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Penicillin
Penicillin refers to various antibiotics obtained from penicillium fungi or produced synthetically. It was the first drug that was effective in treating different diseases and infections such as Staphylococcus and syphilis.
1,118 Questions
How do you give a horse penicillin?
Penicillin needs to be injected intramuscular so the breast works really good or divide the dose into two and do one shot in each leg up in the muscle
Why did florey and chain start mass-producing penicillin in the US Of America?
It was world war 2 so a drug for bacteria infection was needed urgently
Can you take tizanidine if you are allergic to penicillin?
Tizanidine is muscle relaxant and it has nothing to do with penicillin. Penicillin is an antibiotic. You can be simultaneously allergic to Tizanidine also.
How soon can I eat after taking penicillin?
If the Penicillin says to take on an empty stomach, take an hour before eating, or two hours after.
Some penicillins can be taken with meals. Just read the label.
Why do antibiotics kill bacteria and not human cells?
Because bacterial cells and human cells aren't the same. Penicillin works by interfering with how bacterial cell walls are built, and human cells don't have bacterial cell walls. (Turns out all bacterial cells aren't the same, either, but penicillin works against a lot of them.) One of the challenges in medicine is finding antibiotics that work against bacteria's biology, but that don't interfere with human biology. This is called selectivity. It's a really important principle of medications against all infections (you want the drug to selectively kill the infecting organism instead of your own cells) and against cancer, too (you want the drug to selectively kill the cancer cells instead of the healthy ones).
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No. Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin.
Can you use penicillin for herpes infection?
No, penicillin is an 'antibiotic', i.e. active against bacterial caused infections. Herpes is a viralinfection and thus penicillin does not touch it. Viral infections are hard to treat (it is only the body's own defenses that really work), however there are some 'antiviral' medicines that can help.
Why is penicillin V called penicillin V?
Penicillin G procaine is an antibiotic that is given by injection into a muscle. It is approved to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body. It does not work to treat viral infections, such as the common cold. Note: The above is a quote from the website linked below. What does G in penicillin G stand for? The letter G in penicillin G stands for the phrase gold standard, as in gold standard Penicillin
Where to inject penicillin for a dog?
You should give a penicillin shot in the fat under the skin, not IM or in the muscle. Due to possible complications resulting from shots in dogs, I would reccomend injecting it into the fat under the skin in the leg. Grab the skin/fur on the hip, pull it away from the body a little bit (don't hurt the dog) and inject it underneath the skin between the skin and muscle. Be sure all air has been expelled from the needle, and be ready to apply some pressure to the plunger on the needle. Penicillin is very thick and may require some force to inject thru the needle.
Why doesn't penicillin cure the disease tetanus?
While the species itself is sensitive to penicillin, suffering significant reduction in population, the tetanus toxoid produced during bacterial metabolism is the causative agent of tetanus. Definitive treatment requires the administration of tetanus immune globulin to isolate and prevent the toxin from working within the body.
Can you take vancomycin if you are allergic to erythromycin?
yes, they belong to different classes of drugs
How do you turn bread mold in penicillin?
Bread mold does not turn into penicillin. Bread mold makes penicillin as aby-product of its metabolic processes. Penicillin is manufactured by growing bread mould in a nutrient and stripping off the produced penicillin in the same manner that alcohol is made by yeast and the alcohol recovered.
If a person is allergic to penicillium would they be allergic to penicillin?
Yes penicillin is made from a form of penicillium
When was penicillin developed?
Penicillin was first discovered in 1928, by Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming.
It was a mistake. He left a petri dish with staphylococcus was left open and found with green - blue mould in it.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 by compete accident. The discovery was made after leaving his desk untidy whilst on holiday. He was working with another substance in staphylococci and left this to go mouldy, it was only later he discovered it had bacteria fighting agents and could be sued as an anti body.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by a Scottish scientist.
Why is penicillin not as effective as it was fifty years ago?
This isn't entirely true. Penicillin is still as effective against the bacteria that it combated 50 years ago, but new strains of penicillin resistant bacteria have evolved since 50 years ago. This means that penicillin is less effective against a larger percentage of bacteria than it was 50 years ago, solely because of the new, anti-biotic resistant strains.
For more information, search Natural Selection.
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