Antibiotics

• What should you be able to describe by the end of the video?

  How diseases can be treated using antibiotics
• What is meant by antibiotic resistance?

  Bacteria evolving to resist antibiotics
• Why is antibiotic resistance a problem?

  Bacterial diseases may become difficult to treat
• What significant change occurred around the 1940s regarding bacterial diseases?

  The first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered
• How do antibiotics like penicillin work?

  They kill infected bacteria without harming body cells
• What led to the development of antibiotic resistance?

  Overuse of antibiotics by doctors
• What do scientists call the phenomenon of bacteria not being killed by antibiotics?

  Antibiotic resistance
• What is a potential future consequence of antibiotic resistance?

  Bacterial diseases may become hard to treat
• Why are doctors careful when prescribing antibiotics?

  They use specific antibiotics for specific bacteria
• Can antibiotics kill viruses?

  No, antibiotics cannot kill viruses
• Why won't doctors prescribe antibiotics for viral conditions?

  Because antibiotics do not affect viruses
• What is one type of drug that doctors prescribe for pain?

  Painkillers
• How do painkillers treat diseases?

  By relieving pain, not killing pathogens
• Why is it difficult to develop drugs that kill viruses?

  They reproduce inside human cells
• What will you find plenty of questions on in the vision workbook?

  Antibiotics
• What are the key points about antibiotics that need to be learned?

  • Specific antibiotics treat specific bacteria
  • Antibiotics cannot kill viruses
  • Painkillers relieve symptoms but do not kill pathogens
• What are the implications of antibiotic resistance for future treatments?

  • Bacterial diseases may become harder to treat
  • Increased risk of untreatable infections
  • Need for new antibiotics and treatments