Question

Which could result from a person who does not finish the prescribed amount of antibiotics for an infection?

Answer 1

Ans. Antibiotic resistant bacteria.

If someone fails to complete the course of antibiotics for an infection, some of infection causing bacteria may survive (having a greater resistance for those antibiotics). It will lead to bacterial population in afflicted patient, with a higher resistance than normal ones.

When these resistant bacteria reproduce, infection caused by their progeny would not be treatable with same old antibiotics.

Answer 2

The infection could overtake the whole body and could even shut down the body killing everything in the body.