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Supposed to take antibiotics 3 times per day. how many hours do i wait in between?

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Dr. Joel Gallant answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

8, give or take: 24 divided by 3 is 8, so an interval of 8 hours is about right. However, with antibiotics, you don't have to be quite that exact, so you can be off by a couple hours.

Dr Khanna agreed

Answered 3/14/2019

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