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• CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It helps with the bacterial infection that I get and my sinuses are BLOODY RAW from sniffling for the last week!

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the idea: antibiotics help against bacteria, not against viruses

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    • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but almost every viral infection I’ve ever had…comes with bacterial infection as an additional “feature”

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you have an infection, totally appropriate. The issue is that a good amount of doctors will prescribe antibiotics just to make it seem like they’re doing something for you. While that effect of being treated will help through the placebo effect, the use of antibiotics when it isn’t necessary reduces the amount of time we collectively have for antibiotics to be effective.

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• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is true, antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infection, not viral.

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• icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t antivirals exist though?

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