Antibiotics?!
Question:
Antibiotics?
what is antibiotics. Why should we take antibiotics to cure most of the diseases. Is it dangerous any way. Name some common antibiotics and its use pls?
Answers:
Hi saji j, antibiotics are chemical or biological substances either produced by microorganisms or are produced artificially to kill or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. They are used at very low concentrations.
Is it dangerous? Antibiotics is very toxic that means that if the dose is much larger than expected then it may lead to accumulation in the body and may even lead to death in some cases. Second problem is of hypersensitivity, which means that certain antibiotics for e.g. penicillins can cause hypersensitive reactions in the body, which at times may be quite severe. But the most important problem and the problem, which has attracted much concern among the medical fraternity, is that of resistance. Certain microorganisms for e.g. Staphylococcus are known to get quick resistance against the antibiotics and you need to be cautious before using them blindly.
Name some common antibiotics? Penicillin, cephalosporin, amino-glycosides, streptomycin and tetracycline are all examples of common antibiotics. Penicillin is the largest group of antibiotics to be used in modern clinical medicine.
Why should we take antibiotics to cure most of the diseases? This wrong opinion. Only in extreme situations when other treatments do not work I am take antibiotics.
Jason Homan