2007-02-23 01:14:23 · 7 answers · asked by mmm 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
One full course of antibiotics is required to disable the actions and replication of bacteria from the body. When the fever has been gone, it is a sign that the body has defeated and disabled the bacteria but has not totally eliminated them. When you stop taking antibiotics, “strong” bacteria regain activity and reproduce - resistant group which will not respond to a certain antibiotics previously used. Reinfection is possible which may require another antibiotics group. There had been much resistant strain of bacteria these days which makes disease treatment complicated. That is the answer to your question.
2007-02-23 17:08:29 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't want to tempt evolution.
By killing only the suseptible bacteria, you are providing something similar to natural selection. If a small mutation makes them more resistant to the antibiotic, but not fully resistant, then you've helped push them toward being a resistant strain. In the last 60 years, dozens and dozens of bacteria have become resistant to many types of antibiotics just because people decided to quit taking them before all the bacteria had been knocked out.
2007-02-23 09:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
incomplete dose & durration will lead to development of resistance to drugs so we will be forced to use new molecules fro treatting infection
Each antibiotics when launched will cost at least 1500crores most of Indian companies can afford spend on reaearch for new molecules so we are dependent on forgin companies and as INDIA has signed GAT newer molecules will be very expensive so we have use antibiotics which are already there very carefully, half hearted use incomplete doses & drugs missused by not qulified persons with out knowing full direction how to use will lead to drug resistance so We need to use antibioitics in complete dose as per prescription by qualified Doctor. One has know dose same antibiotic changes for differnt disesaes
2007-02-23 09:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Umesh Bilagi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An ATB is something like your own "immune system,"
and when your boby doesn't have the "strength" to fight an infection itself, your the doctor will give you an ATB to help fight the infection.
However, you start to feel better , so you stop taking the ATB.
A few days later, you become extremly ill & start the ATB again, which isn't working now.
You go back to see the doctor, telling him/her you stopped taking the ATB, & when you started taking ATB again, it failed to work.
If bad enough, you may end up in the hospital, all due to not taking all of the ATB in the beginnig.
2007-02-23 11:08:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To make sure you kill off all the bacteria. If you don't finish the course of antibiotics, it is possible for the few remaining bacteria to develop resistance to the drug.
2007-02-23 09:19:36 · answer #5 · answered by animal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Infection may recur, and if organism is not killed, it may not be susceptible to the antibiotic next time it is given.
2007-02-23 09:50:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a risk of killing the susceptible bacteria and leaving the more resistant ones to multiply, this is the reason we have MRSA.
2007-02-23 09:18:03 · answer #7 · answered by David B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋