Towndawg, scullcap tetracycline water pu rification

“TownDawg, scullcap, I was wondering, if you took tetracycline or something like that for the duration of your trip and a few days after, would you need to purify your water? Some of the younger TTers may be on tetracycline for zits and be taking enough not to need water purification.”

“Hmmmm...profolactic antibiotic use. Well, it works with Flagyl for Giardia. The problem is bacteria isn't the only concern for water contamination. Also, Tetracycline isn't effective against enterics. Nope, probably not a good idea.”

“*smiles*”

“Do you know of anything that would work like this?”

“Take a swig of Clorox several times a day.”

“Well, it would have to be an antibiotic that's effective against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria or a combination of antbiotics with that end effect. Then you'd also have to take Flagyl to prevent Giardia. Of course, that would completely wipe out the natural, beneficial flora of your gut so you would have chronic diarhea and cramps anyway. I think it'd be easier just to treat the water.”

“Right toe, mate!
thanks again.”

“We won't even discuss over-use of broad spectrum antibiotics increasing the incidence of antibiotic resistant bacteria.”

“You got me started. Hasn't anybody warned you about that? I can glaze-over anybodies eyes in 30 seconds or less without even trying once I get warmed up. Shame on you!”

“I really only take stuff when it is absolutely necessary. "That that doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."”

“I knew you knew. That's why I asked. Good information. Thanks.”

“You're welcome.”

“Scullcap, did you read the article in the recent Nat'l Geographic on diseases and viruses around the world. Creepy, like it is just a matter of time before we have another pandemic(sp).”

“Ever read the book Virus Hunter? I believe that's the correct title. That gets pretty creepy. Same subject matter and conclusion, written by someone on the 'front line'. He was a field scientist for the CDC and worked his way up to director. Awsome read, but extremely creepy and not for weak stomachs.”

“As some of you know, I had a serious blood infection a year or so ago, where I almost died. One of the creepy things the doctor told me was that since I had already been treated with the STRONGEST strains of antibiotic available to man, should I get any OTHER sort of infection within the next few months (which has passed now), there were not anything they could give me to kill it -- for it (meaning the infection) would be far too strong to succumb to treatment.”

“Is it real info, not fiction? I'd like to read it. Don't know about a weak stomach, although the college animal dissections were enough to discourage any career in medicine. Too bad, because I love the technology aspect, like when I had ultrasounds while pregnant.”

“Yep. It's all Non-Fiction. It's either Virus Hunter or Virus Killer, I don't recall off had. It's been a couple of years since I read it. He was directly involved with a couple of Ebola outbreaks and others. That's where the strong stomach comes in. He gets pretty graphic in his presentation of symptoms, etc.”

“VIRUS HUNTER: THIRTY YEARS OF BATTLING HOT VIRUSES AROUND THE WORLD, by C.J. Peters and Mark Olshaker?

http://www.thenetnet.com/readme/hunter.html”

“Yep, that's it. Thanks TD.”

“"Peters, in this chronicle of his personal encounters with hemorrhagic fever viruses, develops this thesis, and effectively explains the problems of emerging viral diseases. Furthermore, his often understated accounts convey an immediate sense of the dangers of emerging infections more dramatically than would any recitation of numbers and facts."

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no3/b_review.htm

$3.98 from Amazon.com”

“Sorry that you were that sick, TownDawg. What causes a blood infection? Several people in my family have had them, and each of their stories are completely different.”

“I got it for free on loan from the University library. Imagine that, huh.”

“heh.. mine started as a case of poison oak.”

“Try that link again.

WebMD, septicemia”

“Hmmm, one of my relatives got it from digging in the dirt where she got bit by some red ants. One had a paper cut on a finger, and shook hands with a foreigner who appeared to have a cold, at a meeting, and one had an inflamed gall bladder and developed the blood infection around the same time that the gall bladder got bad enough to come out. I don't see any trend other than the fact that bandaids and rubbing alchohol might be more important than I first thought.”

“bingo pathman!!

and it happened soooo fast!.. scary.. the doc said that if i had just "slept and went to the doctor the next morning" as I told my wife.. I would be DEAD.”

“That's what I want to see, skin lesions. You just keep 'em comin'! (j/k!)”

“funny this should come up. In about 30 minutes I have to meet with a sales rep for a blood culture instrument. ;-) So, skullcap's a lab rat too?”

“hey scullcap and pathman....maybe we should have a TT trip for Microbiologists...(i run the clin micro lab at the vet med teaching hospital here at uf)
adios amoebas!”

“scary.. putting several folks of the SAME work/career on the same hike?.. my gosh.. I pity everyone else who goes.. :)”

“lol td....reminds me of meeting three emergency room physicians on llama rama.....campfire talk was interesting!...”

“or "lab rats". You can add AmyG, hikerboy (the bc guy, didn't he used to be here?). I know there must be another or two.”

“

Do I feel left out?.. YES.

:)”

“I don't think I could handle it! Let's stick to ribs and blues.

I don't get the picture.”

“yikes towndawg.........i dont get the pic either....yikes!
~~~”

“Maybe TownDawg wishes he were a chick?”