What makes antibiotics quit working?

Question

What makes antibiotics quit working?

Answer 1

Your body becomes immune to it

Answer 2

not taking it constantly like when you keep missing to take them and then your body will get use to them and they you will no longer be able to fight infection with them

Answer 3

our bodies get use to it.. infact thats why we need to avoid them unless you must have them

Answer 4

Antibiotics only work if you keep the same level in your body while fighting an infection. That is why it is important to finish the whole perscription. What happens is, you get an infection. You start taking antibiotic, you start feeling better so you stop taking the antibiotics, The infection is sill in your body and now that the level of antibiotics has dropped the infection can find a way to mutate and become immune to antibiotics. That is also why you should not flush atibiotics down the toilet. The toilet is full of bactiria, and if you introduce the antibiotic without contiued exposeier the bactiria learns to fight off the antibiotics.  

Answer 5

A jerk @ss boss

Crappy pension

No dental plan

Sexual harrassment in the workplace

No career future

More money in vitamans

Answer 6

Its not our bodies that are the problem.  Despite what Yanks believe, evolution is at work.  

The bacteria, which antibiotics kill, are like every other organism. They are born and die but at a very rapid rate.

If a colony is in a person is and at work, and the person takes an antibiotic which is harmful to that strain, it starts to die off and the symptoms may no longer be a problem.  The person thinks they're cured and stops taking the antibiotic before the full course is completed and before the whole population of bacteria is dead.  

The surviving bacteria are, of course, those with the evolutionary traits most resistant to the antibiotic and this trait is reinforced in the succeeding generations. This strain migrates to another person and a similar cycle is repeated further reinforcing the trait and so on until the bacterium is immune to the antibiotic.

Short and simplistic but true.

Answer 7

The bacterial infection evolves to become immune to it.  The bacteria must then be biopsied and cultured to develop a better antibiotic.  Other things in your diet can affect its effectiveness...  Your doctor or pharmacist could explain that, or it may just be written on the bottle of meds.

Answer 8

your body will become immune if you take them to much

Answer 9

Some medications can interfere with the antibiotics potency. the medical problem could be too severe and need a stronger antibiotic.