why should you always finish a course of antibiotics even if the infection has cleared up
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Several people are in an empty pool and none of them know how to swim. You fill the pool up and they all start to drown. Some flail wildly, some sink to the bottom, some do other things. After awhile, most of the people have drowned in the pool, but some are still flailing about managing somehow to stay above water. You drain the pool and the ones that kept their head above water not only didn’t die, but they also now have the knowledge on what to do to avoid drowning in the pool if it happened again. If you had kept the pool filled longer, eventually they would have tired and drowned as well.
Antibiotic courses are principled on that time table.
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