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Antioxidants and hearing loss from antibiotics

So, antioxidants. Among the drugs of the class of antibiotics, there are practically no such drugs that do not have side effects and sometimes they are extremely dangerous. Scientists have found a way to combat one of the side effects of antibiotics – hearing loss. In the decades since the introduction of antibiotics in the […]

Vaccination in developing countries

Vaccination against pneumococcal infection in children in developing countries will not only reduce the incidence of pneumonia, meningitis and other dangerous diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, but also slow down the development of drug resistance of the bacterium. The use of a conjugate vaccine for the prevention of pneumococcal infections reduces the incidence of infection […]

Microbe vs Antibiotic

Microbe vs antibiotic: In the global battle against antibiotic resistance, where on the one hand – pharmaceutical giants and governments, ordinary doctors and patients, and on the other – escherichia coli, mycobacteria and vibrio cholerae, no one has emerged victorious, and it is still unknown which side has the upper hand. Just 60-plus years after […]

How the world is developing new antibiotics

Developing new antibiotics: Antibiotics are no longer a panacea: bacteria evolve, ceasing to respond to once-powerful drugs. Our body’s resistance to antibiotics is also developing. In 2019, according to the WHO, the number of cases of tuberculosis resistant to several drugs at once in Russia was 5.4 per 100 thousand people. How much in the […]

Amoxil is a powerful antibacterial drug

Amoxil is a powerful antibacterial drug! The appearance of amoxicillin protected by clavulanic acid on the market is difficult to overestimate. After all, antibiotics are one of the main classes of medicines, without which modern medicine is simply unthinkable. At the same time, despite the fact that the nomenclature of this class of drugs today […]

New generation of antibacterial agents

New generation antibacterial agents (antibiotics) are substances of biological or semi – synthetic origin. They are used in medical practice to combat pathogenic microbes and viruses. Before the appearance of these medicines, the status of incurable diseases was in typhoid fever, dysentery, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. Today, the treatment of infectious diseases is possible with the […]

How antibiotics work

Some swallow antibiotics at the slightest runny nose, others categorically refuse to take them even with severe pneumonia, considering them terribly harmful. Because they don’t understand how antibiotics work. He and the other approach is completely wrong. Antibiotics do help with many severe infections, but only if taken correctly. To understand in which case the […]

The use of antibiotics in ancient times

Antibiotics in ancient times: According to historical sources, many millennia ago, our ancestors, faced with diseases caused by microorganisms, fought them with available means. Over time, humanity began to understand why certain drugs used since ancient times are able to affect certain diseases, and learned to invent new drugs. Now the amount of funds used […]

Amoxicillin during pregnancy

Taking medications with antibacterial properties is sometimes necessary during pregnancy, because the immunity of women in the position weakens, so the risk of catching a cold or some kind of infection is quite high. And if the expectant mother is faced with a dangerous disease for her or the fetus caused by bacteria, you have […]

The effect of antibiotics on living organisms

Effect of antibiotics: Antibiotics entered people’s lives more than half a century ago. Thanks to them, pneumonia, tuberculosis, gangrene and other infections have ceased to be deadly to humans. Our modern life is impossible to imagine without antibiotics. Today they are used everywhere: in agriculture, household chemicals, food industry, medicine (amoxil), etc. Undoubtedly, their use […]

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