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Quiz on Antibiotics

What Do You Know About Antibiotics?

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If you've never been on antibiotics, consider yourself lucky or a gosh darn miracle! For some of us, it's a seasonal occurrence. Yours truly seems to find a bottle of the prescribed medicine every holiday season. This year I've had more than my fair share of the pills and learned more about them than I ever cared to know. Let's see how much you know about the medicine.

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8 Comments

Spectra Spectra
5/5--I'm a microbiologist, so I sure hope I know this stuff! Doctors aren't supposed to prescribe antibiotics for sinus infections or bronchitis, since most of the time they are viral, but sometimes bronchitis can be a side effect of another bacterial infection (like pneumonia), so if you have something that's kicking around for more than a couple of weeks, they should culture your sputum and figure out what's growing in there.
while some studies have appeared to show that certain antibiotics affect the metabolism of birth contol pills, there aren't actually any that show an actual increase in birth rates. but there is a theoretical risk so doctors recommend and alternate form of protection. i'm a 3rd year medical student. i was just talking about this with my attending this morning.
tigr3bianca tigr3bianca
@imLissy, In certain cases, antibiotics are given to viral infections like bronchitis or sinusitis when they last longer than 2 weeks. There are studies that show its mainly a placebo effect.
tigr3bianca tigr3bianca
@imLissy, In certain cases, antibiotics are given to viral infections like bronchitis or sinusitis when they last longer than 2 weeks. There are studies that show its mainly a placebo effect.
imLissy imLissy
how is a sinus infection different from bronchitis in terms of treating it? aren't they both usually caused by viruses?
RoaringSilence RoaringSilence
I wish I didn't know all this from taking them so often too -_-
inlove23 inlove23
Yay! 5/5! Microbiology is paying off! lol
TiVo TiVo
Yay, 100%! Of all the times I've been on these things, not one doctor has warned me about how it impacts birth control effectiveness. Now that's something a girl oughtta' know! I'm glad mommy dearest filled me in years ago.
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