I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but . . . I just finished being on isoniazid (INH) for 9 months for latent TB. My main side effect was moderate nausea for a couple of hours most days – only once was it bad enough that I thought I could throw up, but not so bad I had to. I took the med with breakfast and by dinner I was OK. I had very little energy too. I first tried it two hours before breakfast, and that was pretty horrible. The doctor said go ahead and take the pill with a meal, and the nausea was a bit less.
While on the drug, I couldn’t eat cheese, fish, or cured meat (e.g., bacon, ham, pastrami). No alcohol, but then I don’t drink so that was OK. Also no tylenol. That was annoying, because I can’t take NSAIDs either due to crohns.
There are other treatments; e.g., rifampin, which only takes four months. However, it screws with some other drugs’ absorption, so that doses of them may have to be modified temporarily. I decided to avoid the worry of drug dosages (especially for my partial seizure disorder), and go with the longer course of INH.
I must confess I heard about this three days ago, but so much has been going on that I didn’t mention it here. I think I thought I got the info from here.
And totally be trusted to quarantine themselves so’s not to spread their infection, right? Until they are determined by a professional to no longer be contagious, right?
If you are paddling the Petawawa in Algonquin Park , the park rangers maintain a few springs. The water comes out very cold and filtered through millennia of sand deposits. The better maps of the park (Jeff’s Maps are my favourite by far) have these marked. Filling our water bottles from those made for a really pleasant trip.
Otherwise: bring a filter.
If you drink straight out of the river there’s a decent chance you won’t be able to paddle more than 30m from shore for a couple of days, and a solidly non-zero risk of a case of Beaver Fever.‡
‡ Colloquially named for the popular understanding that the parasite in question is endemic to slow-moving water near the dams constructed by our industrious national mascot. Like the capital of Saskatchewan, it’s one of those terms say with a perfectly straight face as a point of national pride.
Driving the news: On Thursday, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told VCU and UVA Health, in a memo obtained by Axios, to immediately stop giving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries to patients younger than 19.
Among those who signed it were a self-described journalist, a certified public accountant, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree “with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology.” The signers include at least 75 nurses, as well as physician assistants. More than 90 did not include any credentials at all.
, the park rangers maintain a few springs. The water comes out very cold and filtered through millennia of sand deposits. 