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1. How long antibiotics should be consumed?

   Duration of antibiotic use varies, depending on the type of infection and germs cause. At least 4-5 days. However, if the infection is still not complete, antibiotics should be continued until the complaint and the symptoms disappeared. In typhus, need a few weeks. Similarly is the diphtheria, tetanus. Sampling time on tuberculosis which took many months. Including leprosy.

   In certain infections, after a cup of antibiotic use, need to be re-examination of the bacteria cultures to ascertain whether the bacteria are completely killed. Urinary tract infection, for example, after finishing a cup of antibiotics and had no complaints of symptoms, the bacteria cultures carried out to see what was left in the kidney of germs. If the remaining germs and the antibiotics discontinued, the infection disease will recur again.

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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.

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