If you haven’t read my informational post about what antibiotics are and are not, that would be a good thing to read before reading this post. Particularly the section on antibiotic resistance. Click here to read that post.

With that being said, let’s get right into it.

Antibiotic resistance is a real problem! Antibiotics are awesome, an incredibly useful tool in the medical world, and one of the major achievements of modern medicine. They help really sick people get better quickly. But they are not harmless, and they have limitations. Therefore, they must be used cautiously. Like a car driving through your garden, a good thing used inappropriately can be a bad thing. Antibiotics are no different. But often patients beg their doctors to practice medicine inappropriately or without caution. So I’m going to climb up on my soapbox for a few paragraphs; feel free to stick around.