After learning about Addie, think about infections that you or family members had. Have you or a family member ever taken antibiotics for an infection/skin infection/rash/ear infection/chest cold? What happened?

Yes, I have taken antibiotics for an infection or infectious disease.

Antibiotics are specialized drugs to generate bacteriostatic or bactericidal effects in BACTERIA.

These, like all drugs, have adverse effects that may be worse or less serious according to the potency of the drug.

Each antibiotic has different spectra of bacteria, that is, they can affect more or less bacterial species.

Explanation:

That antibiotics are bacteriostatic implies that they stop bacterial metabolism, and that they are bactericidal indicate that they eliminate or kill the bacteria, each antibiotic is special for each bacterium.

In infectious diseases or infections it is important to know what bacteria we are facing, doing a culture to detect the species and also an antibiogram that warns us to which antibiotic this bacteria is resistant, if it is.

In this way, antibiotic therapy will be effective since the bacteria will be within the spectrum of the chosen drug and will not present resistance, these diagnostic methods are necessary because there are bacteria with beta-lactamases as a resistance factor, that is, resistant to beta lactams, it is for That is why an inhibitor of these enzymes was launched so that these bacteria cannot destroy the drug and have efficacy at the end of the day, this beta-tetramase inhibitor is clavulanic acid, which together with penicillin were the great discovery of pharmacology.