But what I was trying to figure out was whether antibiotics would do any good for a fever caused by a virus. I didn't think they would, but not my area of expertise.
They wouldn't. Antibiotics don't help a patient with a viral infection.
But giving antibiotics to a patients with a viral infection sure helps building the resistance of the bacteria.
Your son or daughter who is prescribed antibiotics because of a viral infection will get well on his or her own. But your grandson or granddaughter who gets a bacterial infection may die because antibiotics no longer help, due to reckless over-presciption of antibiotics in the past - that is, now.
Ann
