Resistance

A major concern for the medical community is the resistance of bacteria or infections to antibiotics.  There are many different classes or types of antibiotic available today though eventually each will become less effective over time when used.

Someone I know - who often has a certain type of infection - recently explained to me an incident which might lead to a backwards method of prescribing antibiotics.

As I understand it, this individual has had prescriptions filled but unused.  As chance would have it they weren't paying attention and over the course of some days took a different antibiotic each day.  They were surprised to find themselves apparently free of noticeable infection in half the time it normally took with any individual antibiotic.

I don't know if any studies have been done on antibiotic use which support or contradict this one incident.

I don't even know whether it's ever a sound practice given a doctor's prescription.

It's only being mentioned should it ever become significant.