Drugs / Medicines

• Medications can be divided into two groups: those that relieve symptoms and those that treat the disease.
• Painkillers like aspirin or paracetamol can relieve symptoms such as sore throat and headache.
• Antibiotics do not work on viruses, as they are specifically designed to target bacteria.
• Antibiotic resistance is a problem where bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, limiting their effectiveness.
• Cough medicine can reduce the need to cough.
• Antibiotics can directly kill bacteria or prevent their growth, treating the root cause of the disease.
• Antibiotics can only kill certain types of bacteria, so a test may be needed to determine the appropriate antibiotic.
• Medications have revolutionized medicine by improving quality of life and extending lives.
• Antibiotics, such as penicillin, are medicines that help to cure bacterial disease by killing infective bacteria inside the body. It is important that specific bacteria should be treated by specific antibiotics.
• The use of antibiotics has greatly reduced deaths from infectious bacterial diseases. However, the emergence of strains resistant to antibiotics is of great concern.
• Antibiotics cannot kill viral pathogens.
• Painkillers and other medicines are used to treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill pathogens.
• It is difficult to develop drugs that kill viruses without also damaging the body’s tissues