Sickness

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Originally Posted by Easy 6

The war against antibiotics has been a strange trip for me here... while I well understand that overuse is counter-productive, for years and years when I've gotten severe chest colds thick with hacked up glowing green gunk?



Different docs always give up a 5 day antibiotic pack for that, and its been working for years... they've never had an adverse affect I can point to, then again I only get truly sick about every 2 years or so



Antibiotics infrequently used are some of the best illness cures ever made

It's just a bit dangerous in the long run is all.

There isn't much out there that can reliably kill 100% of any bacteria. So you take a round of antibiotics and it kills off most of the bacteria that's causing you problems, but not all of them. Those that survive are now better equipped to fight off the antibiotics that you used, then they replicate and then their "offspring" are also better equipped to deal with said antibiotics. That can potentially create some superbugs that can't be cured by antibiotics in the future.

Anyone with more knowledge on the subject can feel free to correct me but that's the explanation I've been given..