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

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Essentially you need to have a certain safe concentration of the drug in your body for a certain amount of time for it to do its job. Some antibiotics directly kill bacteria and some just stop them from making baby bacteria but either way they don’t work instantly and take a little time to do their job.