Re: just a few purrs please ...

On 2006-02-28, jmcquown penned:
Antibiotics kill VIRUSES not bacteria. They do nothing against
bacterial infections, which is why doctors get so frustrated when
patients insist on antibiotics for a bacteriological infection. In
your case you had a double whammy <ouch!> but in most cases an
antibiotic won't do a darned thing against a bacterial infection.


I'm sorry, Jill, but you have it backwards.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question88.htm

" Antibiotics work to kill bacteria. Bacteria are single-cell
organisms. If bacteria make it past our immune systems and start
reproducing inside our bodies, they cause disease. We want to kill the
bacteria to eliminate the disease."
....
"Antibiotics do not work on viruses because viruses are not alive. A
bacterium is a living, reproducing lifeform. A virus is just a piece
of DNA (or RNA). A virus injects its DNA into a living cell and has
that cell reproduce more of the viral DNA. With a virus there is
nothing to "kill," so antibiotics don't work on it."

There are also such things as antivirals, although as far as I know,
you never get rid of a virus; it stays in your body forever.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

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