[Maru]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

My wife has a friend who drives us nuts, she gets her daughters antibiotics for EVERY little thing. I'm convinced she'd get them for a sprained ankle. And then after she gets them, half an hour after the first dose she'll be like "Oh yes, _____ feeling much better now, see the antibiotics must have helped" ... when that's not even how they work! It's literally impossible that it's the antibiotics... the capsule probably hasn't even digested yet!

That's not a good idea, because we will build immunity the more they are used. To abuse them like that, she is doing more harm than good.

My doctors like to give me antibiotics for the flu, just in case it's bacterial even when they already know what is going around is viral. So I usually don't fill it.