CATEGORIES

  Home
  Alternative Medicine
  Dental
  Diet & Fitness
  Diseases & Conditions
  General Health Care
  Men's Health
  Mental Health
  Optical
  Women's Health
  General

If you take antibiotics for 4 mos, then stop, then start again 1 mo later, will your body build a resistance??


Question: I have been on minocycline (for acne on my back) since Sept of this year. During the month of Dec I was bad about taking them, but have decided to start taking them regularly again in Jan. I am concerned that because of this broken schedule, my body will build a resistance to the antibiotics.
Answers: You body probably won't, but the bacteria will. What happens is that most of the weaker ones die out, and then you stop taking the pills, and the surviving strong ones reproduce. When you start taking the pills again, it won't be as effective.
I wish that I could help you, but I don't rightly know. My apologies.
Your body doesn't really build a resistance to antibiotics, but the bacteria within/on your body does. That is why it is important to stay on track with your schedule. For something like acne though, you should be just fine.
for body building i used the product from
www.heightboosting.com


More questions & answers:
The Health & Disease informations are posted by the website users and for your use only, and without responsibility on addiestan.com.