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Q: How can taking antibiotics when they are not needed add to the problem of resistance to antibiotics?
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Can you work out while taking antibiotics?

no it will make you drosey of course you can work while taking antibiotics...the only problem it has caused for me is a little stomach ache...thats only when I didn't eat with it.


How can you reduce antibiotic resistance?

We can reduce it by using different antibiotics, by using them less often and fight the illness in a different maybe natural way and finally by taking the whole course of the antibiotics instead of just taking them until you feel better.


Can you take Voltaren while taking antibiotics?

Yes, there is no problem in taking Voltaren (diclofenac) with an antibiotic. But, some antibiotics are hard on the stomach.. like voltaren.. this might cause bigger gastrointestinal side effects.


Why is it a problem in medicine for anibiotic resistance?

Antibiotic resistance happens when taking antibiotics more that it is required, high frequent doses will cause bacterial antibiotic resistance because in this case bacteria will get use into certain drug and so become ineffective. Resistance also happen when the patient has frequent illness, which make him/her taking the antibiotic for a long period of time. At that point patient should go the physician to describe him/her another effective drug, in order to kill bacteria and stop the illness.


How does resistance develop in bacteria?

Bacteria, like all organisms, have phenotypic variations. Some bacteria are resistant to antibacterial drugs and survive the onslaught of these drugs. They then go on to have progeny ( by fission ) that they confer this resistance on so that you have a new population of resistant bacteria.


Can you take mucinex dm while taking Aleve?

Yes, there is no problem in taking those 2 drugs together.


What practices contributes the most to bacterial resistance to standard antibiotics?

Taking only half of an antibiotic prescription to treat a bacterial infection. Study Island


Can you get an infection from eating a girl out while shes taking antibiotics?

It depends on what she is taking the antibiotics for.


Why is medicne lesuride 25 mg given?

i tnk its an antibiotics or used to cure stomach problem..as my doctor prescribed me this for gastric problem( gastroreflux problem) iam taking it with sompraz fast 40 but still my chest my not cured i am taking it for from past one month as prescribed by him


Can you drink red wine while taking antibiotics?

Sure. But the antibiotics will be neutralized.


Why is it harmful for patients not to continue the whole course of antibiotic treatment?

If you stop taking your antibiotics before the full course of treatment is complete, you may kill only some of the bacteria that caused the infection. Worse yet, the remaining bacteria may have some resistance to the antibiotics. It is also important to take antibiotics only when prescribed by a doctor, and in particular do not take antibiotics for a virus (such as the common cold or the flu). Antibiotics have no effect on viruses.


Is it all right to restart taking your antibiotics if you have missed one day?

no you cant it will not be effective, since missing you can't have the same antibiotic for a while because your own body's antibodies will have builtup a resistance angainst the antibiotic so it would be pointless to try