Eli5 – why do you take antibiotics as a course and not all at once?

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I’ve just started an antibiotics course which is 4 times a day for 10 days and that got me wondering if they would be just as effective if I took them all and why not.

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You’ve gotten a lot of terrific answers. One thing I want to add is – PLEASE complete your entire course as scheduled. People stopping their antibiotics too early are contributing to antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria becoming more common.

You don’t want to create a whole strain of bacteria in your body that evolved from previous generations that were exposed to “a bit of antibiotics” and were strong enough to survive, as those successor generations will be even more likely to survive.

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