Taking antibiotics during the flu can harm your health.

Allergic Reactions to Antibiotics

Professor Rina Zaslavskaya, chief expert of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, says: “A person may have an allergic reaction to antibiotics. That is, he develops, for example, skin urticaria with itching and swelling of the throat and a rash covering the skin, which complicates his condition and prolongs the period of treatment and recovery.

Ineffectiveness Against Viral Infections

Taking antibiotics does not help if a person has respiratory infections, she said, as they are often viral in nature.

“We have to understand that antibiotics are not effective against viruses,” she says.

Source: pravda.ru