When you're sick, does medicine help you get better, or just delay the effects for a temporary fix?

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IMHO most medicine is pretty unhelpful and you will get over it in the same amount of time without medicine. But when you go doctors will give you medicine because that's what you expect. Or OTC people want a pill to fix their problems. It's a cultural thing. Some medicine is good. Mostly for chronic things. For temporary sicknesses i don't think medicine helps. Sleep will do just as well.

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temporary fix, but temporary can become permanent, your immune system got built while it is temporarily fixed

they help with the symptoms (sneezing, runny nose, fever.) If you have an infection a antibiotic will kill the organism causing you to be sick. If you just have a cold and take a decongestant it will just help the symptoms till the cold virus leaves your body. So in some cases the medicine helps you get better and in some cases medicine just helps you feel better till the bug leaves you alone.

There are differents kinds of medicines
*Antibiotics like pencillin kills the micro organisms and cures the diesease
*Antipyretics(paracetamol), Analgesics(Aciclofenac); Antiemetics(domperidone) just reduce symptoms, wont cure the disease
*There are thousands of drugs currently in the market, and some of them cure and some alleviate diseases

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