- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I recently had a chest infection, and even though I don't like taking antibiotics I had a 10 day course of Pen & Strep (or something similar!), I asked the prescribing medic if I would be able to ride it out, and she said something like "at my age it would probably turn into pneumonia!"Depending on what you read, the gut takes a fairly long time to recover from antibiotics. I think we will see a wholesale change in how these are prescribed IE more folk will just have to "tough it out" from minor infections.
So they definitely have a place, I guess the problem is it's very hard for a doctor to make a quick evaluation if it is viral or bacterial.