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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Viral respiratory infections often lead to secondary bacterial infections if they persist for long periods of time. This is common and not a new phenomenon.[/quote]

This. I am as anti-prophylactic antibiotics as they come — and I’m also a hospital based nurse that’s on the unit’s antibiotic stewardship committee.

Sometimes you just get a bacterial infection in your sinuses or lungs. Or ears

My own son always gets it in his lungs three weeks later. Once it was was pneumonia.  I actually demand sputum test so that we get the correct antibiotics. …..

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As an adult if I am not put on antibiotics, a cold lasts 2-3 months, not just a week and I already have serious lung damage from doctors ignoring it.  I do sputum tests often and they are a joke as doctors ignore the positive symptoms.  Doctors say no, then push me to be hospitalized for antibiotices and its crazy when it can be prevented and I'm not going to the hospital to catch something else.[/quote]

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