Do you think you would be dead without antibiotics?

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I'm pretty sure I would. Or be alive with one leg.

Yes I once had quinsy.

Mine was after an insect bite too. Within about 24 hours the red was half the way up to my knee on the back of my leg and by the time I got a GP appointment it was almost up to my knee. I didn't know what is was at the time. Now I know what it is I'd go straight to the injuries department because they have antibiotics.

People who have never needed them should shag more and procreate lol.

It's odd mind none of my kids have ever had an ear infection, I was plagued as a kid.

Very dead. Amazing, wonderful things.

Yes, no question.
And about 30 years in my box too.

Yes
kidney stone

perforated bowel

complex surgeries
saepsis

Tbf maybe it's living in a warm non damp house sans 2 full time smokers lol

Oh yes.

Firstly as I’ve never been born as both my parents wouldn’t have made it out of childhood (sepsis and meningitis)

But then I’d have probably died from a bad chest infection and similarly post childbirth infection.

Having seen my child struggle with scarlet fever, becoming so unwell very quickly, I was so very grateful for the antibiotics that made her well again.

I do historical research and the church burial records are incredibly sad.

Yes, I’ve had a lot and I probably wouldn’t be here without them or very ill.

My DM had appendicitis when she was pregnant with me. So yep, pretty grateful for modern medicine!

Not me. But my daughter would be certainly after spending time in hospital with pneumonia as a baby.

thank goodness for them. And my kids all have only been on antibiotics once or twice: whether in my day, I seemed to get them for every little thing.

Yes, pneumonia and sepsis. Maybe had 5 or 6 courses of antibiotics in my (50 year old) life (for ulcerated tonsillitis; post wisdom tooth removal), but that random incident could've been a lot worse without intravenous antibiotics.

Yes, I’ve had sepsis, without the 10 weeks of IV antibiotics I would definitely be dead

Yes, acute nephritis as a 5 year old. Was collected from school by the ambulance and my mum and granny and spent 6 weeks in hospital. I’d have been dead without the penicillin.

Yes because if I didn’t have them to cure an ear infection I would have jumped from a bridge instead.

Yes, I would have died at 10.

Childbirth is an odd one in that for the most part preventative antibiotics are given as standard particularly if any intervention happens so it is one where you aren’t ill because you have them so it is hard to tell. Given the previous death rates it would take out quite a few of us
i have awful tonsillitis when young that also could have developed

Probably, TB a few years ago.

Okay that sounds flippant in hindsight but at the time the pain was intense.

Sorry, strangely I’ve now been allergic to penicillin type antibiotics and I almost died of the first allergic reaction I had to them. The paramedic flying squad was sent to the house to treat me there before being taken to hospital. It was horrible.

Yes. I contracted bacterial meningitis and septicemia at the age of 26. I was given a 30% chance of survival. If it hadn't been for the massive doses of antibiotics given to me by IV, I wouldn't have survived. My chances were slim as it was, without antibiotics I'd have died.

Yes.

Quite possibly- appendicitis.

The other is a what if - I had planned brain surgery. It was a balance of risks between the surgery or brain bleed. I doubt they would have done surgery without antibiotics existing.

You are given antibiotics during the brain surgery. I might have been lucky and not needed them.

Possibly from mastitis, which I had a really nasty bout of.