Omkar's Journal: Throat Infections

Strange how there's no category for "Health" or "Medecine." Maybe I missed it.

Anyway, I've received a message from Aditi's mom, saying she's in the hospital. The poor thing has had a throat infection for a while now. Whenever she was online, she was tired, but I'd keep here awake instead of letting her sleep (like she probably needed to). She's getting rest now, at any rate; her infection didn't respond to oral antibiotics, so she currently receiving IV fluids and antibiotics. I'm damned if I know the difference an IV makes, other than making things seem serious. Perhaps it's a digestion thing.

Thankfully, her mom reports that she should be home tomorrow morning, at ~10AM (IST). Hospitals are scary. I'm glad she'll be out soon, and that it's nothing major, despite all the medical paraphernalia.

Update: She's okay, and is back home. Tired, but okay. I'd like to thank god, but I'm an atheist.

IV antibiotics

[turg]

You can probably use a much stronger antibiotics via IV. There are lots of good microbes in your gut that you don't want to kill.

Re:IV antibiotics

[Omkar]

Yeah, that sounds right. Of course, it's then scary that they escalated to the 'big guns.'