I would take antibiotics when there’s an infection that I’m battling. When I was younger, I would get ear infections quite frequently and I was prescribed amoxicillin. I think that’s the one that also takes like bubble gum… Anyways, most recently I had to experience swollen tonsils and lymph nodes, and that’s a sign of your body fighting off an infection. The swollen tonsils made it really difficult to eat and potentially could cause problems with breathing since it caused my airway to decrease. I was prescribed penicillin for this. This was the first time I had taken penicillin and I was really nervous because I know a lot of people are allergic and I really didn’t want to find out the hard way. Every time there’s infection and antibiotics are prescribed, I take them because that’s always what I’ve known. I don’t think I would ever not take the medication because it obviously helps your body recover quicker than maybe if you were to let it figure itself out naturally. I definitely understand that there can be some side effects to taking antibiotics such as getting another illness or even bacterial resistance, but I think with even that in mind, it’s worth it to treat the infection. The other outcomes in my mind are less likely to occur and if that were to occur there could be treatment to solve that.
