>>9244829It would if you had an unlimited budget, but med charts especially for older patients can go on for pages. If you combine all those antibiotics there's a greatly increased chance that:
- Someone will prescribe an antibiotic and forget to remove it
Antibiotics have effects like I've said. Every antibiotic has side effects:
Penicillins - high sodium content (unsuitable for hypertensive patients)
Cephalosporins - hypersensitivity reactions with cross reactivity with penicillin
glycopeptides - ototoxicity, nephrotoxicity ? cannot be used in patients with kidney failure and can cause people to lose their hearing
tetracyclines - cannot be used in females due to the chance of birth defects, causes gut disturbance and vitamin b deficiency
amingolycosides - also otoxic, nephrotoxic - cannot be used in patients with kidney failure
macrolides ? GIT disturbance
and so on
How many people do you think fit into the category of being able to take all of them?
New classes of antibiotics have not been discovered for a very long time and we are running out of them. That's why people don't use antibiotics if at all possible. Also people may be anaphylactic to or develop anaphylaxis to drugs which is really not ideal.
Also cost is an absolute huge factor, especially if you are Murrican from what I hear. And people stop taking medications all the time if the dosing is complicated. If you combined all of these drugs you would have to figure out all the pharmokinetics of all of them (drugs all have different volumes of distribution and ways of being metabolised, for example) which is a huge pain in the ass. Not feasible in my opinion. There's a greater likelihood that when antibiotics fuck off for good people will need to resort to distilling antibodies by innoculating animals and purifying the products, but it's really slow.
