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1. This is a major problem - patients start feeling better and discontinue therapy, which promotes resistance, save partially consumed prescriptions for "if thi
by Fomite 12y ago
1. This is a major problem - patients start feeling better and discontinue therapy, which promotes resistance, save partially consumed prescriptions for "if this happens again", etc.
2. This is also a thing - broad spectrum antibiotics, difficulty in diagnosing, patients wanting something even if their infections are viral, etc. all lead to mistargeting of antibiotics for a number of reasons. Antimicrobial stewardship has become a major part of hospital infection control.
3. The widespread use of antibiotics in livestock. The agricultural use of antibiotics is staggering
- VLM 12y ago"patients wanting something even if their infections are viral" What the market needs is a placebo anti-biotic. One thats totally wasted by resistance so it won't hurt anything, and is reasonably cheap. Give it some nasty digestive system "effects" as a special gift to patients dumb enough to demand a pill against medical advice. Something that is, in fact, an antibiotic, so when they go home and look it up on wikipedia they don't freak out when they find out what a sucrose pill is. Maybe a homeopathic dose of it, so counter-reactions are rare and minimal.