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Why can antibiotics that selectively target bacterial ribosomes cause side effects for patients?
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∙ 15y ago
It has to do with the difference in composition of ribosomes in the eukaryotic cells versus the prokaryotic cell.
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∙ 15y agoThey affect them mitochondria.
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Why didn't hospitals prescribe antibiotics to sars patients?
SARS is caused by a virus. Antibiotics only help with bacterial infections and don't have any effect on viral infections.
Is it reasonable to take antibiotics for heatstroke?
recent evidence shows bacterial translocation from gut into the blood in the pathogenesis of heat stroke.however,the patients recover spontaneously without antibiotics. and hence it is not advisable to take antibiotics unless confirmed by blood culture.
Will antibiotics help prevent bacterial infections in patients with perforated eardrums?
Yes it will. Also not chewing so loud and snoring less will help too
Nursing responsibilities before and after giving antibiotics?
Check allergies, check liver and renal function.
Can AIDS be treated with antibiotics?
False. There is no cure yet for AIDS. Antibiotics work on bacteria. So if an AIDS patient gets a secondary bacterial infection, it would be appropriate for them to take antibiotics to help with the bacterial infection. AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, so antibiotics would be ineffective for treatment of the AIDS itself, just secondary infections associated with the AIDS. They are especially prone to these because of the lowered ability of AIDS patients' immune systems to fight disease.
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 is multi focal pneumonia treated?
If the pneumonia is bacterial, the patient will be given antibiotics, she says. But, Dr. Sood points out, "most patients with viral pneumonia do not require antibiotics." Instead, they maybe treated with an antiviral medication like oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or remdesivir, depending on the cause of the infection.
What is a sentence for the word antibiotics?
Doctors use antibiotics on patients to prevent infections. Antibiotics fight germs that can cause illness.
Why are antibiotics used?
The proper usage of antibiotics is to stop acute bacterial infections. But they have also been use as a growth promoter in cattle and to prevent bacterial infection. Both of these uses accelerate bacterial evolution of antibiotic resistance. Sometime doctors have prescribed antibiotics to their patients with viral infections (which the antibiotics have no effect on) either because the patients insisted on taking antibiotics or to prevent a secondary bacterial infection from developing as a complication. Both of these uses accelerate bacterial evolution of antibiotic resistance. When prescribed an antibiotic it is essential that you take all the medication exactly as prescribed until you use it all up. Not doing so will frequently leave the last and most antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body and the infection might flare up again and that antibiotic would now be ineffective and a different stronger antibiotic that might have bad side effects might now be required! Due to improper usage of antibiotics there are now a few bacteria that are completely resistant to every antibiotic currently on the market, except for one: Vancomycin. Continued misuse could also rapidly produce Vancomycin resistant bacteria too meaning that eventually many bacterial infections would be as untreatable and often fatal as they were prior to 1942, when Penicillin was first introduced on the market.
What type of antibiotics are taken for Lyme Disease in humans?
Antibiotics are not taken by the patients. They are prescribed by the physician.
What are the most common bactyerial infections of the digestive tract?
The most common bacterial infections of the digestive tract are caused by Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Yersinia. Patients taking certain antibiotics may be susceptible to infection with Clostridium difficile
What are the treatments for a prostate infection?
Patients with chronic bacterial prostatitis can have persistence of their infectious problem despite antibiotic use. Because, the difficulty antibiotics have in penetrating the prostate gland to completely kill all the bacteria deep within the prosthetic ducts. This is a bacterial infection, usually treated by a combination of anti-inflammatory medications, alpha blockers, and antibiotics. The symptoms include extreme pain and problems with urinary functions. remedy-prostate-infection.com
