As a guess, it seems to me that the most likely reason is that zithromax competes with magnesium and thereby promotes magnesium deficiency. If you carefully supplement with magnesium, my gues is that would reduce the risk of sudden death and also help reduce other risks associated with this drug.

My twenty-two year old son has suddenly begun coming across like a five year old at times. It is not super overt. But he adopts the body language of a child and illogically tries desperately to talk me and his brother into buying him cookies or chocolate milk or whatever. I say “illogically” because he persists even well after I have said “yes”. We are hopeful this means he will be more functional very soon. He tends to be a useless diva. This has gotten better but there is still room for improvement.

When I still had a car, I used to keep peroxide wipes in the car. The only place I have ever seen these is Target. More recently, I discovered a handy spray bottle of peroxide at Walmart. When our spray bottle was recently lost, I bought an empty spray bottle and switched out the cap of a standard peroxide bottle for the spray nozzle. It isn’t a perfect fit and tends to leak, but it is workable. Peroxide breaks down in light. That is why it comes in a dark brown bottle. Otherwise, I would have just poured it into the empty spray bottle and avoided the leakiness.

See, people with CF are prone to osteoporosis, often at really young ages like their teens. And I used to watch a bunch of dinosaur/evolution/science type shows with my kids when we were homeschooling. One of those shows said that bony fish were the origins of life on land because the calcium in the bones allows them to modulate the ph balance of their blood, something fish with only cartilage cannot do. Other fish are reliant on the ocean water to keep their blood chemistry stable. This was a clue to me as to why people with CF are prone to osteoporosis: We are chronically too acid, so the body routinely strips the bones of calcium to modulate the blood chemistry. Human beings can only stay alive if the blood is within a very narrow PH range. So the body goes to great lengths to keep it there.

So I rambled on some more to my son, telling him I cured my history of nose bleeds by taking calcium every time I had one and some point I stopped getting them. I did that because I had done research about how clotting occurs and found calcium was critical to start the cascade of chemical events which leads to clotting. Since we addressed the excess acid issue as a primary issue for both of us, he really should not have severe calcium shortages anymore and should not be prone to nosebleeds anymore. I believe strongly that excess acidity is a primary cause of CF symptoms. It is well known that acidosis is deadly yet that gets ignored if you have CF. There is a form of acidosis that people with diabetes can get which can kill within a very short time, like one to three days. People who are diagnosed with it are typically promptly hospitalized because it is so often deadly. Yet the chronic acidosis of CF which gradually leads to death is largely ignored. This makes no sense to me. Why on earth can doctors not see this obvious pattern? If quick acidosis kills quickly, surely slow acidosis would have the same outcome just slower.

Anyway, my son still has not had a nosebleed in spite of the rigors of being homeless and walking for miles at altitude with serious sunburns and not bathing regularly.

After a miserable night, I woke up somewhat improved but still in crisis. I mentally ran through my options and then went and got a breakfast burrito with potatoes, bacon, cheese, and eggs. The bacon and cheese are both sources of fats I tolerate well and served as a good substitute for butter. On the way back, I walked barefoot through the surf to get some sea salt into me. I didn’t really feel right until after lunch but I was no longer in crisis. I had a surprisingly productive day in spite of how badly it began.

The jetty is a stone structure that goes out into the water, sort of like a pier. It has something to do with guiding ships into the harbor, or so I gather. As you walk out on it and leave behind the land, the air becomes thicker, heavy with water and salt. When we visited here six years ago, we went out on the jetty as a breathing treatment. We went yesterday to help us fully recover from the upper respiratory infection I picked up a few days back, probably from some unwell retiree when I took a shower in the nicer showers. We plan to stick to the cheaper showers in the future. They seem to have a generally younger, healthier crowd.