As an extension to the caveat "Don't drink the water", one should add "Don't inject the water"

Virtually all antibiotics come as dry powders that must be reconstituted with physiologic saline. It is hard enough at my hospital to ensure that trained people with unlimited access to sterile supplies do this in an aseptic manner. There was almost no chance that a lay person with probably no sterile water, syringes, or training in sterile technique would have had a chance of doing this right. Dying of an 'alergic reaction' days later could likely have been a case of sepsis.

The secondary cause of this death was the all too pervasive public belief that antibiotics are a necessary part of wellness. Few outpatient illnesses require or even can benefit from the use of antibiotics. Indiscriminant use leads to the societal issue of evolving antibiotic resistance. At the individual level, persons who have used an antibiotic within the last 6 months have a markedly increased likelihood of having resistant organisms; any intervening illness or surgery is thus more likely to be a personal health problem for them. Even teens who use topical antibiotics for acne suffer increased rates of pneumonia due to antibiotics altering their normal defences. Antibiotics can be lifesaving, but their indiscriminant overuse can cause health problems directly for the user and for society at large.