Gone are those days when medical doctors and scientist were just making guesses when it came to treating people. I mean the days of using the believe of when a person is sick, it is because the liquid in their body are not in equilibrium, so there need to be a leak in blood, or those other nasty experience that people had then. In our world now, it is believe that every medical step that is taken should be rooted in scientific research and proves but is this true? Are so many medical terms scientifically proven, or let's say they just had to implement some of those things for lack of knowing what to do? Well, we could say that because of medical inertia, it has been difficult to discard things that don't work.
One of those things that's debatable is fever. I have seen how people behave when they have a fever, and the next thing on their mind is how they are going to get it reduced. It is no doubt that fever can be uncomfortable for the person as they will suffer from chills which create heat that causes the body temperature to increase. This makes you feel bad, and you start to wonder what to do because you feel very uncomfortable, and that fever reducing medication comes to the rescue but then, we know that our immune system works better when our temperature is high. and the infection is less likely to replicate at a higher temperature.
Before antibiotics, medical doctors try to get patient's temperature increased, so they can fight off infections but with antibiotics and other live saving infection, it has been drastically reduced at every chance seen. It is important to know that while fever is good in helping our immune system fight pathogens, a very high fever can lead to damage of organs.
Everyone with a torn meniscus needs a surgery, is another wrong idea that travels in the medical world. This is because a lot of people believe that the pain will not go away and the injury become worse, if they do not perform a surgery. While there are instances where a surgery is needed, especially when conservative methods fail to work, not all knee torn meniscus require surgery.
Around 1997 and 2008, parents were warned not to feed their children peanut based product until they were about 3 years old because of a fear of developing a peanut allergy later in life, and this was even a problem because around this time, there was a spike in allergy. Things have changed as we now know that early introduction of allergic food to children as early as the age of 6 months old is a good thing as it decreases rate of a future development of an allergy by the child. Instead of avoidance at an early age, introducing the child to the allergy actually helps.
People who experience nocturnal leg cramp taking magnesium as soon as possible is another thing science doesn't support all time. Studies have shown that magnesium and magnesium oxide supplements don't have any effect on Nocturnal leg cramp. If you have a nocturnal leg cramp, then you need to find the cause of the leg cramp and treat the cause.
People who have conjunctivitis treatment themselves with antibiotics at all time is another wrong thing. Not all pink eye are bacteria, and when you get to the hospital, the doctor need to rule out a lot of cases before they can ascertain it is pink eye. There are a lot of viral pink eye that people treat with antibiotics whereas, most cases of pink eyes are viral cases.
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