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Are you truly allergic or did you just have a side effect? Allergy = rash, hives, difficulty breathing, sloughing skin. Side effect = diarrhea, upset stomach, orange pee, getting REALLY sick if you drank alcohol with certain antibiotics. Only 15% of patients reporting an allergy to penicillin actually have one.

Often if you had a delayed response, other antibiotics that are related can be used though you may get a reaction again but most doctors wouldn't as they don't have the time to monitor you nor would they really want to in our litigeous society.

It's important because as resistance increases it's important to use the most specific antibiotic. Also, allergies limit choice in antibiotics to use and NO drug is without side effects. Certain penicillins & similar meds are VERY effective at killing/inhibiting bacterial growth & are often the most effective. As you limit your antibiotic range at times antibiotics with more harsh side effect profiles have to be used. Obviously if you're truly allergic & have an infection your body is not strong enough to fight it off itself you must use it to avoid become more ill. But the less drug you use the better & it's good to allow your body to fight infection in mild cases.

Also keep in mind there's a reason you get a fever with infection, it inhibits replication, including bacterial, when it's above optimal temperature. But obviously a high temp is not healthy for you cells either, but a "fiver" is not considered clinically significant until it reaches 100.9 (not in elderly, they often have lower body temps & not don't mount fevers as readily).

That Being said, most doctors would avoid all penicillin family meds (amoxicillin, ampicillin, nafcilin etc.). Also imipenem & other carbapenems, beta-lactams (have a beta-lactam ring like penicillin), and certain cephalosporins (have similar structure - R-group & beta-lactam ring) as amoxicillin & ampicillin.

They can do skin testing to asses your reactivity & if your only option is a possible allergy inducing drug in the hospital they may sensitize you to help save your life.

Molecules in the blood or secretory fluids that stub, destroy, or neutralize germs, viruses, or other poisonous toxins (see Antigens). They are members of a class of proteins agreed as immunoglobulins, which are produced and secreted by B lymphocytes in response to stimulation by antigens. An antibody is specific to an antigen. below are some anitbodies.

Control Immunoglobulin Antibodies

p53 Network Antibodies

Alzheimer's Disease Antibodies

Anthrax Antibodies

Apoptosis Antibodies

Avian Influenza Antibodies

Chemokine Antibodies

Cytokine Antibodies

Dengue Virus Antibodies

Down's Syndrome Antibodies

Growth Factor Antibodies

Hepatitis B Virus Antibodies

Herpes Antibodies

HIV Antibodies and HIV Related Antibodies

Homeostasis Antibodies

Huntington's Disease Antibodies

Immunology Antibodies

Innate Immunity Antibodies

Neurobiology Antibodies

Obesity Antibodies

Parkinson's Disease Antibodies

Phospho-Specific Antibodies

SARS Antibodies and SARS Receptor Antibodies

Signal Transduction Antibodies

Toll-like Receptor (TLR) Related Antibodies

Virus Related Antibodies

West Nile Virus Antibodies

Medicines created using microbes or fungi that are helpless and taken into the body to destroy insanitary bacteria.

Drugs used to treat infection.Drugs that argue infection caused by microbes. Antibiotic drugs include amikacin, amoxicillin (amoxicillin-clavulanic acid), ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, imipenem, metronidazole, novobiocin, penicillin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole I know an antibody is something your bodies produces itself to fight past its sell-by date viruses

Read the other answers for antibiotic, seem I was wrong for that one To net if simple, antibodies are what your body produces to combat an infection whether bacterial or viral while an antibiotic is a substance taken in any through IV, orally, topically, etc . that is to say used to fight an infection. An Antibiotic is a drug used to quarrel off an infection, and antibody is a protein compound your body manufacture in response to a foreign reason in your body, this can be tissue related or a virus. Is we produce antibodies to cold and flu virus, where as we cart an antibiotic to fight bacterial infections. Antibiotics do not work against virus and we do not produce antibodies to bacteria. Antibiotics usually work by breaking down the cell wall of the microbes disabling their ability to reproduce, virus are less complex and do not hold a true cell wall so we produce an antibody against their DNA, and eventually stop them from reproducing as well. Antibodies travel round your body and produce antigens to murder a cold or whatever is wrong next to you.

and an antibiotic is like a boost for your antigens .. it technique that your antigens might not have the right "code" to massacre the cold so the antibiotic just help it make more

hope i help An antibiotic is a drug that kills or prevents the growth of microbes. They have no effect against virus or fungal infections.

An antibody or immunoglobulin is a large Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects close to bacteria and virus.

Please see the web page for more details on Antibiotics and Antibody. antibodies are inside ur body whih fight against the germs to hold on to us healthy ....... weras antibiotic is an external supply (medicine) to strenthen ur body against any viral germs A type of protein made by plasma cell (a type of white blood cell) in response to an antigen (foreign substance). Each antibody can bind to simply one specific antigen. The purpose of this binding is to help verbs the antigen. Antibodies can work in several ways, depending on the disposition of the antigen. Some antibodies destroy antigens directly. Others gross it easier for white blood cells to verbs the antigen. Antibiotic is a chemical substance produced by microorganism which has the dimensions to inhibit the growth of or kill other microorganisms, used to treat infectious diseases. antibiotic is predominantly refered to some kind of molecule or substance and more habitually a drug which effectively inhibits the growth of a microbe that tries to grow inside our body or some animals body and it is generally administered from outside whereas antibody is a self synthesized molecule by the body which is outstandingly specific against a foreign substance when it enters the body and it is a bit of our own immune system.