Title: Antibiotics, antimicrobials, antisepics, and disinfectants
Headings: Everyday Medicines 02
Everyday Medicines 02
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The action of Microbes in the Body:
Antimicrobials:
Antibiotics:
Types of Antibiotics:
Depending Upon Effect:
Depending Upon Spectrum:
Some Important Antibiotics:
Sulpha Drugs:
Antiseptics:
Uses of Antiseptics:
Disinfectants:
Uses of Disinfectants:
Difference Between Antiseptics and Disinfectants:
Antiseptics:
Disinfectants:
Important Discoveries in the Field of Medicine:
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Content: Sulphapyridine – Cure for pneumonia
Sulphadiazine – Cure for pneumonia, throat infection, meningitis,
Sulphaguanidine – Cure of bacillary dysentery
Sulphathiazole – Useful against staphylococcal infections and bubonic plague. Succinyl sulphathiazole – Useful in intestinal infections such as bacillary dysentery and cholera)
Sulphaacetamide – Used to cure urinary tract infections. Antiseptics: Drugs which are applied to the living tissues to kill the bacteria and to stop their growth in
wound thus preventing its infection are called antiseptics. Examples: Iodoform, boric acid, dilute solution of phenol, hydrogen peroxide. Dettol, tincture iodine, soframycin, furacine. Antiseptics prevent the wound from infection. It is to be noted that antiseptics do not heal wounds. 2 to 3 % solution of iodine in alcohol and water is called tincture iodine.