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A recent trip to a doctor to have my ears syringed resulted in a routine weighing on a balance scale—you know, the kind where you are balanced against weights slid along a beam. These are accurate to within 0.5% or less. This is very different to the spring loaded bathroom scales. As metal springs age […]

A recent trip to a doctor to have my ears syringed resulted in a routine weighing on a balance scale—you know, the kind where you are balanced against weights slid along a beam. These are accurate to within 0.5% or less. This is very different to the spring loaded bathroom scales. As metal springs age […] The post Beware Those Bathroom Scales. They lie! appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Don’t be fooled by the ads: “It looks like butter; it tastes like butter… It must be butter.” Chances are it’s toxic filth called diacetyl, which the food industry laughingly calls “butter flavor”. Chronic exposure to diacetyl, may worsen the harmful effects of a protein in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a […]

Don’t be fooled by the ads: “It looks like butter; it tastes like butter… It must be butter.” Chances are it’s toxic filth called diacetyl, which the food industry laughingly calls “butter flavor”. Chronic exposure to diacetyl, may worsen the harmful effects of a protein in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a […] The post Looks And Tastes Like Butter But Is Deadly Filth appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Just a note to say one of the best antibiotics is no antibiotic. And that includes alternatives! A review published in JAMA has found that using antibiotics for ear infections in children is no better than just giving the kiddies pain relief. Antibiotics did produce some slight benefit but this was lost when side effects like diarrhea and rash were factored in. Researchers say the review, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows the merit of a watch-and-wait approach to managing ear infections. Based on their review of more than 100 studies published over the last decade, the researchers were able to quantify the risks and benefits of treatment with antibiotics. They estimated that for every 100 otherwise healthy children with uncomplicated middle ear infections, about 80 could be expected to improve without antibiotics within about three days.

Just a note to say one of the best antibiotics is no antibiotic. And that includes alternatives! A review published in JAMA has found that using antibiotics for ear infections in children is no better than just giving the kiddies pain relief. Antibiotics did produce some slight benefit but this was lost when side effects like diarrhea and rash were factored in. Researchers say the review, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows the merit of a watch-and-wait approach to managing ear infections. Based on their review of more than 100 studies published over the last decade, the researchers were able to quantify the risks and benefits of treatment with antibiotics. They estimated that for every 100 otherwise healthy children with uncomplicated middle ear infections, about 80 could be expected to improve without antibiotics within about three days.