What will happen if you take the wrong antibiotic?

Answer 1

If you do not take your complete prescription thinking you are cured, your disease can come back worse than it was. If you take too many antibiotics, you can kill the good bacteria that your system needs.

Answer 2

I am no doctor, but I do know that if you abuse antibiotics or even just don't take them on a regular dosing schedule, your body can build up an immunity to the antibiotic, and then it may not work when you need it to later on in your life.

Answer 3

1. it may kill the benefitical bacteria in our body if we take unneccesarly the drugs become less effective .Antibiotics, however,are not effective against cold and flu as these are caused by viruses.

Answer 4

Health wise, not much, antibiotics are basically dead bacteria. They stimulate you immune system which helps you recover from the active bacteria. A misuse might lead to an immunity to the antibiotics though. In other words, that particular antibiotic would simply not work.

Answer 5

Bacterial resistance is the worse outcome of overuse of antibiotics. It means that this antibiotic won't be effective against the same bacteria and will need a stronger antibiotic to cure the same infection.

Use of antibiotic also have cost issues and risk of side effects. Clostridium difficile infection (bowel infection) is related to overuse of antibiotics too.

Answer 6

it will cause ailments

Answer 7

You die.