Question about medication??!
Question:
Question about medication??
AIDS and tuberculosis are often treated with a "cocktail" of several antibiotic agents at once. Why is the cocktail more effective than a single agent? What is the physician trying to prevent by prescribing several agents at one time?
Answers:
Many bacterial agents grow resistant to antibiotics overtime. Because of this the general population has become innundated with "super bugs" which are untreatable by traditional antibiotics. In the population of patients with AIDS they are already more susceptible to infection. SO it is more effective to treat infection with a cocktail of meds in order to keep ahead of the disease and stop off avenues of mutation so the disease will not become resistant.