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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Because it doesn’t work like that.
That really is the ELI5 of it
You can’t drink a week’s worth of water in one go and then not drink anything for another week. You can’t sleep a week’s worth of sleep in one go and then stay awake for another week.
Your body doesn’t work that way.
The dosing of antibiotics has been honed over decades, both the number of pills you take per day and how many days you take them for.
Follow the instructions. Take the correct number of pills in each dose. Complete the whole number of pills/days, even if you start to feel better.
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