I wish it were easier to avoid their use, but without antibiotics my kids would spend like half the year with ear infections, miserable (and making everyone else miserable) and lethargic at best. Then there&#x27;s strep—last year I discovered the hard way how dangerous that can be if you don&#x27;t treat that <i>very</i> soon after symptoms start (I&#x27;d never had it, didn&#x27;t realize what was happening&#x2F;how serious it was at first)