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
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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.
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