Why you should complete your antibiotic prescription.

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Why you Should Complete your Antibiotic Prescription
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience about the significance of taking a full antibiotic prescription.
Central Idea: Completing an antibiotic prescription is essential to avoid drug resistance and cases and recurrent infections.
Introduction
Relatable Story
I remember my niece who went to a hospital to be treated of a previously diagnosed pneumonia. The doctors realized he his body was resistant to the antibiotics and an alternative prescription was to be used which would take months to eradicate the pathogens.
My niece had to follow the long period of prescribing antibiotics which were expensive simply because he had developed resistance of the previous ones for failing to complete the prescribed dosage.
Were it not for the available alternative my niece would have died.
Transitions: Let’s begin with some facts on the importance of completing the prescribed antibiotics.
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There is always a high need of completing the prescribed antibiotic dose
Pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious cause of death among children worldwide. The disease accounts for 16% of the overall children deaths worldwide many of which are caused by antibiotic resistance (Jain, 841).
A high percentage of people when they feel better, they tend to discontinue the dosage because a vast number of bacteria respond quickly to antibiotics.
Every time a person a person fails to complete a dosage, resistant strains of the bacterium develop on his/her body.

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Reasons why it is necessary to complete your antibiotics doctor’s prescription
When an individual takes the antibiotic the immune system fights against the effects of the drug. Therefore, if a bacterium survives for a long time, it is likely to become resistant to the drugs.
The bacteria have the potential of growing rapidly when one discontinues the dosage which might aggravate the future infection.
If half treated, the bacteria can migrate to other areas of the body which is deadlier (Kotwani, 365). To illustrate reasons why it is essential to complete the prescribed drugs, the following steps should be followed
Steps to follow to ensure you complete the antibiotic dosage
If you don’t like using a long-time dosage, then you should ask your doctor to prescribe medicines that can be taken either once or twice a day. Few doses will help you recall the course of your prescription.
Have a specific antibiotic calendar in your house or office to help you remember.
Carry all your antibiotics so that you will not forget to take them (Weisman & Ellen, 1556). In spite of the above discussion, the conclusion below summarises why a person should complete their antibiotics prescription.
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Transition: Summary why you should complete your antibiotic prescription
Many deaths occur every year due to the failure of completing antibiotic prescription.
Majority of this death is due to the development of antibiotic resistance.
Few dose prescriptions, carrying your antibiotics everywhere you go and having antibiotic calendar is an effective way of helping you always remember to complete your prescription.
Work-Cited
Jain, Seema, et al. “Community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization among US children.” New England Journal of Medicine 372.9 (2015): 835-845.
Kotwani, Anita, et al. “Knowledge and perceptions of antibiotic use and resistance among high school students and teachers in New Delhi, India: A qualitative study.” Indian journal of pharmacology 48.4 (2016): 365.
Weisman, Kara, and Ellen M. Markman. “Theory-based explanation as an intervention.” Psychonomic bulletin & review24.5 (2017): 1555-1562.