Saturday, October 24, 2009

is it okay to use someone else's antibiotics? arent all antibiotics the same?


Answer:
Please do not partake in multiuse antibiotic therapy. Hypothetically you may ask this question because you yourself have -any given- infection. (Please excuse this example). In that case your infection may be caused by:
(1) A virus particulate (norovirus, Herpes virus (zoster or simplex) Beotzim virus (enveloped or non-enveloped) or any other kind of common viruses.
(2) A bacteria/infectious fungal complex that is not debilitated by the possible antibiotic you are talking about; especially if it is penicillin based (e.g. the microbe is lacking substantial lipid-based cellular membranes, having protected cell-wall synthesis etc). Since many (most) antibiotics work on the disruption of the cell-wall synthesis, the antibiotic in question may do nothing for your given infection.
Both of these points mean that the antibiotic would be useless, and only cause more harm than good (destroying the normal gastrointestinal microbiota, disturbing flora homeostasis and so on). So the answer to your first question is no, keeping in mind not only the theory of antibiotics but also the practice. (You may/probably would take a wrong dose for you body count; you may be allergic to the formulation of the antibiotic etc.)
To answer your second point antibiotics are grouped into different categories, which are fascinating to me but terminally boring to everyone else, so suffice to say that some antibiotics work on a broad range of microbes while some act on a very small number of microbes. For example, Amoxicillin is a commonly prescribed antibiotic that treats a broad spectrum of microorganisms, when combined with a CI of penicillinase (an enzyme some bacteria use which renders penicillin almost useless). On the other hand a drug like Diiodohydroxyquin (spelled correctly) works on Amoebic infections, it is solely amoebicidal. To sum up your question, if you wouldn't use someone else's nose trimmers, don't even think about using someone else's antibiotics. Thanks for letting me answer. It's been a long day.
Antibiotics are a controlled substance by the FDA to prevent their unauthorized use or their use when antibiotics will not be efficacious. As such, it is a crime to use anyone else's prescriptions even though you might need them. Yes, they are the same...ampicillin is ampicillin. However, those pills are for them. If you need some, go see a doctor and get your own.
No , antibiotics are not all the same. They are designed for specific infections. I would not advise you to use someone else's medicine. It's best to go to the doctor and get the exact antibiotic necessary for your problem.
Antibiotics are distributed in the amount need for the purpose given, If the person they are prescribed for took all that they are prescribed there should not be any left to "share" with friends. To answer you direct question, no not all antibiotics are the same, and if you happen to be allergic to one and not the other that could cause SERIOUS trouble.
No it is not. Antibiotics and their strengths are determined by your doctor based on a couple of things. First, the weight of the patient must be taken into effect to determine the correct strength of the dose. Secondly, certain antibiotics work better on certain bacterial infections than on others. If you take someone elses medication, you could have an adverse side effect that could get you sick, or even kill you (especially children).
any medicine must be taken on the advice of the doctor because especially antibiotics if by chance some of them or any one of them is not suited for your body system or are resistant to your body or the disease, then it can be fatal. SO NEVER PLAY WITH THE ANTIBIOTICS...
You can't be that stupid, can you?
There are lots of different antibiotics used for lots of different conditions. Certain strains of bacteria are resistant to certain types of antibiotics. Antibiotics are in different classes, and each class acts in a differerent way. So all antibiotics are NOT the same.Also when the physician determines which type of antibiotic is just for the type of infection you have, they need to dose it properly. This may involve using your weight, age, etc. Which likely isn't the same as someone else.Not only that but it's illegal to use someone else's prescription medication.
as a rule no its not OK to do that. the only possible way that it would be OK to do that is if you were told to take that exact drug in that exact dose and manner by the doctor. in addition you would need to be sure the drug had not expired and had been stored properly.
anti bio tics are far from being all the same . misuse of them by people doing things like you have asked about as well as stopping taking them before they are finished without the doctors consent are all factors that had brought us to the point of super bugs . that is bacterial infections that have been exposed to anti biotic and were not completely killed before they found a way to resist the anti biotic thus the bug lives on multiples and is spread to others who now have been infected by a changed straightened bug that is able to combat more and more of the efforts of the makers of anti biotic.
this has brought us to the brink of failure of antibiotics as a whole and that would mean the death rate from bacterial illness would be as high as it was prior to there discovery.
a person should take antibiotics exactly they way they were told to and finish the taking all the pills unless the doctor has seen them and told them to stop that one drug.

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