eli5: How do antibiotics help your body to fight bacterial infections? What does it help your body do that it cannot do for itself?
In: Biology
Antibiotics don’t help you body in that they make the body work better.
They help your body as in that they on their own go and kill bacteria.
Antibiotics are chemicals, that through a myriad of different functions, kill bacteria cells when they come in contact, like poison for bacteria.
The chemicals in antibiotics inhibit processes that happen in bacteria cells, but don’t interact with any processes in human cells, so they don’t impact us when we take them.
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