Antibiotics&Painkillers

Created by: jadedarby12
Created on: 09-11-16 16:52


	Antibiotics&Painkillers
	Advantages painkillers: Drugs such as aspirin and paracetomol can be very useful for headaches or sore throats Antibiotics: Kills bacteria in your body Damage bacteria cells without harming your own cells	Disadvantages Painkillers: No effect on viruses that have entered tissue Don't kill pathogens- Don't cure you any faster-have to wait for immune system to over come pathogens before you get well again Antibiotics: Cannot kill viral pathogens Strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are evolving
	Evaluation painkillers are actually not as useful as you think they are. Also when an antibiotic has been in your blood stream so many times when it isn't really needed it wont work when you seriously need it.

Antibiotics&Painkillers

Advantages

painkillers:
Drugs such as aspirin and paracetomol can be very useful for headaches or sore throats
Antibiotics:
Kills bacteria in your body
Damage bacteria cells without harming your own cells

Disadvantages

Painkillers:
No effect on viruses that have entered tissue
Don't kill pathogens-
Don't cure you any faster-have to wait for immune system to over come pathogens before you get well again
Antibiotics:
Cannot kill viral pathogens
Strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are evolving

Evaluation

painkillers are actually not as useful as you think they are. Also when an antibiotic has been in your blood stream so many times when it isn't really needed it wont work when you seriously need it.

Comments

ybjoby

Report Thu 8th June, 2017 @ 12:46

Very useful thank you

Call_of_Random646

Report Thu 11th January, 2018 @ 16:23

A disadvantage of Painkillers is that they can actually SLOW DOWN the speed of recovery if they lower a fever too much, giving the chance for the pathogens to recover and leaving only the more resistant ones left.

Garen

Report Thu 26th April, 2018 @ 06:37

short concise but all very useful

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Antibiotics&Painkillers