Why do doctors sometimes recommend treatments, which are not the best, to put it mildly, or which can be outright dangerous?
Take the practice of treating a common cold; doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics, as well as nose drops, even though, from the purely medical point of view, those are dangerous practices.
Antibiotics are useless against viruses, but even if they can help against opportunistic infections, the price is simply too high, as they kill the beneficial flora in the gut and in other places. According to some medical authorities, most of our immunity is based on a healthy gut and that means beneficial flora there.
What is the best way then of protecting yourself from opportunistic infections? The natural remedies, such as the essential oils, are cheaper and more effective than antibiotics, they do not have any side effects, bacteria cannot develop resistance to them, plus they are also effective against viruses. I apply a few drops to a small piece of cloth and attach it to the top of my chest, this way I can breathe the vapors, which enter all the way into the lungs. Some essential oils can also be taken internally.
As one can well imagine, it is simply too much trouble to do something like this in a hospital setting, as it would not fit into the pattern of an arms-length relationship of an official setting.
Plus some patients expect nothing less than a "magic bullet", they may well be very skeptical if asked to breathe essential oils.
And even though, at least theoretically, doctor can recommend natural remedies for home use, it would look odd, since it is done differently in hospitals.
But, in any case, the commercialized medicine simply cannot start recommending natural remedies, as there is no money to be made there.
Nose drops is another treatment of choice one would get from commercialized medicine if he is trusting enough to seek treatment for a congested nose.
The purpose of a treatment should be the removal of bacteria from the nasal passages and keeping them unobstructed. The best way to do it is to flush the nasal passages with a warm saline solution; this removes the mucus and flushes out the harmful bacteria.
But the nose drops do not do anything of it, they only shrink the tissues. After a few applications, the tissues apparently develop resistance to the effects of those drops, you then need to apply them more frequently, otherwise the tissues stay swollen and you simply cannot breath through the nose. Even after you have recovered from a cold, you would be forced to continue using those drops, since this is the only way to prevent swelling of tissues in the nasal passages.
Nose drops pose a very serious danger to small children, since they cannot breathe through the mouth, small children are obligatory nose breathers; if a child had the nose drops applied, the tissues would inevitably develop resistance and stay swollen, he would not be able to breathe, it would then be necessary to sedate him and insert a breathing tube or even put him on a breathing machine.
The risk of a serious infection developing in sinuses is very high when nose drops are used. This is because the bacteria stays in the nasal passages and it keeps multiplying, with infection propagating into the sinuses.
Sinus infection is a very serious matter, it can even result in an eye infection, which is a medical emergency.
The need for a drastic intervention is very much possible, it can be as invasive as drilling through the bone and irrigating the sinuses with antibiotic solution.
And even though flushing the nasal passages with a warm saline solution is a very simple procedure, it cannot be easily done in the hospital setting, drops are much easier to administer. But it is totally different if you are recovering from cold at home.
Another dangerous practice is to prescribe medication to reduce fever, you can read about it in my other article about how to recover from common cold.
This article represents the personal opinion of the author.
Oleg Chmelev is the webmaster of http://www.tuneMind.net. That site deals with the issues of intellectual performance and other things
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