Antibiotics save lives but also harmful to your body. Can you tell more?...

Philippines
January 22, 2010 2:49am CST
Antibiotics is administered to kill the bacteria present in our system, depending upon the kind of illness you have. But it also kills all the living bacteria including the good bacteria which is very vital for your body to combat the bad bacteria that enters daily into our system especially the digestive tract. Can you add more useful information regarding antibiotics?
3 responses
@fishpool (186)
• China
12 Dec 10
sometimes antibiotics is useful,but you can't always use them on being ill?because it can make bacteria resistive to the antibiotic.so you can see many new antibiotis,some are only aimed to the usual illness.because the bacteria have been resistive to the old antibiotic.recently a super bacteria and it happens just for the abuse of the antibiotics.
• Philippines
15 Jul 10
You posted this 6 months ago but I hope this can help. I beg to disagree with your 2nd statement there. Antibiotics don't kill ALL the bacteria in our body. There are many different types of antibiotics meant to kill different types of bacteria. So if you have, say, Strep. (and Strep. has many species) your doctor will prescribe an antibiotic to specifically kill that specie of Strep - that's after identification in the lab. There are other things to consider too, like where the Strep was found. Is it from the throat or a wound, etc? There are like you said good or beneficial bacteria also in our bodies. The doctor will give you an antibiotic that's not too strong to kill even the good bacteria. Hopefully it works, if not then he will give a stronger or wide-ranged type of antibiotic-still specific or sensitive to the kind of bacteria that you have. What's harmful is when the doctor just keeps giving antibiotic prescription when it's not necessarily needed. This can result to resistance later on-meaning your body may not be able to respond well to certain types of antibiotics anymore because you've used them a number of times already before.
@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
22 Jan 10
Antibiotics are really a necessity in treating illnesses in hospital, clinics and other medical institutions. Some are synthetically made undergoing certain processes to combine certain ingredients obtained from plants, trees, flowers, et cetera. and then formed into capsules, tablets or liquid form after ongoing various processes. The human body, as i read on an article, is not capable of absorbing 100% of synthetic antibiotic, thereby certain residues are left in the mainstream system of the body, which causes some side effects such as skin rash, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Sometimes on occasion, once you started antibiotics, you could not just abruptly stopped it even if you feel well, as one should be tapered or undergo a weaning stage. On the other hand, natural antibiotics made from nature especially herbs are safer to use as it has a higher absorption value, almost 100% by the body.