Topical Antibiotics vs Oral Antibiotics: What’s the Difference and What Does It Mean for Long Term Healing? | 184

About this episode

The episode discusses the differences between topical and oral antibiotics, highlighting the issue of unnecessary prescriptions and their impact on long-term health.

There are several research studies that have recently come out that show that 30 to 50 % of oral antibiotics have been unnecessarily prescribed. If we go with this lower number, 30%, this means one in three antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary. This equals about 47 million unnecessary prescriptions per year in the United States alone. This is significant because when you are prescribed these antibiotics, you're not being educated on how they impact your internal health and your long-term ...

People in this episode

Host: Juniper Bennett

Topics covered

• antibiotics
• health
• long term healing
• topical antibiotics
• oral antibiotics
• prescription practices

Keywords

• antibiotics
• topical antibiotics
• oral antibiotics
• prescriptions
• health impact
• long term healing
• unnecessary prescriptions
• research studies

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Organizations: United States

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