Abstract
Antibiotics are usually not used in acute diarrhoeal diseases (ADD), because their positive effects (suppression of growth of pathogenic bacteria) are very often accompanied by intestinal dysmicrobia, caused by the antibiotic. The article outlines the situations where administering antibiotics is actually a viable course of action.
Further, four antibiotics most commonly prescribed for initial of empirical therapy of ADD are discussed: ciprofloxacin, co-trimoxazol, clarithromycin, rifaximin