Are antibiotics the same as anti-inflammatory drugs?

Antibiotics are a commonly used drug. However, when using antibiotics, people often encounter antibiotic misunderstandings. If we do not understand them, there are many disadvantages to our health.

Antibiotics are drugs that inhibit and kill all life substances at very low concentrations. For example, our drugs for bacteria, viruses, parasites, and even anti-tumor are all in the scope of antibiotics.

Antibiotics are not suitable for the common cases of blood stasis, swelling, pain, contact dermatitis caused by allergic reactions, drug-induced dermatitis, and virus-induced inflammation. Moreover, antibiotics are aimed at the microorganisms that cause inflammation, and they are killing microorganisms without preventing infection.

　　Misunderstanding 1: Antibiotics = anti-inflammatory drugs

Antibiotics do not play a direct role in inflammation, but are used to kill microorganisms that cause inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs are targeted at inflammation, such as commonly used aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs. Antibiotics are not suitable for the treatment of common local soft tissue congestion, redness, swelling, pain, contact dermatitis caused by allergic reactions, drug-induced dermatitis, and virus-induced inflammation.

　　Misunderstanding 2: antibiotics can prevent infection

Antibiotics are aimed at microorganisms that cause inflammation. They are killing microorganisms without preventing infection. On the contrary, long-term use of antibiotics will cause bacterial resistance.

　　Misunderstanding 3: broad-spectrum antibiotics are better than narrow-spectrum antibiotics

The principle of antibiotic use is to use narrow spectrum instead of broad spectrum; to use low-level instead of advanced; To use one solution, there is no need for two solutions; mild or moderate infections are generally not combined with antibiotics. Broad-spectrum antibiotics can be used when there is no specific pathogenic microorganisms, if it is clear that the pathogenic microorganisms are better to use narrow-spectrum antibiotics, otherwise it is easy to enhance the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.

　　Misunderstanding 4: new antibiotics are better than old ones, and expensive antibiotics are better than old ones

In fact, each type of antibiotic has its own characteristics, and its advantages and disadvantages are different. Generally, patients and individuals must choose to give individualized medicines. The birth of new antibiotics is often because old antibiotics are resistant. If old antibiotics are effective, they should be used.

　　Misunderstanding 5: The more types of use, the more effective

The more types of combined medication, the higher the toxic side effects and adverse reactions. In general, to avoid drug resistance and toxic side effects, we should never use either of the two types of problems that can be solved with an antibiotic.

　　Misunderstanding 6: antibiotics are used for cold and fever

Viruses or bacteria can cause colds. Antibiotics are only useful for bacterial colds.

Antibiotics are only applicable to inflammatory fever caused by bacteria and some other microorganisms. The virus causes a fever and the antibiotics are ineffective. In addition, there are many different types of fever even caused by bacterial infection, such as fever caused by tuberculosis. If you use antibiotics blindly and delay regular antituberculosis treatment, it will lead to a false illness.

　　Misunderstanding 7: frequent antibiotics replacement

There is a periodic problem with the efficacy of antibiotics. If the efficacy of a certain antibiotic is temporarily poor, you should first consider the lack of medication time. In addition, improper administration channels and systemic immune function status can also affect the efficacy of antibiotics. If it is related to these factors, the effect will be improved as long as it is adjusted. Frequent drug replacement can lead to medication confusion and damage to the body. Moreover, frequent dressing changes can easily cause bacteria to become resistant to a variety of drugs.

　　Misunderstanding 8: drug withdrawal once effective

The use of antibiotics has a period of time. If you stop the drug if you have a certain effect, it will not only cure the disease, even if the disease has been improved, it may rebound because of the residual bacteria.

　　Misunderstanding 9: taking antibiotics to supplement probiotics

Some people think that taking antibiotics will kill many beneficial bacteria in the body, so they drink a bottle of yogurt to supplement probiotics while taking the medicine. Experts pointed out that this is actually a misunderstanding: the Role of antibiotics is sterilization, and the active bacteria in yogurt will be killed by antibiotics, so the time to take antibiotics must be staggered with the time to drink yogurt.

If antibiotics are used together with drugs containing probiotics, they may affect the efficacy of the latter. Therefore, they should be taken at least two hours apart. Some dairy products, such as yogurt, also contain probiotics. To avoid affecting the efficacy of the drug, it is not recommended to eat foods containing probiotics about half an hour before and after taking antibiotics.

Kidney disease patients are prone to colds due to poor constitution and low immune function. If the cold is not treated in time, it may cause urinary protein rebound, increase of occult blood in the urine, increase of blood pressure, or even lead to sharp deterioration of renal function. We can see that colds are a common factor that can induce and aggravate kidney disease. Many patients with kidney disease do not pay attention to the cold, just buy some anti-cold medicine, antibiotics orally or to the nearby hospital intravenous drops of antibiotics, think it will be okay if the cold is good, in fact, it is not.

Generally, you do not need to use antibiotics for colds. Only when the temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃ and the blood image is elevated can you choose to use antibiotics that have little damage to kidney function. However, no matter what type of antibiotics, it may have adverse effects on kidney production. Most patients with kidney disease are suitable for the treatment of Chinese medicine based on Syndrome Differentiation after a cold. The cold symptoms can be obviously mitigated, and the kidney function can be improved. Therefore, it is best to go to the department of Nephrology or respiratory department of traditional Chinese medicine for TCM treatment after the common kidney disease has caught a cold. The TCM or Chinese patent medicine can cure the cold without affecting the kidney function, it also enhances resistance.

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