@LukeAlmighty @LukeAlmighty @nosleep there was that but also it's pretty easy to pickup a parasite and go years, decades, or even your entire life without realising.
A lot can also cause weird and minor symptoms or no symptoms at all and be difficult to test for. They can complicate sickness and also rarely is it the first or even third thing a doctor will even think to look for.
Hell, just going outside to check the mail and being too lazy to put on shoes can be enough to pickup a parasite. Or maybe it's raining and you step in a mud puddle...
Actually, ya know what? On my next family doctor follow-up visit I think I'll mention that to him. I often times feel kind of lethargic like I'm a little sick and over the past about 8 months or so I've noticed I get sick or get infections a lot easier than I used to.
I just kind of choked it up to not really "exercising" my immune system over the past 3 or so years with the facemasks and frequency hand washing/sanitizing I have to do for work but there might be more to it...
It'd probably be cheaper to just prescribe a broad spectrum antiparasitic to take than to do all of the tests to check for something.
Although, one worry I'd have with widespread routine antiparasitic medication is the possibility for things to mutate and develop resistance.
However, most of the bacterial resistance is due to people not actually taking the full round of antibiotics because they feel better ¾ of the way through. Plus, multicellular organisms reproduce and mutate way less frequently than single cells like bacteria.
It is still possible. For example, if many people in a neighbourhood have pets and all of them use the same flea prevention (e.g. Frontline Plus) then the fleas will usually mutate to become resistant to the presides in it. However, it's pretty much only limited to that area and once the pet owners realise it's not effective and switch to something else the fleas will lose the resistance and it'll naturally correct itself as different pet owners choose different products and now there's a wide range of pesticides in use in the neighbourhood.
Exterminators usually have the same issue and solve it by rotating the particular pesticide they use to spray.
I'm sure parasites would be similar. As long as the same medication isn't used everywhere and the medication used is rotated then it should be fine.
A lot can also cause weird and minor symptoms or no symptoms at all and be difficult to test for. They can complicate sickness and also rarely is it the first or even third thing a doctor will even think to look for.
Hell, just going outside to check the mail and being too lazy to put on shoes can be enough to pickup a parasite. Or maybe it's raining and you step in a mud puddle...
Actually, ya know what? On my next family doctor follow-up visit I think I'll mention that to him. I often times feel kind of lethargic like I'm a little sick and over the past about 8 months or so I've noticed I get sick or get infections a lot easier than I used to.
I just kind of choked it up to not really "exercising" my immune system over the past 3 or so years with the facemasks and frequency hand washing/sanitizing I have to do for work but there might be more to it...
It'd probably be cheaper to just prescribe a broad spectrum antiparasitic to take than to do all of the tests to check for something.
Although, one worry I'd have with widespread routine antiparasitic medication is the possibility for things to mutate and develop resistance.
However, most of the bacterial resistance is due to people not actually taking the full round of antibiotics because they feel better ¾ of the way through. Plus, multicellular organisms reproduce and mutate way less frequently than single cells like bacteria.
It is still possible. For example, if many people in a neighbourhood have pets and all of them use the same flea prevention (e.g. Frontline Plus) then the fleas will usually mutate to become resistant to the presides in it. However, it's pretty much only limited to that area and once the pet owners realise it's not effective and switch to something else the fleas will lose the resistance and it'll naturally correct itself as different pet owners choose different products and now there's a wide range of pesticides in use in the neighbourhood.
Exterminators usually have the same issue and solve it by rotating the particular pesticide they use to spray.
I'm sure parasites would be similar. As long as the same medication isn't used everywhere and the medication used is rotated then it should be fine.
@sjw @nosleep
In my case, she just ordered some dog stuff, multiplied dose by weight, and according to prescription, I took it twice 2 weeks apart.
Animal drugs tend to be more effective and available without prescription, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE HIGHER CHANCE OF SIDE EFFECTS.
But if you have a doctor that you trust, feel free to talk it over with him. I just don't have the luxury.
@LukeAlmighty @LukeAlmighty @nosleep oftentimes it's the same medicine prescribed to humans just without the "for humans and healthcare" price tag.
@LukeAlmighty @sjw @LukeAlmighty @nosleep there is the small risk factor of animal meds not being held to quite the same level of safety regulations. the stuff you get could be expired/degraded. i'm willing to risk it and by fish antibiotics
Ivermectin FTW!