Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics
by sp332 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @11:03PM
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Since most sinus infections are viral, antibiotics probably did nothing at all.
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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:35AM
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Correct. Northward of 90% of all URTIs (Upper Respiratory Tract Infections) are caused by viruses and never develop secondary bacterial infections. [1]
If you have a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection you usually feel much less well than when the average viral infection.
The usually route of antibiotics appearing to work is that a course of antibiotics is usually 10 days, by which time you're mostly over the viral infection anyway.