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Find out here when to take antibiotics and when to avoid using them

Many doctors have been complaining lately about the fact that people use too frequent antibiotic drugs, even when they do not have to, in this way increasing the number of antibiotics that will no longer be used due to germ resistance development.

You should always keep in mind that antibiotics are working only against bacteria and have zero effect upon viruses.

You can find bacteria everywhere around you, as these microscopic germs live in the air, in the soil and in the water too. Don’t panic, as a lot of these bacteria are friendly and beneficial to humans (in example: we have bacteria living in our intestines-this is the intestinal flora which helps our digestion a lot and is essential for a perfect immune system). There are other bacterium types like the cocci or the bacilli which can harm our organism by causing different infections in different parts of our body. Using antibiotics will most likely kill bacteria or at least prevent its multiplication. The friendly flora in our body can also be affected by the use of antibiotics in a certain manner, but it will not be destroyed that easily as we might think.

If you catch a cold or flu, go for a medical check up, but do not be disappointed if the doctor does not prescribe you antibiotic drugs. Doctors know that viruses are usually responsible for colds and flu and since antibiotics do now work on viruses there is no point for you to use them. Listen to your doctor and don’t go running to your personal stock of pills for each small symptom of a cold. By letting your doctor know how your cold is affecting your organism and how it is evolving he should be able to guide you on what medicines you should take further on and if antibiotics are necessarily to use at some point.

The problem with using antibiotic drugs is that bacteria seem to have developed a method of getting more and more resistant to these drugs, and the pressing world problem is about what are we going to do when antibiotics will not be efficient any more against bacteria. Scientists are working on developing new types of antibiotics, but this is a slow process and bacteria keep on getting resistance thanks to our excessive usage of antibiotics.

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