How do you know when a medication is really right for you? It's easy to put all your faith into a doctor, but doctors have been known to be wrong, and some of us just don't like putting unnatural substances into our bodies without knowing what the long term effects could be.

We all know how over used and abused antibiotics are. When antibiotics were first discovered and patented they were an enormous boon to human kind! They've saved millions and millions of lives and alleviated so much suffering. However, over recent decades (although it's getting better now) antibiotics have been overprescribed to the point where some of the nastiest bacteria are now resistant to most antibiotics (and this is a very BAD thing). So what can you do about it? Next time your doctor prescribes antibiotics, ask him or her why. Will you get better without the antibiotics? If the answer is "yes" then don't take them! If the answer is that you need the antibiotics for whatever reason, then take them for as long as you must.

It's important to be well informed about every form of medication we take! And it's even more important to know exactly why we're taking it and what will/will not happen if we don't take it.