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[Roland]

A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.

ADJECTIVE relating to, involving, or denoting antibiotics.

Antibiotics are medications used to treat and, in some cases, prevent bacterial infections.

They can be used to treat relatively mild conditions such as acne, as well as potentially life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia.

However, antibiotics often have no benefit for many other types of infection. Using them unnecessarily would only increase the risk of antibiotic resistance, so they are not routinely used. Well beside pigeon fanciers I guess.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Antibiotics-penicillins/Pages/Introduction.aspx

 

Antibiotics may be used to treat, or in some cases prevent, bacterial infections.

However, your GP will only prescribe antibiotics to treat: (I wonder why lol).

conditions that are not especially serious but are unlikely to clear up without the use of antibiotics, such as moderately severe acne

conditions that are not especially serious but could spread to other people if not promptly treated, such as the skin infection impetigo or the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia

conditions where evidence suggests that antibiotics could significantly speed up recovery, such as a kidney infection

conditions that carry a risk of more serious complications, such as cellulitis or pneumonia

 

But again except the pigeon fancy lol

[THE FIFER]

interesting, also doctors dont like giving antibiotics to youngsters for colds etc as it interferes with the immune system,

[Froog]

interesting, also doctors dont like giving antibiotics to youngsters for colds etc as it interferes with the immune system,

The common cold is a Virus, anti biotics don't treat viruses, they only treat, bacterial etc, that when immune system gets run down fighting virus, other bacterial etc might get a foothold