I’m assuming it has to do with making sure you get any straggler bacteria, but wouldn’t taking all the pills at once shock and awe the little buggers and force them to surrender?
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Antibiotics work by creating an environment in your body that is unfriendly to specific kinds of bacteria. They then keep the environment unfriendly to bacteria until the bacteria that is dangerous to you has their population reduced below a point where they can reproduce and harm you.
Even once the antibiotics are there it takes time for the bacteria to die, for your immune system to attack the bacteria and the population to be reduced to the point that the bacteria will be effectively extinct inside your body instead of being reduced a lot, then recovering the population with more resistance to the antibiotics.
There’s another problem too: Antibiotics aren’t always super gentle on the body. While not toxic if you take them as prescribed and your body only has to deal with a normal dosage you might poison yourself by taking a large amount at once.
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