Antibiotics

It generally depends on the antibiotic. Personally, I have taken antibiotics while I was breastfeeding (as prescribed by my doctor). Always inform your doctor that you are breastfeeding and it is suggested by many to take a pro-biotic while on antibiotics to restore useful, essential bacterium.

All of them.

The 8-hour period is meant to maintain a consistent level of the drug in your system to fight the infection.. If your current schedule is not convenient for the doses, ie; 9pm - 5am - 1pm - you should talk to your pharmacist and work out a transition to something more mainstream like 11pm - 7am - 3pm or whatever fits your needs.

Yes, tetracycline has been shown to be effective as a broad spectrum antibiotic that works well against many strains of strep. However, tetracycline is pretty old and has some side effects that are not super-dangerous for most, but are still problematic. It can discolor teeth with children. You can't go out in the sun whiile taking the course. And, as with older antibiotics, there are resistant strains that it won't help. It's not a bad choice against strep (in general) -- but a choice I don't see much nowadays in America, the UK or Europe, except in dermatologicla applications. Note: Can't use this when pregnant or breast feeding.

Procaine penicillin is designed to delay the absorption of drug. So that effective level persists for twenty four hours. It should not be taken orally. You can take benzyl penicillin or crystalline penicillin orally, which again is destroyed by gastric juice and partially absorbed.

The expiration date on antibiotics is especially important to adhere to, when compared to expiration dates on most other prescription and over-the-counter drugs. When most drugs reach their expiration date, the worst thing that will happen is a slight decrease in potency, or they'll start to taste/smell/look different. This doesn't mean you should blindly ignore the dates on your prescription bottles, but it's generally not going to kill you to take an expired headache or allergy pill, and the assigned dates serve primarily a "better safe than sorry" function on behalf of the drug companies and pharmacies trying to cover all their bases in terms of patients harming themselves.

However, antibiotics are particularly time-sensitive drugs, and the primary concern is that the active drug compound will break down over time, and turn into a different chemical that is more difficult for the human body to metabolize. Specifically, these by-products can harm your kidneys and liver, and when those organs are impaired, you lose your ability to filter toxins and various chemical metabolites from your system. This can really mess up most of your bodily functions, especially your immune system, which, when weakened, is a big security hole in your body's defenses, and you have the potential to get a lot sicker than you normally would from everyday bacteria and viruses.

Another issue is that many antibiotics are dispensed in dosage delivery systems that require more maintenance on the part of the user than your average bottle of pills, which you can pretty much store anywhere and forget about. Many antibiotics are dispensed in liquid forms, which often require refrigeration or other specific temperature constraints, and like anything you keep in the fridge, there's only a limited window of time before decomposition will occur.

Antibiotics are also frequently prescribed with strict, specific dosing schedules. Most oral antibiotics require doses every 6, 8, or 12 hours, until the entire bottle of pills is finished. This is what is called a "course" of therapy, and it means that there is usually a set amount of the drug you're supposed to take over a set period of time, both in order for the drugs to reach their full effectiveness, and so that you don't take them for so long that they stop being effective at all. Drugs like certain asthma inhalers and painkillers can be taken whenever, wherever, whether you need them all the time, or only a few times per year. Antibiotics are designed to work in the opposite way, which also means that they're not designed to last as long - it's just the nature of that particular group of drugs.

One more issue is that your prescribing physicians want to monitor your antibiotic usage every time you need them. If people went around taking antibiotics every time they suspected they were sick, and didn't follow the dosing instructions, it would become harder and harder to find specific antibiotics that really worked well, that people hadn't developed tolerance to. Imagine - the very first time someone hid their spare house key underneath their doormat, it may have been a very unexpected, very good, place to hide the key, and nobody would have thought to look there. But once the idea of the doormat being a 'good hiding place' spread, it became the most obvious place someone could look if they were trying to break into your house, so it stopped being an effective method of thwarting intruders. It's a crude analogy, but antibiotics kind of work the same way.

But the major point to take away here is that antibiotics should always be taken exactly as instructed, even if you think you're sure you have an infection and you don't need to consult your doctor, and even if your prescription from two years ago looks just the same as it always did. You don't want to compromise a good way of curing basic infections just because you're lazy/cheap/think you know better, right? I didn't think so. Ask your pharmacist if you have any questions about your prescription, any prescription - that's what they're there for, and they have your best interests in mind (pharmacists can't legally (at least in the US) dispense drug samples like doctors in their offices can, and generally speaking, most pharmacists see big drug companies as obstructive, obnoxious hindrances to the administration of basic health care, and they know "their game" enough not to arbitrarily slap short expiration dates on their prescriptions just so they can make more money - that's really not how it works!).

I asked this question to my pharmacist and was told 7 days is advisable. Truly depends on the person and their sensitivity and pigmentation.

Virus develop a resistant coat outside the covering of their cell preventing any antibiotic from damaging them. Hence there is no effect on them.

Yes I asked the pharmacist if this was ok and he assured me it was fine

Sulfonamides antibiotics such as co-trimoxazole

Yes.

Physicians may prescribe these drugs to treat pneumonia, strep throat, staph infections, tonsillitis, bronchitis, and gonorrhea. These drugs will not work for colds, flu, and other infections caused by viruses.

Viral diseases (disases caused by viruses), because antibiotics attack the cell wall, and a virus doesnt have a cell wall.

P.S. Antibiotics can only cure bacterial diseases (diseases caused by bacteria.

P.S.S. Viruses arent living things.

P.S.S.S. What does P.S., P.S.S., etc. stand for?

there is probability of treating H.Pylori with cephalexin, because cephalexin is similar to beta lactam antibiotics and it is acid stable this enables it to be a suitable candidate for H.Pylori treatment.

penicillin

Azithromycin is such a low dose will act as a bacteriostatic drug. So it will stop the division of bacteria. Amoxicillin is bacteriocidal drug and act on rapidly dividing bacteria only. So in this case the amoxicillin will go to waste, means it will have no positive effect as an antibiotic.

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No. Antibiotics are medications that fight infections by various means of interrupting the functions of pathogens or killing them. Hydrocortisone is a steroid, typically used as an anti-inflammatory.

many plants go into antibiotics but we have only discovered just 1% of the plants in the rain forest so the other 99% could help created cures for things such as cancer and HIV. Things such as crocodile blood are being tested at the moment because they can heal there wounds really quickly
Hope this helps xxx
i also know that penicillin is fungi

Azithromycin.

there is a medications with azithromycin contains only 3 tablets with 500mg for each, and you take them at a period of 3 days,instead of 2 weeks like the rest of Anti-Biotics.

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There are no particular side effects to drinking alcohol with Amoxicillin, which is a penicillin based antibiotic.

Like all antibiotics, it is best taken on an empty stomach and suggested that it is taken some time before drinking alcohol so that there is plenty of time for the antibiotic to get absorbed from the stomach.

The main side effects of penicillin-based antibiotics are nausea and diarrhoea and as these can also be the side effects of an overdose of alcohol, it can sometimes be difficult to tell which side effects are which! For this reason people should keep their alcohol to the minimum when on medication.