Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), or sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — these terms are understood as infectious diseases, the most common way of infection of which is sexual contact. More than 30 such diseases are known. Causes of STIs Infection with infections in most cases occurs in close contact with the carrier of the disease. Most […]
Antibiotics and diseases after sex
In some cases, intimacy between partners can cause health problems. At the moment, there are more than 20 varieties of the diseases after sex. All these diseases are grouped into a group of STDs. This also includes venereal infections. The infection can pass from the patient after sex, regardless of the type of contact, and […]
Antibiotics for sexual infections
In the treatment of sexual infections and sexually transmitted diseases, the main role is given to antibiotics. When inflammation, skin rashes, secretions are detected, broad-spectrum drugs are prescribed, and antiviral and antifungal agents act as “assistants”. There are no replacement drugs for the treatment of STDs. Conditionally pathogenic and pathogenic bacteria – pale treponema, gonococci, […]
Antimicrobial drugs
According to the spectrum of activity, antimicrobial drugs are divided into: antibacterial, antifungal and antiprotozoal. In addition, all antimicrobial agents are divided into drugs of a narrow and wide spectrum of action. Drugs with a narrow spectrum of action mainly on gram-positive microorganisms include, for example, natural penicillins, macrolides, lincomycin, fusidin, oxacillin, vancomycin, cephalosporins of […]
Antibiotics in the age of Covid
Antibiotics in the age of Covid: Which have already lost their effectiveness due to their irrational use? What are “reserve antibiotics” and why are many antibiotics sold without a prescription? Treatment of coronavirus infection has once again stirred up the problem of rational antibiotic therapy. Despite the fact that now they are already talking about […]
Natural antimicrobial system
The discovery and mass use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture in the second half of the XX century caused one of the main problems facing modern medicine – the emergence of resistant forms of pathogenic microorganisms. The therapeutic effectiveness and commercial success of the use of antibiotics have made our dependence on them absolute. […]
Cephalosporins and macrolides: antibiotics of the XXI century
We have already described the penicillin group in detail in previous articles, and now we will move on to the next generation of antibiotics: cephalosporins and macrolides. Cephalosporins Microbes often act, if not intelligently, then quite logically. If they are threatened by antibiotics of the penicillin series, microbes begin to destroy penicillins (that would be […]
Evolution is racing, or why antibiotics stop working
Antibiotics stop working? Since the discovery of penicillin, humanity has been constantly conducting a kind of “arms race” with the world of bacteria, which have learned to adapt quickly after the advent of new antibiotics. And, alas, today in this race we have gradually begun to lag behind the opponent. In the face of the […]
Does amoxicillin retain its position today?
Over the past 100 years, a number of discoveries and inventions in the field of chemistry and medicine can rightfully be attributed to the most significant: vaccines, X-rays, blood substitutes, the discovery of the structure of DNA. But, according to doctors, it was penicillin that became the main medical, chemical and biological discovery of the […]
Vitamin D deficiency and cystitis
Vitamin D deficiency and cystitis: inflammatory diseases of the lower urinary tract (cystitis) are among the most common urological diseases in outpatient practice. As is known, women suffer from them 30 times more often than men (the incidence rates among women are 500-700 episodes per 1000, while among men aged 21 to 50 years, the […]