>>108548109I normally wouldn't correct some 3rd world retard on this site but this misinfo might actually get someone killed.
If you have a bacterial infection, you should ALWAYS treat it with antibiotics. Even a mild bacterial infection in an otherwise healthy individual can kill you, and kill you very quickly. The timelapse between "oh this cold sucks" and sepsis, meningitis, or pneumonia is around 18 hours. We all survive these kinds of infections, until suddenly we don't. And as the sick man there's no warning that this time your luck will run out until it's too late. There's a reason the human life expectancy was so low before the discovery of antibiotics, and it's precisely because of all those otherwise healthy men and women dying in their 30s from common but potentially fatal infections.
Not every cold is a bacterial infection, but if you have any reason to suspect you might have more than a cold, you need to hit up a clinic and get looked at. At worst you waste 20 minutes for the doctor to quickly rule out anything serious. If they see any sign, even remote, of bacterial infection, they'll prescribe you a round of antibiotics. Because it's not something you fuck around with. Avoiding the creation of drug resistant bugs isn't so valuable that we risk the lives of otherwise healthy patients. And for the record, any kind of ear infection, or throat infection lasting more than a few days, especially if the infection is highly localized or involves cloudy or coloured discharge, is almost certainly bacterial. Go get seen immediately. You would have to be retarded or live somewhere with for profit health"care" if you think it's worth martyring yourself with curable disease just so the disease doesn't become slightly harder to cure in the future.
