He needed powerful antibiotics and surgery to drain the infection.

If you're sick enough to need antibiotics, however, I'd say skip happy hour and give your body time to fight the infection.

The card states that you may need preventive antibiotics before certain procedures.

No matter what causes the infection, most children 2 years and older won't need antibiotics.

For infections that actually did need antibiotics, she generally gave two or three.

"I needed antibiotics and they didn't have any," she said.

These experts add that doctors should not turn away patients who need antibiotics.

While these symptoms can be present with just a cold, if you've had them for more than a week, you may need antibiotics.

To treat them, you may need different, stronger, and more costly antibiotics.

To treat them you may need different, stronger antibiotics that cost more.