• @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    321 day ago

    I can’t speak to animal food, but I know plenty of folks that are too poor for insurance so when they get an infection they take fish amoxicillin. It’s dirt cheap and you don’t need a prescription.

    I don’t recommend it because it contributes to the issue with antibiotic resistant bacteria and I believe most people won’t take it right, but I’ve been that poor with an abscessed tooth. So I took it for a week to kill the infection and saved up to have that tooth yanked. Sometimes you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do to survive.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      820 hours ago

      The antibiotic resistance thing isn’t the only issue. We have FDA regulations for a reason. You will probably be OK, but those drugs are not meant for human consumption for a reason. I wouldn’t take them unless you literally have no other choice.

      This country is so dystopic.

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          20 hours ago

          Very few, if any, of those “awesome” things are in any way unique to the US though.

          I think that’s the thing that Americans need to realize.