My doctor recently prescribed me antibiotics, which I am paranoid about as I have taken a lot recently. Is taking a lot of antibiotics bad for me personally, like I will be less able to fight infection with antibiotics later on?
Or, is it almost like pollution, where people as a whole are just using too much of it for it to be sustainable?
Other way of saying it I guess: Is 5 people taking 1 unnecessary antibiotic each a year the same as 1 person taking 5 unncessary antibiotics a year?
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When you take antibiotics, some bacteria may have a mutation that lets them survive, and if that population grows, you have a resistant bacteria. Those bacteria are bad for anyone, because they’re harder to kill. When you take a lot of antibiotics, the chances of one of the bacteria becoming resistant is higher (the chances of one population surviving all antibiotics exist, and if it happens, they’re super resistant to multiple antibiotics, which is really dangerous and harder to kill it). So it’s bad for everyone, but you could be at a higher risk personally IF you didn’t take the antibiotics as prescribed.
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