Your roommate recently got an amoxicillin prescription from the Health Center for their sinus infection-like symptoms, and you see that he don’t take it particularly regularly. In fact, he throws out the half-empty bottle when he’s feeling better. You call him reckless, and your roommate gets indignant. Give your roommate three justifications for your charge of recklessness.
Amoxicillin treats bacterial infections. Antibiotics will work
in our bodies when the number of medicines kept in our body at a
constant level. We need to continue this drug until the full
prescribed amount finished.
If we stop the medicine in between without completion may lead
to
-More bacterial growth
-Turn the bacterial infection again and not work for future
infection
-Risk of developing drug-resistant bacteria.
Your roommate recently got an amoxicillin prescription from the Health Center for their sinus infection-like symptoms,...
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