Antibiotics

Antibiotics are medications derived from bacteria or fungi, they used in the treatment of infectious diseases. With the development of science doctors have antibacterial agents, obtained by chemical way, acting in the same way as antibiotics. For convenience, we will call antibiotics and drugs obtained artificially.

There are 2 main type of action of antibiotics on bacteria: bacteriostatic and bactericidal. Antibiotics with bacteriostatic effect do not allow bacteria to multiply. Antibiotics with bactericidal effect lead to the death of bacteria.

Each group of antibiotics effective against certain types of bacteria, which is associated with different mechanisms of action of these drugs. Below are the most common groups of antibiotics, as well as the main diseases in which they are used.

Penicillins is the group of antibiotics, which includes the following medications: Amoxicillin, Ampicillin, Penicillin, Augmentin, etc.

Penicillins have bactericidal effect. They destroy the shell of bacteria and lead to their demise.

Cephalosporins, as well as penicillins, destroy the bacterial membrane and have a bactericidal effect. Cephalosporins is a large group of antibiotics, which includes 5 generations of medicines.

Macrolides are broad-spectrum antibiotics. Macrolides have a bacteriostatic effect. The main advantage of this group of antibiotics is the ability to penetrate into cells.

Tetracycline group of antibiotics has bacteriostatic effect.

Antibiotics, which act on different types of bacteria, and effective in the treatment of a large number of diseases, called broad-spectrum antibiotics. These antibiotics are used in the treatment of respiratory diseases, ENT organs, digestive system, urinary system, genital organs.

According to statistics, every one and a half child to adulthood is at least have one course of treatment with antibiotics. Just in case we will remind: antibiotics destroy pathogenic bacteria, but are powerless before viruses. And here there is a fascinating dilemma: when some inflammation antibiotics are very necessary, while others antibiotics are harmful.

Fully synthetic drugs, which have no natural analogues and have similar to antibiotics influence on the growth of bacteria, it was traditionally called antibacterial medications.