

Oh, because I was a broke single young mom.

Look, I don't think OP was particularly condescending. She acknowledges that these are good moms trying their best. It IS damn difficult to face the world and raise your child when the world is trying so very, very hard to tell you you're garbage, and I can think of so many ways I tried to over-compensate as a result.

Plus, my access to care of any kind seemed so damn tenuous, and like one dismissal was going to doom us to not being able to survive. That zeal for research felt absolutely necessary to me. So yeah, it doesn't surprise me that OP sees this attitude within this particular demographic. [/quote]

I think research is essential as is listening to your Doctor. The OP was specific about parents not giving their kids needed antibiotics or a complete series of antibiotics because the news is talking about people being prescribed too many antibiotics. It does nto sound like the example she was giving were parents who have said what I have said, "Hey, the news is talking about antibiotics are being over prescribed. What is about this illness that makes you think I need to take antibiotics and are there any alternatives to antibiotics? What are the pros and cons to the other course of treatment?"

If my Doctor can give me a good explanation for why antibiotics are needed, strep rarely heals itself and can lead to these other nasty illnesses if not properly treated with the following side effects, then I take the antibiotic. If the doctor says, there is an alternative and it means a longer recovery and potentially feeling worse. If you see these symptoms, come back and we will need to do antibiotics, I might go no antibiotics.

I don't think the issue is that people are researching, but that people are using questionable research (in the case of vaccines) and news stories (antibiotics) to ignore their Doctor.

And that leads to kids hospitalized or the adults. I feel worse for the kids because they have no choice.

I don't think it is just younger people, I think that there are a lot of folks who don't trust their Doctor due to negative experiences and a rise of bad information being made more readily available due to the internet and social media. [/quote]

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