Reply #8: My husband had to be on an antibiotic of "last resort" last year [View All]

[frazzled]

First in IV form and then in massive doses of pill form. It was for a bad staph infection. Just seeing that term "last resort" made me very nervous--I thought, if this is the last resort and doesn't work, what then?

Fortunately, it did work, but to be on the safe side his surgeon recommended surgery to remove the hematoma that was the site of the infection.

The most important thing here is that antibiotics should ONLY ever be given for real bacterial infections. So many people demand (and get) antibiotics for all kinds of things.