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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Part of the problem is due to overly prescribing it which leads to the other part of the problem: people feeling like they’re cured so they stop taking the antibiotics and don’t finish the prescription. This can lead to situations where there’s a tiny amount of bacteria that survived the partial-course of antibiotics and mutate, evolving into a strain of bacteria that’s resistant to the antibiotic that the idiot just stopped taking.
Finish your prescription. If you feel strongly about not doing so talk to your doctor first.
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