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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Some drugs affect only bacetria who are splitting in two. If one vacteria is just living, it does nothing. So you need long term exposure to be sure the ATB is there in the phase when it splits and that can take days.

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