unsupervised use of antibiotics is how you end up with superbugs just saying
Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury to look out for the community when they’re sick and can’t afford to see a doctor for medication.
Maybe the neoliberals should have thought of that before making healthcare impossible to afford.
You don’t need supervision, you just use it for a short time, like a prescription.
Perfect example of why it's better to be supervised if possible. I'm not a doctor, but every human antibiotic script says "take the full course, do not stop early unless there are side effects/an allergic reaction, and do not skip any doses." Also tuning the dose is best done by a doctor/nurse.
Critical support to anybody self medicating under capitalism, but there is a reason medical school takes so much time and effort, and it's because this shit is really complicated.
I’ve never had a doctor tune the dose, they just give me the same broad spectrum. Your making a mountain out of a molehill. When people take it for months, yes resistant bacteria happens, but following rules is pretty simple.
people take it for months, yes resistant bacteria happens, but following rules is pretty simple.
Drug resistant bacteria develop when you stop taking antibiotics too soon. Antibiotics (typically) have a logarithmic effect, so that the last bacteria to die are the ones that are the “strongest.” If you stop too soon these are the bacteria that survive and reproduce - the ones that do not respond to antibiotics.
You shouldn’t just take antibiotics willy nilly because 9 times out of ten they do nothing, taking them just gives you something to do to pass the time while your viral infection clears. People are generally shit at judging if they have bacterial vs viral infections.
The other posters are right that feedlot use of antibiotics is a problem, but drug resistant bacteria happen for other reasons too.
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