http://www.walkingpneumonia.org/is-walking-pneumonia-contagious/ A Definitive Guide To Walking Pneumonia Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.walkingpneumonia.org/is-walking-pneumonia-contagious/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Deanna buchanan Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:12:22 +0000 http://www.walkingpneumonia.org/?p=8#comment-9 You state twice in your articles that if you get antibiotics, that you will feel better in a week, instead of a month. But, you didn't clarify that antibiotics only work if you have a bacterial form of pneumonia. If you have the viral form, taking antibiotics will only deplete your body's ability to assimilate nutrition (and won't fight the disease itself) in the gut-and can thus be more harmful-as the antibiotics kill the good bacteria in your digestive tract. People need to also be aware that if they take antibiotics, they need to supplement with a pro-biotic to replenish the good bacteria that the antibiotic removes. You state twice in your articles that if you get antibiotics, that you will feel better in a week, instead of a month. But, you didn’t clarify that antibiotics only work if you have a bacterial form of pneumonia. If you have the viral form, taking antibiotics will only deplete your body’s ability to assimilate nutrition (and won’t fight the disease itself) in the gut-and can thus be more harmful-as the antibiotics kill the good bacteria in your digestive tract. People need to also be aware that if they take antibiotics, they need to supplement with a pro-biotic to replenish the good bacteria that the antibiotic removes.

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