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Why should you take the entire bottle of prescribed antibiotic for an infection?
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∙ 13y ago
Taking the entire bottle/box/course of prescribed antibiotic medication is necessary in order to make sure that the entire bacterial population that you are targeting is eradicated from your body. In the case that you do not finish the course of medication you might end up leaving a few bacteria which would be able to multiply again and cause you to get sick all over again.
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