A 21-year-old member asked:
Are there herbal supplements that can treat a mrsa lung infection?
3 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in
Dr. Henry Bloomanswered
Family Medicine 50 years experience
No: This is a potentially life threatening infection that requires treatment with specific antibiotics that will treat the specific mrsa, and requires close medical supervision.
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Dr. Kevin Considineanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
No: I am not aware of anything that is really effective against MRSA except commercial disinfectants and good hygiene and using a wound ointment called mupirocin.
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Dr. Kevin Considineanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
And of course for lung infections you would have to use IV vancomycin or another such antibiotic to actually treat such an infection.
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Are there herbal supplements that can treat a candidiasis lung infection?
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Dr. Kevin Dausanswered
Obstetrics and Gynecology 39 years experience
Licorice Root: Licorice root (glycyrrhiza glabra) helps with fungal and yeast infections. Also try any herb or vitamin that boost immunity like vit d.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
Are there herbal supplements that can treat a pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection?
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Dr. Michael Depietroanswered
Pulmonary Critical Care 37 years experience
No: Pseudomonas pneumonia is a severe potentially life threatening infection, it require antibiotics and support to care for. There is no scientific evidence to support any herbal supplement that improve outcome.
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