Oral antibiotics work best if you start them at high doses.

Then the patient is sent home with a prescription for oral antibiotics.

Oral antibiotics taken daily in low doses are very effective.

If the infection is mild, then only oral antibiotics will be needed.

"On a routine basis, I'm not going to give a kid a shot when oral antibiotics will work just as well," he said.

In many cases, these conditions can be treated outside of the hospital with oral antibiotics and close follow-up by your doctor.

As a result, your doctor may give you oral antibiotics sooner to start the healing process.

A doctor visit and oral antibiotics may be needed.

He said he had put her on long-term oral antibiotics.

As a practical matter, many patients were also given prophylactic oral antibiotics.