Antibiotics and Painkillers

• What are antibiotics used for?

  To kill bacterial pathogens inside the body
• What is the concern regarding antibiotic resistance?

  Bacteria are becoming resistant due to mutations
• Which pathogen is antibiotics effective for?


  Bacteria
• Why can’t antibiotics be used for virus diseases?


  They use body cells to reproducing meaning any drugs that target them would affect body tissue too
• What do painkillers treat?


  Symptoms of the disease rather than the cause
• What has the use of antibiotics decreased?


  The number of deaths from bacterial diseases
• How can antibiotics be taken?


  Pill, syrup or directly into the blood stream
• Give an example of an antibiotic 


  Penicillin
• What can occur during reproduction which results in certain bacteria no longer being killed by antibiotics?

  Mutations
• What is a disadvantage of what happens when bacteria being exposed to antibiotics?


  Only the non resistant bacteria dies
• What will happen if resistant bacteria survive during the use of antibiotics?


  They can reproduce meaning the population of resistant bacteria increases
• How to prevent the development of bacteria resistant strains:


  1. Stop overusing antibiotics- this unnecessarily exposes bacteria to the antibiotics
  2. Finishing courses of antibiotics to kill all of the bacteria