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Viruses can associate with glycoproteins on gut bacteria which can stabilize and and protect the virus, so while antibiotics don't directly act on the virus, ta
by pazimzadeh 10y ago
Viruses can associate with glycoproteins on gut bacteria which can stabilize and and protect the virus, so while antibiotics don't directly act on the virus, taking antibiotics could in principle prevent viral infection.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754087/
- wfunction 10y agoSigh, I knew someone was going to nitpick on the bio part. I was not trying to give a biology lesson here. I just said you should be surprised if you get an antibiotic prescribed for a viral infection. Yes, you really should be surprised. That doesn't mean you have to declare the doctor incompetent. It just means you should be surprised and act accordingly. Which means you have to confirm that it's correct, to make sure the doctor is not totally screwing up. Because chances are decent the antibiotics are useless. The chances don't need to be 100% for you to be surprised and to show it too.