"Do follow a 5 day course for any antibiotic to get well because some bacteria may escape the attack and return more aggressively with resistance to the current drug you ate."
Why you must never underestimate the microorganisms? They are microscopic and weak, so why should we worry! Well, let me define a strict rule that microbes follow in one quote-"What doesn't kills me, makes me stronger" and believe me they follow this rule like no other species on earth. These microbes can escape from every extreme conditions from heat, pressure, radiation, toxin to anoxic conditions and keeps a memory of the event as a biochemical or structural modification that could either be an addition of any feature or deletion of any feature which resulted due to the selective pressure of that extreme condition and made the microbe more flexible. So, now it could live in such extreme conditions a little longer and slowly gets adapted to it and starts thriving in that condition thereby colonizing it.
Similar is the case with the antibiotics that you eat. If you miss a single dose from your course of medication, there are higher chances that the bacteria that it was supposed to kill in a period of time may escape from the lethal effect (absolute killing) of the antibiotic which may lead to certain modifications in that escaped bacterial biochemical or structural composition and develop resistance to the antibiotic that you ate. So, in this way the drugs are becoming useless day by day due to increase in resistance and developing a new drug requires more than 10-20 years of research. Most of the diseases nowadays are caused by the so-called multidrug-resistant pathogens (disease-causing microbe).
Antibiotics are only meant for bacteria and it is useless in viral or fungal infections. It could be imagined as a lock and key concept where the key meant to kill a bacteria can only kill the bacteria but not the virus or fungi because we find the unique thing in the bacteria (that belongs in bacteria) and target that particular thing to avoid any cross-reaction with the human body. Unnecessary consumption of antibiotics also leads to the development of resistance.
So, try to aware of everyone and save a life because this resistant bacteria will sure outrun the competence of the drug that we have nowadays and soon we'll be left with nothing but useless candies. And for those who suffer from diarrhoea after taking antibiotics, do eat curd. The reason is such that some antibiotics are broad spectrum type i.e., it kills all the bacteria whether it is useful like our normal intestinal microflora or harmful. So some of your intestinal bacteria get killed as well which leads to diarrhoea but certain antibiotics have lactobacillus culture in it which replenishes your intestinal microflora. However, curd ("with active culture" which is written on packages) is effective as well since it contains more than enough lactobacillus to stabilize your intestine.
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