Many of us use antibiotics as a remedy for their colds, cough, stomach aches but you are using it in a wrong way folks.

Antibiotics treats bacterial infections not viral infections. The difference of these two is very obvious, bacterial infections is from bacteria while viral infections is from viruses. So if someone say that you take a antibiotics to avoid getting COVID-19, stop, don't believe that because he is not a doctor and a doctor would not recommend that either.

Back to the topic.

Why using antibiotics in a wrong way is dangerous?

Because if you have a viral infections and you keep taking antibiotics, it does not treat your viral infections. Most likely it will attack the bacteria in your body which is beneficial or a bacteria that not causing a disease and gives them an antibiotics resistance. After that bacteria that has an antibiotic resistance can pass if to other bacteria in your body and help each other to survive. And the consequences of this is you have might develop a more serious illness that need longer recovery and more expensive treatment and often hospitalization.

Here are the tips to avoid antibiotics resistance

• Make sure you undergone a vaccination. It helps your body to fight the bacteria in your body and lessen the in take of antibiotics.

• Don't drink raw milk and cook your food to avoid food borne bacteria.

• Avoid to pressure your doctor to prescribe you an antibiotics.

• Never take antibiotics if not prescribe by your doctor.

• Never take antibiotics prescribed by another person without a profession in medicine.

• Only take antibiotics if prescribed by your doctor.

These are the tips that will help you to not develop a antibiotics resistance bacteria.

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