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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.
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Do earaches require antibiotics?
No. They require investigation by a doctor who might then prescribe antibiotics if appropriate.
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 ...
What antibiotics can pregnant women take?
The doctor will prescribe a antibiotic for that.
What medicine do you take for cervicitis?
what antibiotics will a doctor normally prescribe you for cevicitis ?
How do you get rid of puss?
It requires a doctor's examination and if determined to be a bacterial infection, the doctor will prescribe medications (antibiotics) if there is puss found.
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.
Can polio be treat with antibiotics and why?
NO! poliomyelitis is caused by a virus (poliovirus). antibiotics are only effective against bacteria. *A doctor may prescribe antibiotics as supportive care but the antibiotics are not treating the polio directly.
How do you get rid of throat puss?
It requires a doctor's examination and if determined to be a bacterial infection, the doctor will prescribe medications (antibiotics) if there is puss found.
Does the vaccine for mumps contain antibiotics?
no
Is your tooth extraction infected?
A tooth extraction can get an infection. A dentist or doctor will have to prescribe antibiotics to help clear the infection.
Why antibiotics can not be used on mumps?
Mumps is caused due to viral infection of salivary glands. Antibiotics acts only on bacteria. They have absolutely no effect on viruses. Mumps also cause testicle pain in adults.
You visited a doctor because you have bad cold What if your doctors prescribe medicines for you but not antibiotics Why not?
Antibiotics do not cure the common cold since the common cold is a viral illness. Antibiotics are for bacteria, not viruses, so it would not make sense for a physician to prescribe an antibiotic for a cold and would actually be irresponsible if the physician did this.
