[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Back on the antibiotic thing, I've had so many experiences where I have bronchitis and it's not going away, so I go in. Then a doctor barely looks at me, writes a prescription for anitbiotics, even though I believe bronchitis is viral over 90% of the time.

Then you get people that say "Yeah, they gave me antibiotics but I got better right away so it must not have been bacterial, so I stopped taking them"

Thanks for the superbugs, jerks!

In a healthy person, bronchitis is virtually never bacterial, and should not be treated as such.