why should you always finish a course of antibiotics even if the infection has cleared up
In: Biology
ALWAYS FINISH YOUR ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION!!!!
This is never stressed enough. Antibiotics kill bacteria, but if you stop once you feel better as most people do, that doesn’t mean all bacteria are dead, just that there is a small enough population so that you are not symptomatic .
If you stop, in this small surviving population, via natural selection, will arise a higher percentage of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.
Not finishing causes resistance. Resistance is a horrible problem that is exponentially increasing. It is estimated that deaths related to resistance will be higher in prevalence than cancer by 2050.
So PLEASE finish any prescriptions you get.
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