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The differerence there is that an ear infection is a physical problem, easily identified. Psychological problems are by their nature subjective and hard to identify. How can you tell if someone is mentally ill, or just a cry-baby? It's hard.
Being given medacine for an ear infection I see as being completly different and reasonable. You won't be taken them for ever, you're hardly to get addicted to them.
Saying that, medicines in the US seem a LOT stronger than in the UK. I've never heard of anyone getting addiced to ear medicine. What exactly is cleratin.
BTW, I don't really find that the antihistamine (Zirtex is the brand name) helps with the hay-fever much. Although it did clear up my spots.
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Liam: true enough...what i meant about, though, was kind of the 'nocebo' effect someone was talking about. a LOT about medicine is psychological, as well as physical...
...or IS that what i was talking about....*scratches head and shrugs*
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Liam: Claritin is a anti-histamine decongestant. For use when your sinus' are so stopped up you can hardly breath, your eyes are terribly swollen, and other allergic type reactions. Now why someone would perscribe it for an ear infection is beyond me.
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warped: because it is a decongestant, as you said, and that was part of my problem with the ear infection. ALL, i do mean ALL of my sinuses were stopped up badly, my equilibrium was all off, and my ears wouldn't equalize. *shrugs* it helped, anyways.
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