LIST OF POSSIBLE UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS OF PENICILLIN ANTIBIOTICS

Allergic reactions: urticaria, rash, Quincke’s edema, fever, eosinophilia, bronchospasm, anaphylactic shock (more often when using benzylpenicillin). Measures to help with the development of anaphylactic shock: ensuring the airway patency, oxygen cushion, adrenaline, prednisone. From the Central nervous system: headache, tremors, convulsions (more often in children and in patients with renal insufficiency when using carbenicillin or…

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WHEN ANTIBIOTICS ARE PRESCRIBED

Natural penicillins. Diseases that are treated primarily with penicillin antibiotics include tonsillopharyngitis, scarlet fever, erysipelas, community-acquired pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis, meningococcal infections, syphilis, leptospirosis, tick-borne borreliosis, gas gangrene, and actinomycosis. There are antibiotics that need to be taken several times a day, and there are those that are taken once a month. They have a prolonged…

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GROUP OF ANTIBIOTICS

The group of antibiotics under the General name “penicillins” includes the following drugs: amoxicillin, ampicillin, ampicillin with sulbactam, benzylpenicillin, cloxacillin, coamoxylav (amoxicillin with clavualanic acid), Flucloxacillin, methicillin, oxacillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin. Cephalosporins: cefaclor, cefadroxil, cefixime, cefoperazone, Cefotaxime, cefoxitin, cefpirome, cefsulodin, ceftazidime, ceftizoxime, Ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, cephalexin, cephalothin, of cefamandol, Cefazolin, cefradine. Penicillins and cephalosporins together with the antibiotics…

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GENERAL FEATURES OF ANTIBACTERIAL DRUGS

Antibiotics are substances that selectively suppress the vital activity of microorganisms. “Selective influence” refers to the activity exclusively in the relationship of microorganisms while preserving the viability of host cells and the impact not on all, but only on certain genera and types of microorganisms. For example, fusidic acid has a high activity against staphylococci,…

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ALL GENIUS OPENS BY ACCIDENT?

Let us try to reconstruct the chain of almost incredible accidents and coincidences that preceded the great discovery. The root cause was, oddly enough, the slovenliness of A. Fleming. Absent-mindedness is common to many scientists, but it does not always lead to such positive results. So, A. Fleming did not clean the cups from under…

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