Antibacterial drugs are widely used in everyday life, but they are not well known to many and are often misused or abused. Understanding how to distinguish antibacterial drugs is essential for rational use and health.
First, we need to understand the definition and use of antibacterial drugs. Antibacterial drugs are one of the types of drugs that can suppress or kill micro-organisms such as bacteria and are used mainly for the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections and skin soft tissue infections. Common amoxins, fursin, achicin, etc. are antibacterial drugs. They function by interfering with the process of cytowall synthesis, protein synthesis or nucleic acid metabolism of bacteria, thus helping the human immune system to overcome bacterial infections. However, antibacterial drugs are ineffective against viral infections, such as common influenza and influenza, and the use of antibacterial drugs is not only unhelpful, but may also lead to adverse reactions and the emergence of bacterial resistance.
Getting to know the name characteristics of antibacterial drugs helps us identify them. The names of anti-bacterial drugs often follow a certain pattern, and many of them contain specific suffix or root. For example, drugs that end with “silin”, such as Amoxilin, ammonium silin and so on, are penicillin-type antibacterials; drugs that start with “heads”, such as thallol and thalacylene, are sepsis-like; and those that end with “salts”, such as left-oxen fluorine, cyclopropazalin and so on, are quinone-type antibacterials. These landmark words allow us to make a preliminary assessment of whether the drug is antibacterial.
It is also crucial to distinguish between the symptoms of drug use and the disease. Antibacterial treatment is appropriate when we have symptoms such as heat, cough, somatic pain, if it is caused by bacterial infections, such as high fever and coughing and coughing from bacterial pneumonia. However, the use of anti-bacterial drugs is not required if the virus’s flu is caused by low-heat, dry cough, snot, etc. In general, if the symptoms are light and self-restricted, such as common influenza, which is usually viral, it is recommended that more rest, water and self-immunization should be used; and when the symptoms continue to increase, accompanied by a high fever and a sepsis, there may be bacterial infections, medical attention should be provided in a timely manner and a doctor should determine whether antibacterial drugs are needed.
Access to drug manuals is an important step in the accurate identification of antibacterial drugs. In the “adaptation disorder” or “functional treatment” section of the instructions, if there is a specific reference to the treatment of various bacterial infectious diseases such as respiratory infections, urinary infections, skin infections, etc., caused by specific bacteria, then the drug is presumably antibacterial. At the same time, attention is drawn to the “pharmacology” section of the manual, which provides details of the mechanism of the drug, and antibacterial drugs usually describe its inhibition or extinction principles for bacteria.
In our daily lives, we also need to be alert to some mistakes. It is important not to use drugs on the basis of experience alone, but to take them on its own this time because the last time a disease was effective using some antibacterial drug. Also, antibacterial drugs recommended by others should not be used at random, and each person is in different medical and physical conditions, and a suitable drug for another person may not be suitable for himself. In addition, avoiding the abuse of antibacterial drugs for the prevention of infection, such as the early use of antibacterial drugs without the risk of bacterial infection, is a very wrong approach, not only to prevent disease, but also to disrupt the normal balance of human bacteria and increase the risk of bacterial resistance.
The correct separation of antibacterial drugs is the basis for our health care. Only by understanding the characteristics, uses and methods of distinguishing between antibacterial drugs can the abuse of antibacterial drugs be avoided, so that they can be most therapeutic when they are really needed, while reducing the occurrence of adverse reactions and bacterial resistance and protecting the health of ourselves and our families.
