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Are viral infections or bacterial infections treated with antibiotics?
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∙ 13y ago
Antibiotics are only for suscpetible bacteria.
Antiviral meds, are for susceptible viruses.
Viruses and bacteria are two different things.
"Antibiotic" literally means "against life". Although they replicate inside living cells, viruses are not living things, and thus not affected by antibiotic drugs. If you have a bad cold or flu, and your doctor prescribes antibiotics, change doctors; you're wasting your money.
Although one often hears phrases like "killed virus" vaccine, it means the virus' ability to replicate inside a living cell has been inactivated ("killed") before being injected. But the body still reacts to it as though it were "live", and produces antibodies.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoBacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics a virus can't.
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What type of infections can be treated with antibiotics?
Bacteria
What type of illness can be treated with antibiotics?
Only bacterial infections they are not effective for viral infections.
Why antibiotics could not kill the virus?
Antibiotics are used to fight bacterial infections not viral infections.
Viral infections cannot be treated by?
Antibiotics
Can you use amoxicillin for bacterial infections?
Yes, they can cure bacterial infections but they cannot cure viruses. :)
Can antibiotics be prescribed by a physician to treat both viral and bacterial infections?
only bacterial
Antibiotics are effective against both bacterial and viral infections?
false
What is the differences between viral and bacterial water-born disease?
The viral water-borne diseases cannot be treated by the antibiotics while the bacterial water-borne diseases can be treated by the antibiotics.
Can antibiotics be used for bacteria or viruses?
Bacteria. Antibiotics kill bacteria. Bacterial pneumonia is treated with antibiotics. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses. There are several different treatments for some kinds of viral pneumonia -- such as pneumonia caused by any kind of influenza virus. Other kinds of viral pneumonia have no known cure.
Why do antibiotics do not help teat viral infections?
Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, they have no affect on viruses. Vaccinations treat viruses.
What kind of infections do antibiotics fight?
Antibiotics fight bacterial infections, antibiotics do not fight all bacterial infections however, they generally fight one of two types of bacteria (gram negative and gram positive). Antibiotics have no effect on viral infections or parasites, but they are sometimes prescribed with a viral infection to prevent a bacterial superinfection - when you get a bacterial infection because your immune system was weakened by the viral infection first. Antibiotics have saved more lives than those lost in any war but overusing them or not finishing a course can lead to the evolution of resistant bacteria which can no longer be killed by antibiotics.
What types of illnesses do antibiotics cure?
Antibiotics only cure bacterial infections. Antibiotics will not cure a viral infection.
