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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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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.
Depending on the nature of the infection you can fucking die by not doing the full course antibiotics. Your anecdote is meaningless
If I’m broke and sick it’s there for me. You take the full course, just skip the Dr and pharmacy.
Not a physician but when I've been prescribed antibs for a similar problem as the OP's poor fish, I've been told to take the full dose for the correct time even if I'm feeling better. The logic is that stopping earlier allows any surviving bugs to develop a resistance to that particular antib – and voila, a superbug is born. So the problem may or may not be taking them for months (that may be a problem, idk) but it incorrect dosing for too short a time is also a serious problem.
Also, how do you know the Dr doesn't tune the dose unless you've seen what they give to every other patient?
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.