I have always thought IV antibiotics were used to treat infections. If they are used for something else I am not aware of it. Let me know if you find out. Have a good day!

Hi Mike, so I’ve read all the comments on the IV, but no one answered yoabout your .radiculopathy... it a referred pain that originates at one point, (mine is from my lumbar area) and travels down the nerve pathways o an extremity. (Mine travels from my low back down both legs to my feet, I also have cervical radiculopathy that originates in my neck and travels down my arm to my fingers). So I hope I have described it so you understand.

Did you have recent bloodwork done? If so there must be something on there (usually a high white blood cell count) that is causing them to suggest IV antibiotics. If this ice e, go directly to where you are instructed to go, I know you have no car, call an ambulance and tell them you were instructed to go to the ER to receive antibiotics for your infection and you have no way to get there...I had sepsis and was called at 7pm by my doctors with those instructions by him, and they gave me a pill...REFUSE THE PILL AND MAKE THEM CONTACT THE DR THAT INSTRUCTED YOU TO GO THERE! This is serious when they want to do IV antibiotics!

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Cheryll

Years ago, during my generation, and I'm 69, antibiotics were often given as a preventative for secondary infections weather bacterial or viral. This caused many people of my generation to end up resistant to some antibiotics due to over prescribing. In my case it happened because every time my allergies were acting up I was given an antibiotic in the hopes of preventing a sinus infection or pneumonia. At one point I was on low dose for a very long time. Of course it did nothing but leave me resistant to some antibiotics. Also the antibiotics that are now routinely injected into the meat we eat is doing the same thing. That's why many people are going to organic meat.

Antibiotics do not kill viruses...they are used for bacterial infections.

IV means INTRAVENOUSLY from a bag hung up on a dripstand through a line & needle directly into a vein