Question

- What is one advantage and one disadvantage to antibiotic use?
- What are two beneficial uses of bacteria?
- What actions a person may take to avoid bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant?

Answer 1

-Advantage; aids the immune systems antibodies to remove infection
-Disadvantage; destroys natural bacterial flora that can lead to a secondary sequelae (infection after first infection) and lowering in certain vitamin production by beneficial bacteria.
-Uses; Production of dairy products like yogurt through lactose fermentation & production of essential vitamins in the body and can also stop other harmful bacteria from colonizing the site
-Precautions- complete the antibiotic does for the recommended time, dont stop early, to help reduce the selection of resistant strains, if you dont need antibiotics dont use them, good hygiene, when a child allow the immune system to build up a tolerance, dont be hyper clean and allow the thymus to produce the T-cells the child will need. Be smart really
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