What are antibiotics? Why are they both good and bad?
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Antibiotics are drugs that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria. They’re good because they can help eradicate bacterial infections your immune system can’t. They’re bad because:
* Some of them have severe side effects.
* Many aren’t very precise in the bacteria they kill, and so they kill the good bacteria in your gut, potentially allowing bad bacteria to take over.
* If they’re used willy-nilly they can select for bacteria that can resist them.
Antibiotics are drugs that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria. They’re good because they can help eradicate bacterial infections your immune system can’t. They’re bad because:
* Some of them have severe side effects.
* Many aren’t very precise in the bacteria they kill, and so they kill the good bacteria in your gut, potentially allowing bad bacteria to take over.
* If they’re used willy-nilly they can select for bacteria that can resist them.
Antibiotics aren’t bad. Misusing them is bad.
Antibiotics on their own are arguably the greatest invention in human history.
Bacteria are all over in human bodies, and good ones help us function, like digesting food in our gut for us.
Antibiotics kill bacteria, and if they are “broad-spectrum” antibiotics, they don’t much care what kind of bacteria they kill.
Using antibiotics can both help get rid of bad bacteria that makes us sick, but also kills off good bacteria in our system at the same time.
Also, if there happens to be a mutant bad bacteria that somehow can’t be killed by commonly used antibiotics, it’ll be left to multiply in your body and create an infection that is very hard to get rid of (since it doesn’t die from common antibiotics).
There’s also the chance of passing drug-resistant, mutant bacteria to other people (like some strep throat strains), which could create widespread antibiotic-resistant infections.
Bacteria are all over in human bodies, and good ones help us function, like digesting food in our gut for us.
Antibiotics kill bacteria, and if they are “broad-spectrum” antibiotics, they don’t much care what kind of bacteria they kill.
Using antibiotics can both help get rid of bad bacteria that makes us sick, but also kills off good bacteria in our system at the same time.
Also, if there happens to be a mutant bad bacteria that somehow can’t be killed by commonly used antibiotics, it’ll be left to multiply in your body and create an infection that is very hard to get rid of (since it doesn’t die from common antibiotics).
There’s also the chance of passing drug-resistant, mutant bacteria to other people (like some strep throat strains), which could create widespread antibiotic-resistant infections.
Antibiotics aren’t bad. Misusing them is bad.
Antibiotics on their own are arguably the greatest invention in human history.
Bacteria are all over in human bodies, and good ones help us function, like digesting food in our gut for us.
Antibiotics kill bacteria, and if they are “broad-spectrum” antibiotics, they don’t much care what kind of bacteria they kill.
Using antibiotics can both help get rid of bad bacteria that makes us sick, but also kills off good bacteria in our system at the same time.
Also, if there happens to be a mutant bad bacteria that somehow can’t be killed by commonly used antibiotics, it’ll be left to multiply in your body and create an infection that is very hard to get rid of (since it doesn’t die from common antibiotics).
There’s also the chance of passing drug-resistant, mutant bacteria to other people (like some strep throat strains), which could create widespread antibiotic-resistant infections.
Antibiotics aren’t bad. Misusing them is bad.
Antibiotics on their own are arguably the greatest invention in human history.
Antibiotics are medicines that have specific mechanism of actions towards bacteria. They are decided into classes based on mechanisms.
They are good as they have saved millions or even hundred of millions of lives. Small things that would mean death: infected wounds, abscesses, UTI, pneumonia are now treatable even as outpatient.
They are bad in their side effects, which are specific for each med. Some may increase risk of other infections. The other people born with antibiotics is that excessive use has caused (worsening) resistance.
One major thing: antibiotics have no effect on virus, protozoan, or fungi.
Antibiotics are medicines that have specific mechanism of actions towards bacteria. They are decided into classes based on mechanisms.
They are good as they have saved millions or even hundred of millions of lives. Small things that would mean death: infected wounds, abscesses, UTI, pneumonia are now treatable even as outpatient.
They are bad in their side effects, which are specific for each med. Some may increase risk of other infections. The other people born with antibiotics is that excessive use has caused (worsening) resistance.
One major thing: antibiotics have no effect on virus, protozoan, or fungi.
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