question for people with pharm/micro knowledge

[pharmguy]

(also posted on chat)

Why can't we just take 2 separate massive doses of antibiotics? Like 4000 mg tetracycline and again the next day another 4000 mgs, won't that wipe out your bacterial problem? why must it be spread out?


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[Animal]

Cause you might toast you liver for one and two is that bacteria are in different states of growth and you can't hit them all with one dose.

Antibiotics generally only work on the young bacteria, so they kill some, but the old are still making more, so you have to dose again.

 

[pharmguy]

Cause you might toast you liver for one and two is that bacteria are in different states of growth and you can't hit them all with one dose.

Antibiotics generally only work on the young bacteria, so they kill some, but the old are still making more, so you have to dose again.

so even 2 days in a row? isn't long enough, must not be or they would have thought of it I suppose