Thursday, January 01, 2009

If you're pinching pennies and need antibiotics...

From the WRAs Dave Krechevsky:

Beginning Friday, Stop & Shop Supermarket pharmacies will offer free antibiotics to anyone with a doctor's prescription, a program the company says will help maintain the health of its customers in "a difficult economy."

For a full list of the 36 generic antibiotics offered for free by Stop & Shop, visit
www.stopandshop.com/antibiotics.

But be sure to read the whole article. There's some health advice in there that should be considered

"Anything that encourages over-utilization of antibiotics is a bad idea," Simms said Wednesday.

Michael Simms is the director of infectious disease and infection control for Saint Mary's Health System in Waterbury.

Tim White

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tim, sounds like you had a much wilder holday season that I had....

Anonymous said...

Antibiotics destroy "good" bacteria along with the "bad. Eat yogurt after you take antibiotics to replenish the "good" bacteria.