– 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

On a basic level, your body just doesn’t work that way.

* You can’t eat 7 days worth of food all at once and then just not eat for 7 days.
* You can’t sleep for 56 hours once a week.
* You can’t take a week’s worth of medicine all at once.

Lots of processes in the body take time to work, and if you try to “front load” or “shock your system” like that whatever it can’t use right away is wasted.