[Poohbah]

Actually, the biggest problem in taking an antibiotic when you don't need to is that it will destroy the NECESSARY bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract--making digestion much harder, and opening yourself up to opportunistic GI tract infections when you go off the antibiotic.

[TexanaRED]

Thanks! I have been told a zillion times why one should not take antibiotics when they are not sick, but my feeble little brain just couldn't shake out the cobwebs and put it on paper or, in this case, the monitor!