Health Matters (17); Antibiotics and our Health

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When I was a kid, I was around a circle that really adored the use of antibiotics. At a situation of common rashes, pneumonia and other health issues, they have to run to their saviour which was antibiotics. While growing up, I learnt that antibiotics effects are different from the functioning of normal drugs. Some people do mistake antibiotics as white blood cells but they are slightly different. Let's see more about this.

Antibiotics goes into the body as artificial soldiers. As a person takes in antibiotics, it has its target of fighting against bacteria. This is where I'll spot the difference between antibiotics and white blood cells. Antibiotics's main target is to fight against bacteria only in the human body while white blood cells fight against viruses, bacteria, and other foreign invaders. What antibiotics do to the body is that it inhibits bacterial growth or possibly kills them.

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Despite the goodies that antibiotics deliver to the body, it also has some side effects that it poses to the body. Well, let's find out more

• Diarrhea: Normally, the work of antibiotics is to fight off bacteria in the human body. We know that there are useful bacteria in the gut which aid in digestion. The antibiotics will blindly fight causing the imbalance of bacteria in that region. As a result, bowel distribution will be disturbed as diarrhea can set in.
• Allergic reactions: Different human beings have different body systems and mode of adaptability. Since antibiotics are foreign soldiers, some people's system might not contain it as it can cause allergies to such people.
• Yeast infection: Since antibiotics aren't natural soldiers, they have the capability of destroying food bacteria. When these good bacteria are killed off, the rate of yeast growth will skyrocket leading to yeast infection.

As the fact has been established, antibiotics fight out bacteria in the human body. There are also instances that the bacteria proved stubborn and rendered the antibiotics useless. This explained situation can be referred to as Antibiotics Resistance. It's a problem because it poses serious complications to the person involved. To avoid this, here are guidelines I can give out

• Take in antibiotics as prescribed by a medical personnel
• Don't share your prescribed antibiotics with others.

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It's true that antibiotics can influence or affect the immune system. Let's bring in a practical aspect here; if two soldiers from different countries are asked to secure a place, each of them will try to gain control which might lead to either crisis or unity. In this case, there'll be a crisis in these forms:

• It has the ability to alter immune responses from the white blood cells and antibodies
• The immune cell function that exists as neutrophils and macrophages can be reduced making the individual prone to infection.

Yes, diseases can be treated without the use of antibiotics. The fact is that antibiotics can fight off bacteria only not other genres. Virus, protozoa and others can't be defeated with antibiotics.

Antibiotics can be used responsibly if a person follows a medical personnel's prescription and avoids any form of self medication.

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