BACTERIA DO NOT CAUSE COLDS AND FLU.
When your antibiotic is properly matched to your particular type of BACTERIA, the medicine usually flattens your SYMPTOMS within 48 hours. If you haven’t improved within three days, you may have a mismatch or there may be something else going on. In that case, check with your doctor’s office just to be safe.
When the antibiotic kicks in and you begin to improve, do NOT stop taking your medicine until every last pill has been swallowed. After the first few days, the bacteria have been knocked down but not out and will stay busy adapting to your partial dose of antibiotic. Hit them with a full blast so you will bounce back but they won’t.
There isn’t much to do with a virus-induced cold except tough it out and use common sense: lots of rest, lots of fluids and lots of hand washing.
Never badger your doctor for a prescription unless you know you have a bacterial infection like pneumonia or bronchitis. Overuse of antibiotics has created nasty new medicine-resistant bugs that are increasingly difficult to kill and bugs that have no conscience about killing you. Gesundheit!
Be well. Breathe beautifully.
