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deedee · Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

does anyone know if you can buy penicillin over the counter for transmitted-type deseases? A girl caught something (she`s not sure how!! hmmmm) and needs some anibiotic-type medicin to make the discomfort go away.

Delicious · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 55 Location: Hebei China

You can buy amoxcicillin and amoxcyllin capsules over the counter. They are broad spectrum abtibiotics and therefore can be used for a large range of conditions. I've used them for chest infections and they work fine. There are a few "fake" antibiotics around, so if you find that you aren't "getting better" in a few days you should switch brands. I have found the ones that are made in Hong Kong to be the best. if your condition persists you should bite the bullet and see a doctor as you don't want to take too many courses of antibiotics.

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

use this website to find what she Cool

needs and go to your local pharmacy. http://drug.esaurus.org/

I'd recommend seing a doctor if things don't get better within a few days.

journeyeast · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:25 am Post subject:

Dont waste time.. Get some Cipro..

cujobytes · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: >

What's the medical term for or active ingredient in Cipro?

latefordinner · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 973

Be verrry careful, there are a lot of bogus pharmaceuticals about. A few of us have had persistant infections because of this. If something doesn't work, try something else.

Talkdoc · Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 696

jeffinflorida · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject:

True story that happened to me this week. I have been sick for the past four weeks. It comes and goes but lately it is the coughing and the mucus coming out when I spit (the color is darkening). Typically at home some Cipro, Bioxin, or other broad spectrum anti-biotic works.

So I go to a local pharmacy and buy two boxes of "Amoxycillin" capsules, 250mg made in Hong Kong.

I read a post on another thread and the poster warned me about fake drugs. So I went to the manufacture�s WWW site and found no listing that they made this drug. The Internet said like 50% of all OTC drugs are counterfeit.

So I take them. 2 capsules. About 9pm. By 11 pm I was so wired I could not get to sleep until about 4 am. However, my sinuses were completely dry and open. Hmmm. A quick search on the Internet says that many times anti-biotics are filled with sudefed or something similar.

What ever was in my box of "The United Laboratories LTD" "Amoxycillin" was not an anti - biotic.

A fellow at the university told me to go to the hospital pharmacy and I would do better.

Scary huh? I'm just happy it wasn't rat Poisoning .

tofuman · Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 937

If I understand your post, you knew before you took the pills that the supposed manufacturer did not make such pills, yet you still took them.
That is scary.

jeffinflorida · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Tofuman,

Back in the late 70's I took lots of pills that were supposed to be QUAALUDES and who really new what was in them...

By the way i did get an email from the Hong Kong maker who directed these queations to the Mainland office - no reply yet.

By the way, do they make Quaaludes in China? RORER 714

deedee · Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

The girl in the initial post has HPV (genital warts). Suggested treatment from the hospital has been to cut (freeze) the warts. does anyone know of a medicine-based treatment. Anything other than the very expensive creams which are self-administered?

tofuman · Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 937

There are several approaches to treatment. Go to a medical university and pick up a good book such as Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, edited by Tierney, McPhee, and Papadakis. You could also try a Merck Manual.

HPV has an uncomfortably close relationship with some types of cancer, so it is not something with which to fool around. Being a virus, antibiotics are useless in treating HPV.

beck's · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 426

I would never trust antibiotics or any other form of medication in China or in any other part of the developing world. I had a Canadian doctor prescribe various antibiotics for chest and intestinal infections before I came to China. I had the prescriptions filled in a Canadian pharmacy and brought the medicine with me. I also brought needles with me, just in case. I'm a bit paranoid, I admit it, but with these things I always feel it's better to be safe than sorry.

I would suggest telephoning your western doctor at home, describing the symptoms to him and getting him to send you the medicine. You will need to convince him that Chinese medicine is dangerous or unreliable at best. It's all fine and good buying a pirated CD but buying fake Avelox (for bronchitis) is another matter.

Somehow burning off genital worts sounds a bit sketchy.

NorbertRadd · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:25 am Post subject: what a guy told me

A man who'd been in the American navy disclosed to me that he had his warts burnt off but this was back in the 80s.

I used 18% undiluted iodine to get rid of some warts that I had on my hand.

PLEASE: there is no connection between the two wart stories.

medicine comes in ahead of burning here:

http://www.genitalwartsonline.com/overall_results.htm