Won’t antibiotics do less harm to our beneficial gut bacteria if it is injected directly into the body rather than go through our digestive tract?
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If you keep livestock, most antibiotics are injected. But it’s not like one injection and you’re done. It’s usually either IM injection 2x day for a week or subq injection every other day for a week. I have to assume that your answer lies in that fact. It is rare for doctors to prescribe medicines for home use that have to be administered by injection, especially when oral administration works just fine. I am not sure if that is more because patients are not comfortable administering injections or because thr medical industry as a whole does not trust patients to do it.
I will say that when you administer an antibiotic injection to an animal, it very clearly hurts like a motherfucker. I usually do it in the shoulder and the animal will cry and often stumble for a few steps when they try to walk. A lot of people are huge babies about injections anyway, can you imagine if you had to get several shots like that every time you get sick?
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