Flipping the witch switch.

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ALWAYS finish your antibiotics, even if you don’t think you’re sick anymore! NEVER give your antibiotics to other people, there is no guaruntee they will have any effect, or the same effect, and without a full course, will not help them even if it is the right medicine for the job. 

However, don’t stop taking the antibiotics!

This is what you do instead - start eating a lot of stuff with probiotic properties. Plain yoghurt, greek yoghurt, Actimel, yakult, whatever brand your probiotic yoghurt comes with, kefir, diary, pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, tempeh, kombucha, fibre-rich fruit and veg, cottage cheese, etc. Google what you have available in your area.

If you don’t like the options in your area, take probiotic supplements with your antibiotics, and then for a couple weeks after the antibiotics have run their course. Just don’t go insane with these, keep to the dozing advice on the label!! That’s the reason I prefer food in this case - it’s really hard to overdose on cabbage, but overdosing on supplements can happen. But if you’re smart about it, both options are good.

The above will help the bacteria in your gut recover and keep you feeling good, while the antibiotics are fighting for your health.

*obviously if you feel something is really wrong and you’re getting very bad reactions after taking the antibiotics, hit up your pharmacy/gp/prescriber/doctor to see if something else isn’t happening, like an allergy or sensitivity to an ingredient. Sometimes a different prescription is the answer.

Charlie didn’t even find the ticket in his first bar, or his second. His first bar, his birthday present, was a dud, and he even failed to enjoy it like normal because he dared to hope, just for a moment, that he might actually be lucky enough to get the one. Later, he is lucky enough to find a dropped 50p piece in the street, and goes to buy a chocolate bar for himself. Finally holding a treat that is all his, he wolfs the thing down, stopping only long enough to realises that he didn’t get lucky and win a Golden Ticket. It’s only on the third bar that he gets it, and, smelling blood in the water, the shopkeeper tells him to immediately go home and not tell a soul that he has it, knowing what people might do to this small starving boy if they find out what he has.

And Wonka knows! He knows he done goofed! He realises almost immediately that the people who have been attracted to his lottery, who have stacked the decks in their favour, are awful, cruel, entitled people! Augustus Gloop, the glutton, doesn’t care what placed in front of him so long as it’s food - and the first obstacle? A room where everything is a kind of sweet. Violet’s gum-chewing is excessive, but the modern film adapts this into a more realistic and sinister flaw - overcompetitiveness. It’s not just that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum for months, it’s that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum, weeks after its taste is gone, whether it is socially acceptable or not, just to break a record. So when Wonka promises a new treat, a personal favourite of one of the kids, but says it’s not ready yet and you can’t have it, of course Violet seizes it, because damn the consequences, she will be the first to try it. Veruca is shown a collection of unique animals, and immediately declares that she wants one, because she’s always had the bragging rights and luxury rare items. And when Mr Wonka refuses to sell? She steals it, because dang it, she will have that golden goose/trained squirrel! Mike Teevee, in his hubris, mutilates himself almost beyond recognition because he had to challenge Mr Wonka’s outlandish claim of transmitting physical objects via television. Charlie was the perfect heir, not because he was humble and poor, but because he had the wonder and appreciation for the treats Wonka made but also the sense and caution not to risk messing with the many dangerous things in an active factory. If the lottery was more fair, maybe Charlie would have had more stiff competition, but as it stands, Charlie is almost the poster boy of ‘won by doing nothing’.

Sorry, got sidetracked