Antibiotics (66 Offers)
Why Antibiotics Are Essential in Different Situations?
To preserve the general effectiveness of antibiotics, it is important to follow the medical prescription to the letter. Misused, antibiotics lose their effectiveness because failure to respect certain principles contributes to the development of resistance.
National (Health Insurance) and international (World Health Organization) health authorities therefore communicate regularly on the need to follow the instructions of the prescribing physician, who has chosen the family of antibiotics and the duration of treatment for specific reasons.
Health Insurance therefore recommends:
- Do not take antibiotics without a medical prescription (prescription)
- Respect the dose, the frequency of the catches and the duration of your antibiotic treatment prescribed by a doctor
Do not use your treatment for someone else
After treatment is finished, do not reuse an antibiotic, even if you have symptoms that resemble those you had previously. Do not stop your treatment prematurely, even if your condition improves. This does not protect the effectiveness of antibiotics, on the contrary. You should take the antibiotic for the full prescribed time, no more and no less. Once the treatment is finished, return to your pharmacist all opened or unused boxes. Use of the steroids come perfect as some of them are used for Antibiotics.
Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria. Since their first use in the middle of the 20th century, they have made it possible to advance in the treatment of infectious bacterial diseases. But their massive and often inappropriate use gives rise to resistance.
What Is An Antibiotic?
The antibiotics are compounds drug molecules preventing the development of bacteria. There are several families of antibiotics. Each antibiotic specifically attacks one bacterium or a small group of bacteria. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses or fungi.
How To Preserve The Effectiveness Of Antibiotics?
The inappropriate and too often incorrect use of antibiotics has contributed to the development and spread of bacteria which have become resistant to antibiotics. This resistance develops when a bacterium transforms and develops defense mechanisms, reducing or canceling the action of the antibiotics that fight it.
This resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, called antibiotic resistance, has developed gradually and could become one of the main causes of death in the world: it is thought to cause nearly 12,500 deaths each year. This resistance calls into question the ability to cure even the most common infections. To fight against the development of bacterial resistance and preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics, two measures are essential.
Prevent infections
This is the first step in the fight against antibiotic resistance. An infection avoided: it is an antibiotic preserved!
To prevent infections:
Wash your hands frequently, especially after going to the bathroom, when you come home from work, before preparing a meal, after sneezing and blowing your nose, before and after caring for someone, before and after have taken care of your animal. Trust your doctor because he knows when antibiotics are needed and when they are not. Do not take antibiotics without a prescription and without medical advice.