“It’s like folks who insist on antibiotic medications when they get a cold: it hardens the bacteria in their bodies while having no effect on the virus.”
I strongly suspect my viral infections of cold/flue spawn secondary infections involving bacteria. Why? Maybe it is the green/yellow snot that always goes with them. Or maybe experience has taught me a single dose of an antibiotic will leave me feeling great in 24 hours or less.
A vet treating my dog for a viral infection gave him an antibiotic. Said the antibiotic would deal with the secondary infection and allow the body to then concentrate on the virus.
All I can say is that a lot of experience tells me a single dose of antibiotic can turn my sinuses from having so much pressure that they feel like they are going to explode to feeling fine, often in 12 hours and almost always within 24 hours.
I strongly suspect my viral infections of cold/flue spawn secondary infections involving bacteria. Why? Maybe it is the green/yellow snot that always goes with them. Or maybe experience has taught me a single dose of an antibiotic will leave me feeling great in 24 hours or less.
A vet treating my dog for a viral infection gave him an antibiotic. Said the antibiotic would deal with the secondary infection and allow the body to then concentrate on the virus.
You are replying to comments made by freeper Don W. However, what you say seems to make sense as well, particularly the last part regarding the case with your dog. But then I don't know very much about the subject. I was more agreeing with Don W's comments about how some people take antibiotics thinking it will kill a virus. ie, cure their cold.