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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CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It helps with the bacterial infection that I get and my sinuses are BLOODY RAW from sniffling for the last week!
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
toofpic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s the idea: antibiotics help against bacteria, not against viruses
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, but almost every viral infection I’ve ever had…comes with bacterial infection as an additional “feature”
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Nah, it’s estimated that about 90% of “sinus infections” in adults are actually viral.
Your doctor just gave up and prescribed you antibiotics because you whined or they don’t care about antibiotic stewardship.
Bonus points if they gave you azithromycin (Zpak,) which does basically nothing for bacterial sinus infections but has slight anti inflammatory properties to enhance that placebo effect for you until the viral infection naturally clears.
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Viral infections don’t last over the course of several months.