do you take antibiotics for cough and/or colds?

hi there, i used to use antibiotics for cold because they kept on becoming infections, i have stopped and i use tissue salts now, as they help fight off infections and prevents usage of antibiotics. Continuos usage of a specific antibiotic for example can lead to tha body not responding to the antibiotic anymore. Im not a person to choose antibiotics easily, only if its necessary will i ever use them to get better.

No,i dont take antibiotics for cough and cold.I am using ayurvedic medicine for it.

No, I don't take antibiotics. I don't believe in them. If all I have is a cold or even a flu, I just ride it out. I will do a Reiki self treatment on myself and that is all that I will do. I don't like putting chemicals into my body.

A simple cough and colds does not require to be treated with antibiotics.The best thing to do is to rest and take a lot of fluids.Colds is cause by Virus and antibiotics will not do any good.In colds you dont need an X-ray provided your cough had been sitting there for ages and thru auscultation you are severely congested,for sure he will require an X-ray.Good that you used your resources or else you just add toxins to your body.Just be careful next time.

I've been hearing more and more about how antibiotics can harm the immune system and how they are being abused by doctors who do not want to run tests on patients. Also, they kill all bacteria in the body, even the good kind that you need, which can lead to a candida overgrowth, among other things. This makes me want to stop taking them altogether, especially since I have been prescribed antibiotics my whole life for sicknesses that aren't even cured by them. Your body is made to heal itself, and granted, there are some infections that respond well to antibiotics, and you get well faster, but are the harmful side effects worth it?

i apreciate that you have thrown away the antibiotics.first of all under stand what is cold and cough .our body has 4 methodes to eliminate toxins from our body urine,sweat,exhalation,stool,if there is increased toxins or any of the four toxin or waste eliminating methode got clogged the body has to go for alternative methodes like cough ,cold,fever,vomiting,diarrhea etc,if you stop by taking suppressing infact the mucus or phlegam which the body throws out during cold or cough will clogg in lungs and it will lead to major diseases like asthma ,bronchitis etc .better to take easily digestable frutis or 2 days or frui juice only it will definitely cure your problem with in 2 or 3 days and will clean your body from accumilated toxins.antibiotics will kill the good bacterias in your body

This is from my personal experience with my daughter who is about 2 years old. One time she had cough and colds and I though it just ordinary one so what we did was gave her more water and other fruits juices but after about a week she still could not regain her health instead she would had fever. That was the time I decided to consult a doctor and found out that my daughter had a bronchitis then he prescribed a syrup medicine I don't know if its anti-biotic but it helped her to cured her sickness. So I can say that in some instances our immune system is just not enough to battle all sickness that we may encounter, sometimes extra medicine would do some help.

I only take medicines when I know that my usual household remedies cannot suppress it anymore and when my doctors adviced to take it. But most of the times, I go for fruits rich with vitamin C's that I can find at our fridge. We can always use some calamansi, oranges, pomelos, lemons and honey.

Some doctors are happy to just give out medicines like they are sweets, the same as some patients demand them. I only resort to anti-biotics if they are really necessary, as they do more bad than good if not needed. This is one of the reasons why we have so many deadly strains of certain bugs because of the misuse of anti-biotics. My kids once had a cough that went on for ages. I went to the doctors and he was going to give them some medicine, but I was against it. I found some homeopathic tablets which they took without protest and they worked a treat. I always try to find an alternative and sometimes just letting nature take its course is the best thing. I am sure it builds up our immunity to other bugs.

My mom is a pharmacist and often times when our cough gets worst and it develop phlegm, we are prescribed by my mom and a doctor with an antibiotics. Never though were we prescribed anitbiotics for dry cough. It is true though that our body can cope with certain ilnesses naturally. But often times if we don't take medicines for it as well, it increases the chnaces for it coming back. Take for example cough. A dry cough can be relieved easily by drinking alot of water or fluids and cough medicine if necessary. But if your cough gets to a hard breathing cough(phlegm and all) , the kind where the doctor hears a certain sound on your chest , tendency is your cough have developed fluids etc and thats when certain antibiotics are needed. Antibiotics are also useless when not finished. Its usually taken fully for 1week at the least. Any less than that and its the same as not taking any at all. In short, there wont be any effects to it.

when i have a cough, i will usually drink lots of water only....i have this thing with medicine that if i will take a medicine every time i will have colds/cough, i will be dependent on it...so, i usually use the water therapy method to treat my illness...

I won't even consider going to the doctor for a cough or cold until I've had it for more than a month. If I can't kick it on my own inside of a month then chances are that it is a bacterial infection which needs an antibiotic. As far as I'm concerned......the less antibiotic use the better. Have you read some of the possible side effects? You wonder what's worse, the sickness or the cure.

Antibiotics are so often over prescribed and are completely useless against viruses. I don't like to take them unless absolutely necessary. Otherwise for things like cough and colds I use natural remedies such as herbs and drinking plenty of fluids. It's a good thing that you did throw those out because unless they are really needed, antibiotics can do more harm than good.

yes, this made my cough/colds heal quickly, i ussually take amoxicillin

yes, I have taken antibiotics for coughs and colds as I just got over an illness. My doctor had given me Augmentin for my really red throat and she also gave me prescription cough syrup for my coughing. Both of these helped me very much and am almost back to normal. I have never had bronchitis before but have had numerous other illnesses.

I usally make myself hot leamonade with honey that usally helps me with a cold.

For chest congestion it is better to do steam inhalation with 2 or 3 drops of eucalyptus oil added to it. Raw ginger crushed and mixed with a little salt and Honey mixed with pepper also cures cough. A glass of hot milk with a pinch of turmeric added to it and salt water gargling done twice a day cures cold and cough.

i don't take any medicines for them, i just make sure that i have enough or plenty of vitamin c on my diet.

I haven't taken antibiotics in almost twenty years, and my two children have only taken them one time each. I think they are way over prescribed and sometimes doctors give them to you just because they think you expect to be given them.

antibiotics don't treat bronchitis , but treat the secondry infection . I think you had acute exorpation of chronic bronchitis , and till now the cause of this condition 9disorder 0 is unknown . the good news that antibiotics can treat this condition by unknow mechanism . however, docors want to make it easy for them and orescripe antibiotics for caution .