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Why does a doctor not prescribe antibiotics if you have mumps?
Antibiotics are prescribed to treat bacterial infections. Mumps aren't caused by bacteria. Once someone has mumps, he/she is then naturally immune to it.
When and who created the antibiotics for the flu fevercold chickenpox and the mumps?
Flu, cold, chickenpox, and mumps are viral and aren't treated with antibiotics.
Does the vaccine for mumps contain antibiotics?
no
Do antibiotics help in curing mumps?
Mumps is caused by a virus. Viruses are not affected by antibiotics. The word antibiotic means against (anti-) life (bio-). Viruses are not living but are infectious particles. Some times antibiotics are used because there may be another infection caused by a bacteria involved at the same time.
Do antibiotics treat measles?
Certainly not, Mumps is caused by a virus attacking the parotid gland (gland situated in the neck which explains the neck swelling), antibiotics kill bacteria so it is meaningless to prescribe antibiotics to treat mumps but .. Comonly patients acquire bacterial infections while having mumps mostly due to the weakened body immune system caused by the mumps itself, so doctors tend to prescribe antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection and not the mumps, but in normal cases antibiotics are not advised during mump infection because antibiotics kill the normal useful bacterial that every person have which itself help in killing the mump virus. Pharmacist Imad ...
How was mumps first used?
Mumps wasn't used as anything. Mumps is a disease, and was at first very lethal.
What are antibiotics and how are they used?
different antibiotics are used for fighting different types of bacteria.
Are there any antibiotics used in pesticides?
what happens when pesticides and antibiotics are used and how does it related to evolution
Viral disease in which the parotid glands are swollen?
Mumps.
Antibiotics are used to treat what?
Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Antibiotics cannot treat viral infections such as HPV, herpes and HIV.
How do you pronounce mumps?
you pronounce the word mumps as : mumps, just as it's spelled.
How many people did mumps kill?
Very, very few people die from the mumps; less than 50 in the US each year. Getting the mumps used to be very common, but now there are less then 1,000 cases in the US each year. Rarely any mumps cases are deadly.Only about 70 people die each year from mumps
