Anonymous

Patients undergoing surgery ARE injected with antibiotics, before and after surgery. Oral antibiotics aren't prescribed before surgery. The give you a shot of the heavy-duty antibiotics at the time of surgery.

Anonymous

Because you're cutting open a body's first line of defense. Prophylactic antibiotics usually are prescribed in the correct cases. But even with those, there is always a risk if infection. Bacteria can resist antibiotics.

Anonymous

Antibiotics kills the bacteria in your gut wich is our immune system.

Anonymous

They do prescribe them. The possible benefit outweighs the risk, duh.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

Because it invades the human body with foreign objects. The body naturally tries to reject that causing infection. Antibiotics are very common with surgery.