Mary Fisher wrote:
"DM" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:

Symptoms can disappear very quickly, but the bacteria causing the
infection are still there in significant numbers. For example one of my
kids had am eye infection, two doses of antibiotics and 4 hours later all
visible symptoms had effectively disappeared, but it would be
irresponsible to then stop taking the treatment.

Any health professional that tells you otherwise is giving poor advice. In
some cases I could see them telling you to take for a minimum of x days
and then if you are all clear stop taking them. But the simple statement
you make above strikes me as dangerous advice.

We've been with the same practice for very many years and have full
confidence in their advice and the way they keep up to date with research.

But I'm not a doctor, perhaps you are ...

As it happens I am :-) ... but not in a medical capacity.

In any case the reduction of bacteria by use of antibiotics is more of a
scientific matter. Doctors are not always good scientists, especially GP's.

I left the option open where perhaps your doctors are not totally wrong but
your interpretation of what they mean may be questionable.

cheers

David