Contest: Health Matters (17); ANTIBIOTICS AND OUR HEALTH
Hello my dear Steemians,
Today I wanted to write for this contest that is running by @sahmie, here is the link if you are also interested:
https://steemit.com/hive-168205/@sahmie/health-matters-17-antibiotics-and-our-health
When there is any infection in our body then we need a help of medication called antibiotics. Antibiotics are the medication many made in order to fight infection, some of them based on biological basis like Penicillium Mold which gave the origin of a famous first antibiotics like Penicillin. Some of antibiotics are chemically produced. There are two types of antibiotics one that directly kill bacteria and another they stop growth and multiplication of bacteria. Either of them are good and used for certain type of infection
As any medication antibiotics have side effects, there are some commonest:
antibiotics induced diarrhoea, often happens after few days of taking antibiotics, the reason is that there will be not only bad bacteria will be killed but also the normal good bacteria of our intestine and that may upset of stomach
nausea is another very common one
reaction like an allergy, rash and itching of skin, if that happens then antibiotics must be stopped
more serious reaction could cause oedema of mucous membrane, eyes, airway mouth that sometimes cause dangerous life threatening condition
We often hear about antibiotic resistant and everyone also heard that it is dangerous condition that we should do everything to prevent it. The reason why such condition can happen is when someone take antibiotics for a long time or if there are many different but also strong antibiotics been use then later on if antibiotics needed then the simple one will be not effective.
Another reason could be that people start taking antibiotics and then stop without finishing a course and still have the infection. That is why often doctors advice to finish the course of antibiotics.
That is why what you need to do to prevent resistant to antibiotics:
do not take antibiotics without any indication for it
when you started antibiotics then you should finished a course
Antibiotics if used correctly will help our immune system to fight the infection, often it is not enough and our immune system can suffer from all that bacteria that are living in growing in our body. We also heard the word such as “Sepsis” that is a condition that is caused by bacteria and when our body unable to fight itself and our organs might start showing the signs of organ insufficiency. That is why early help can a patient to recover early.
Viral infection we can treat without antibiotics, with some home remedies:
drink plenty
make sure that you have some energy like juices, fruits like grapes that are rich in juices
soups
bed rest
when you feel hot and having temperature then wet compresses can be applied to the forehead or you can wrap the calves with them, that usually quickly reduces the temperature.
*In UK antibiotics can be prescribed only by doctors. Usually the doctor does an examination, sometimes takes bloods and also when there is an evidence of infection that needs to be treated, then doctor will issue a prescription with strict instruction how to take antibiotics and how long. If that will not help then the doctor will review patient again.
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