Antibiotics are dished out like candy with almost every visit to an MD or vet, even when an infection hasn’t been confirmed.
It’s the one drug the medics seem to use with total impunity.
And when it doesn’t work, which is quite often, they just increase the strength and the duration. It’s madness. If something doesn’t work, then it doesn’t work. By constantly trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by hitting it harder, what do you achieve?
Usually a damaged round hole AND square peg.
Which is exactly what happens with antibiotics, really with all drugs too.
This is not healing. It’s doing the exact opposite of what used to be the oath taken on qualification - do no harm.
It is now known that all living beings have microbiomes which consists of a series of communities of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archeae and protists (both single cell organisms) and other microorganisms whose composition are dependent on enviromental conditions.
These occur everywhere. Perhaps the best known are the gut.
They outnumber the body’s own cells.
It is also known that no tissue in a body is sterile.
So our bodies operate within all these living communities, in a continuous dynamic equilibrium.