– Why can’t you take all of the pills in an antibiotic prescription in one day, rather than 2 or 3 per day

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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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in terms of the actual question:
It would but it wouldn’t work that way.

the antibiotics are ALREADY in essence doing that, but there is always some bacteria or cells etc. that either are more resistant/ “hidden” etc that won’t be able to be hit by the bacteria at the same time.

This is why the timeframe is important, because you need the antibiotics to be there in your body doing the “shock and awe” for a long enough
Time for it to work and kill them all off.

Essentially it’s kind of like boiling water: you are instantly killing the stuff in the water sure but it takes time for the heat to get all of the water to boil instead of just the stuff closer to the heat source.

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