I highly recommend that you do not take anti-biotics for this. Yes they are extremely harmful and should only be used in life and death situations. I am not a fan of Iodine supplementation in large doses, I did not have good results from this. I believe that the majority of the benefits people feel from taking large doses of Iodine is that it stimulates the thyroid gland and this certainly can help people quite a bit. Many people can feel negative effects from over-stimulation of the thyroid gland and can basically be somewhat poisoned by large doses of iodine. The fact of the matter is that the thyroid gland actually only needs a very small amount of Iodine to function properly and there are other much safer ways to stimulate the thyroid gland to get it back to healthy levels.