It may be a good idea to rely on such as vitamin C to protect the body from viruses, as antibiotics have been found to potentially produce more germs.
Findings published in the journal, Molecular Cell, revealed that despite physicians normal warnings that patients should finish their antibiotic prescriptions to ensure the prevention of further infection, the drugs are insufficient against the germs that are produced through illness.
“We know free radicals damage DNA, and when that happens, DNA repair systems get called into play that are known to introduce mistakes, or mutations,” said lead researcher James Collins. “We arrived at the hypothesis that sub-lethal levels of antibiotics could bump up the mutation rate via the production of free radicals, and lead to the dramatic emergence of multi-drug resistance.”
Collins went on to say that these findings should teach physicians to be more disciplined about their prescriptions and that they should heavily advise their patients to take the recommended dose. Being careless with antibiotics could ultimately have the opposite effect in terms of illness immunity.