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Has chamomile or chlorophyll been tested on Brachiates?
A close friend of mine has this disease, so I wondered if they have been tried. When I was 17, my boyfriend and I got a staph throat infection. He was treated at the hospital, and I was treated at home. He took two months longer to recuperate on antibiotics than I did. My treatment was with only chamomile tea and liquid chlorophyll with frozen papaya to break up the mucus.
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@divaprincess Are you referring to bronchiectasis, the lung disease? This is not an infection, but a disorder where the bronchioles become stretched and ineffective at clearing mucus. We use a technique called airway clearance to help keep our lungs clear. The infections we are susceptible to require strong antibiotics because they hide deep in the lungs.
As a child I recall being treated at home for sore throats, only going to the doctor if they became severe. Then we were treated to penicillin injections every day for a week. Not my favorite memory, but at least the doctor gave us a lollipop each time.
Even now we try an herbal tea for sore throats before resorting to a throat culture and antibiotics.
Yes bronchiectasis. I read that 3 bacteria were found in this disease and that 2 of them were Staph and Strep. That is why I asked. Thank you for the information.
Actually, the are two most common bacteria that attack our Mycobacteria Avium Complex (MAC) also known as non-tubercular mycobacteria (NTM) and Pseudomonas. Neither is a staphylococcus or streptococcus bacteria.
Maybe you were thinking of what we call the Big3 - which are the antibiotics used to treat MAC/NTM - these are azithromycin, rifampin and ethambutol. All 3 are used together because the bacteria will become resistant and not be killed if just one is used.
Pseudomonas is treated with a different class of antibiotics.