The reason for widespread use of short course antibiotics for management of this condition is that they have shown to modestly reduce the duration of symptoms by a few days36, though without much impact on disease severity. However, given that symptoms are typically mild and short lived in the first place and that risks of developing antibiotic associated diarrhoea (or other side effects, such as Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome) and causing development of antibiotic resistance strains are fairly high, routine use of antimicrobials in this scenario may not be justified and cannot be routinely recommended.37 Commonly used drugs in this case are ciprofloxacin or co-trimoxazole (SMX/TMP) (with ciprofloxacin apparently superior), but it is worth keeping in mind that the FDA has recently strengthened warnings on use of ciprofloxacin.38 Further, due to developing resistance of Campylobacter to fluoroquinolones in Southeast Asia, azithromycin has become the drug of choice.39