There is evidence that in many situations stopping antibiotics sooner is a safe and effective way to reduce antibiotic overuse – British Medical Journal report.

James Sutton battled doctors for six weeks to get a 10-day course of amoxicillin for his severe bronchitic chest infection. When he got the antibiotics, they didn’t really work and, what’s more, he had a major allergic reaction, which caused an outbreak of hives all over his torso, adding to his misery.

“No one seems to know anymore what’s the right thing to do,” says Sutton, a 43-year-old fit and healthy publisher who cycles 18 miles to and from his office every day.

“For the past 50 years or more, doctors have been giving us antibiotics and telling us we must make sure we complete the course; then they started rationing them because of antibiotic resistance in the bacteria. Now we’re being told that doctors don’t really know how to use them either because there hasn’t been enough research, and that taking them for too long might be fuelling the rise of infection-resistant superbugs.”

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