Antibiotics: harm or benefit

Is IT true that all antibiotics are very harmful and it is better to never take them at all? Natalia Zlatous, Moscow .

 

Pharmacologist Oleg Bychkovsky answers :

 

- Definitely it is impossible to say. Antibiotics , fighting pathogenic microbes, really "at the same time" kill the beneficial microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. Many people are allergic to antibiotics ...

 

Of course, you should not swallow them with a common cold. But these drugs are indispensable for acute pyelonephritis, pneumonia, otitis media, complicated sinusitis, abscesses, sepsis, chlamydia, infective endocarditis and other very serious diseases.

 

Of course, you can't "prescribe" antibiotics to yourself. The fact is that there is no “universal” antibiotic. All of them have a different spectrum of action. For example, penicillin is effective for pneumonia caused by staphylococcal infection, but for inflammation of the lungs, the cause of which is mycoplasma, it will not give any result. [ADD-1]

 

Correctly and with the least risk to your Health, an analysis will help the Doctor choose an antibiotic - sowing blood, urine or sputum for sensitivity to the drug.

 

And to smooth out the negative effect of antibiotics on the body and restore the microflora, bifidobacteria contained in fermented Milk products and modern preparations - probiotics help.

 

Are antibiotics effective against all microorganisms that cause disease? Sergey Abramov, Vladimir.

 

- Not at all. Antibiotics (penicillin, ampicillin , erythromycin , tsifran, etc.) are prescribed only for bacterial infections. Viruses are neither cold nor hot from antibiotics. Therefore, with influenza, rubella, herpes, hepatitis, chickenpox, immunoglobulin, interferon and antiviral drugs will help.

 

There is also such a moment as addiction to an antibiotic, when, in a chronic illness, harmful bacteria adapt and stop responding to the drug. Therefore, in chronic pyelonephritis (inflammation of the renal pelvis), for example, antibiotics are prescribed only during an exacerbation. And then synthetic antibacterial agents (furagin, nitroxoline, palin, etc.) are prescribed.

 

“I am a very weather dependent person. Head and pulling pains in the abdomen are pursued by any fluctuation in atmospheric pressure. They say that a new method of treating headaches using craniosacral therapy and visceral chiropractic has appeared in Moscow. Tell us what it is and what other diseases can be cured? Boris Siropchik, 45 years old, Minsk .”

 

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For clarification, we turned to the Director of the medical health complex "O.D.A." Anatoly Vladimirovich Klyuev.

 

- As you know, many diseases arise due to a diseased spine, which, in turn, is closely related to the bones of the skull. Craniosacral therapy can help you get rid of the problems. In other words - a contact effect on the bones of the skull. A doctor who owns this technique corrects the fluctuation of the bones of the skull, as if building them in the right order, aligning their position. Thus, the rhythms of their movement are restored.

[ADD-3]To feel the biorhythms of the bones of the skull and influence them, many years of practice and special sensitivity of the doctor's hands are needed.

 

 

Already after several sessions, you can completely get rid of hypertension, various headaches (which haunt weather-dependent people), insomnia, diseases of internal organs.

 

As for visceral chiropractic, this is an old technique widely used in Rus'. Its meaning lies in the fact that by massaging the abdomen in a certain way, it is possible to achieve a cure for the small intestine, reproductive system, stomach, spleen, etc. The doctor, by pressing his hand on certain areas of the anterior abdominal wall, achieves the disappearance of pain in the abdominal organs. As a result, discomfort and painful symptoms disappear for a long time.