Posted by Übermenschİ at 128.252.192.192 on March 25, 2004 at 11:10:24:
In Reply to: I hate being sick posted by Sinatraking on March 25, 2004 at 10:48:55:
Good lord, do you work (slave?) for a plantation owner? Another case of an American being overworked instigating health troubles and overall productivity loss.
Antibiotics won't fix it for a few reasons, the underlying reason being that bacteria evolve much more quickly than multicellular creatures due to short generation times and rapid reproduction. Doctors have also been overprescribing antibiotics for years allowing bugs to become better acclimated to them and also people simply demand antibiotics for no reason (for, say, a viral infection which antibiotics cannot help). Finally, the antibiotics users oftentimes do not complete the full treatment and stop taking the drug once they "feel better" leaving the stronger bugs to continue proliferating.
Get to the doctor, it'd be terrible for you to lose your hearing because of some treatable infection. If your boss doesn't like it, tell him to sod off because you need to be treated and you may be contagious.