How effective does an antibiotic appear from ingestion?

by Jernej Furman

As a result of consultation at the hospital, antibiotics may be prescribed. Although it is an antibiotic that may have impression that it is not quite effective depending on people, it is not only "not by man" but also "depending on what kind of bacteria" "what kind of symptoms" "how is the immune reaction", "when did you start drinking" , There seems to be a difference in appearance of that effect.

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According to Christine Carson and Tim Inglis at Western Australia University, antibiotics are effective for treating infectious diseases caused by "bacteria" such as Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, Staphylococcus, etc. However, influenza virus and Norovirus It is said that it will not work for "virus" such as "fungus" which is the cause of Candida and ringworm. Even with diseases caused by bacteria, antibiotics are less effective for acute otitis media and sinusitis.

Broadly speaking, antibiotics are broadly divided into broad antibiotics effective for various bacteria such as macrolide antibiotics and quinolone antibiotics and narrow antibiotics effective only for some bacteria such as benzyl penicillin . Since it works for various kinds of bacteria, it is not necessary to use broad antibiotics for the time being, and in order not to affect other bacteria, benzyl penicillin is used at the time of infection caused by Streptococcus pneumonia I will.

However, there are instances where bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. For example, it is known that Neisseria gonorrhoeae causing gonorrhea have acquired resistance to various antibiotics.

In other words, how to choose antibiotics appropriate for a doctor will depend on whether antibiotics work or not. However, if it is a "perfect world", what kind of person is the patient, what is the nature of the infection, what kind of bacteria are causing the infection, whatever the function of the antibiotic against the bacteria Whether to select antibiotics to carefully prescribe by combining information such as, 2 to 4 days is necessary for the process, in fact the patient seeking a treatment method immediately before the doctor's eyes There is a situation that there is. Although attempts have been made to speed up the process, there are no effective ones yet, and the current situation is prescribed as a result of "best guess".

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Antibiotics include bactericides that kill bacteria and bacteriostats that stop the growth of bacteria, but in any case, the goal of treatment with antibiotics is to expel bacteria that cause disease from the body. However, some bacteria have bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which takes time until the effect appears even if an appropriate antibiotic is administered, and defense reaction to antibiotics may occur.

For this reason, as with stomach medicine, "It does not take effect immediately after drinking", but the symptoms are prolonged, there seems to be a case where it seems as though antibiotics are not working.