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Antibiotics and cold

Kindly let me know if it is important to take antibiotics when I have cold.

Sikemi (by SMS)

 

The best way to treat a common cold is to focus on alleviating the symptoms until the infection has run its course. Since a cold is caused by a virus, antibiotics aren’t an effective treatment.

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