Antibiotics
January 29th 2012 14:43
Antibiotics is a drug produced by certain microbes. Antibiotics destroy other microbes that damaged human tissues. They are used to treat a wide variety of diseases, including gonorrhea, tonsillitis and tuberculosis.
Antibiotics are sometimes called 'wonder drugs' because they can cure diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever. But when the antibiotics are overused or misused, these drugs make a person sensitive being attacked by a superbug.
Antibiotics do not always distinguish between harmless and dangerous microbes. If a drug destroys too many harmless micro-organisms, the pathogenic ones-the dangerous microbes will have a greater chance to multiply. This situation often leads to the development of a new infection called suprainfection.
Extensive use of some antibiotics may damage organs and tissues. For example, streptomycin, which is used to treat tuberculosis, has caused kidney damage and deafness.
Resistance to the antibiotics may be acquired by pathogenic microbes. The resistant microbes transfer the genetic material to non-resistant. During antibiotics treatment, non-resistant microbes are destroyed, but resistant types survive and multiply.
To avoid the side effect of antibiotics, you'd better not urge your doctor to prescribe antibiotics. Keep in mind that antibiotics are only useful for bacterial infections and have no effect on viruses, so they cannot be used for chicken pox, measles and other viral diseases.
Antibiotics are sometimes called 'wonder drugs' because they can cure diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever. But when the antibiotics are overused or misused, these drugs make a person sensitive being attacked by a superbug.
Antibiotics do not always distinguish between harmless and dangerous microbes. If a drug destroys too many harmless micro-organisms, the pathogenic ones-the dangerous microbes will have a greater chance to multiply. This situation often leads to the development of a new infection called suprainfection.
Extensive use of some antibiotics may damage organs and tissues. For example, streptomycin, which is used to treat tuberculosis, has caused kidney damage and deafness.
Resistance to the antibiotics may be acquired by pathogenic microbes. The resistant microbes transfer the genetic material to non-resistant. During antibiotics treatment, non-resistant microbes are destroyed, but resistant types survive and multiply.
To avoid the side effect of antibiotics, you'd better not urge your doctor to prescribe antibiotics. Keep in mind that antibiotics are only useful for bacterial infections and have no effect on viruses, so they cannot be used for chicken pox, measles and other viral diseases.
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