Antibiotics are very popular. However, not everyone knows how should be use it.

1. What was the benefit of antibiotics?

   Antibiotics are chemicals designed to fight germs, especially bacteria. There are various types of germs, there is a big germs, there are small, with a diverse nature as well.

   Germs tend to nest in a particular organ in the body of the host. Some like it in the brain, in the lungs, the intestines, nerves, kidneys, stomach, skin, or throat, and others. In the organs where it was breeding, a specific bacterium is causing the infection. Cause typhoid germs in the intestines of typhoid, TB germs in the lungs, but can also in bone, kidney, brain, and skin. Leprosy germs in the nerve and the skin, bacteria in the throat diphtheria, tetanus in the nerve, and many more.

   Initially, discovered of penicillin, and sulfa, which is used to treat all infectious diseases. Now, have dozens of types of antibiotics found, both from the same family, as well as the newer types. Each antibiotic has his ability in the fight against germs. That’s because, every clump of germs have their antidotes specific. However, most antibiotics are completely impervious or broad spectrum. That is, all the germs can kill.

   In addition, there is a narrow type of antibiotic use, specific only to certain germs alone. For example, the antibiotics for TB germs (mycobacterium tuberculosis), or for leprosy or leprosy (mycobacterium leprous), or for typhoid (salmonella typhoid).

2. When use antibiotic?

   Antibiotics are used if there is infection by bacteria. Infection occurs when bacteria enter the body. Germs enter the body through the entrance. There is a mouth with food and drink, breathing air into the lungs, through wound in the skin, through sexual contact, or enter through the bloodstream, then the bacteria into the organs that he liked to nest.

   Common symptoms of infection are usually accompanied by body temperature rises, fever, headache, and pain. Infection in the skin inflamed red reaction, swelling, heat, and pain. The example is ulcers. At the intestine, Symptomatic heartburn, diarrhea. At the airways, coughing, sore throat, or shortness of breath. At the brain, headache. At the kidney, many of urination, urinary red or like milk.

   However, symptoms of elevated body temperature, fever, headache, and pain, could also not caused by bacteria, but infection by viruses or parasites. Of complaints, symptoms and signs, the doctor can identify whether the infection caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites.

   The disease is caused not by germs not work treated with antibiotics. For virus were given antiviral, and to be given anti parasites, such as anti malarial, antifungal, and antiworm. If infection by specific types of bacteria, usually doctors give antibiotics immediately in accordance with the bacteria cause. For example pain in the skin, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid, or red eye infections.

   With germ cultures, but found the type of bacteria, can also directly check the appropriate type of antibiotic to put it down (the resistance test). Thus, the infection is more appropriate treatment. If not performed resistance tests, could be considered capable of antibiotics had no effect, because the bacteria have developed resistance to the kind of potent antibiotics are considered.

3. Why more and more antibiotic resistant bacteria?

   The use of antibiotics in these countries is developing often uncontrolled and tends haphazard. Antibiotics that can be purchased freely, ignorance of use, and not used up completely, causing the generation of resistant bacteria (resistant) to antibiotics that are used inappropriately and recklessly that.

   The more frequent and much abused an antibiotic, the faster the germs that cause common immune killed. Use of antibiotics erythromycin groups and the most widely used in the decade of the 80s, gave birth to generations of the more resistant bacteria to it. Then, created a new generation of the same family. Every few years, birth of a new generation of antibiotics to eradicate species that have been resistant germs. And of course with the more expensive price.

4. Side effects antibiotics?

   Like most drugs, antibiotics have side effects of each. There is a bad effect on kidney, liver; some are disturbing the balance of the body. The doctor knows what the side effects of antibiotics, so do not be given to any patient. Patients with liver disorders, for example, should not be given antibiotic side effects liver damage, even powerful

   Decontaminate patients who were suffered. Doctors need to choose another antibiotic, may be less powerful, but does not have an effect on the liver.

   However, if an antibiotic is not a replacement, antibiotics still used, with notes, the danger of side effects in a patient require monitoring by a doctor, if used for long periods of time. Antibiotics for tuberculosis, for example, that drinking at least 6 months, have liver function tests periodically, so if you have liver damage, a drug considered to be replaced.

5. What the danger overuse of antibiotics?

   Not recommended use antibiotics too often. A little coughs colds, antibiotics drinking immediately. Though not necessarily need. Why?

   Not necessarily cold cough caused by germs. Initially by the virus. If strong bodies condition, viral disease generally heal themselves. Needs to be done on the diseases caused by viruses is

   Strengthen the immune system with enough to eat, rest, and nutritious food. Giving antibiotics in coughs caused by common cold viruses are only wasteful and harmful entities, because the carry side effects that antibiotic did not have to happen.

   The case of cough cold virus that had long, which is usually exploited by bacteria, just needs an antibiotic to eradicate the bacteria, not for her flu virus. Sign of a cold cough antibiotics need is to look at his nose. That had been diluted into a clear thick yellow-green. During his nose was still weak nodes, antibiotics are not needed.

   Drinking antibiotics too often also disrupt the balance of intestinal flora. We know, in the normal intestinal bacteria that help grow digestion and the formation of vitamin K. In addition, in certain parts of our body also live benign germs that live side by side in peace with our bodies. In the vulva, the skin, the mouth, and everywhere there are body parts that do not interfere with the bacteria, but beneficial (symbiotic).

   Too often take antibiotics meant to kill all the bacteria that are beneficial to tame your body. If the population of benign decreased, body balance of microorganisms can be disrupted, so that the fungus that had been frightened by the germs in our body the opportunity to more easily attacked.

   That is, many people who after taking antibiotics too long, and then attacked by fungal diseases. Can growth mushroom at the skin, intestine, thrush in the mouth, or anywhere else. Whitish mold on women because, among other things because of vaginal antisepsis too clean by killing beneficial bacteria around the vagina (Doderlein).

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