• Question: what is the biggest difference between anti-biotics and injections?

    Asked by Triya to Daniela ?, ☣ Danna, Jonny, Juan, Lindsay on 10 Jun 2016.
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      Danna Gifford answered on 10 Jun 2016:

      That depends what you mean by injections. Antibiotics can be prescribed in many forms—tablets, liquids to drink, creams, and by injection. But antibiotic injections are only usually given to people who are very ill and are in hospital because of a bad infection.

      Many medicines can be given by injection. A common injection people receive is a vaccination, like the flu jab (not a bacterium) or the menigitis vaccine (against a kind of deadly bacteria called “meningococcus”). These injections help us stay well by giving the body a chance to see a weak or dead form of the infection, so that if the real infection does get inside us, our body already knows how to fight it off.

      So antibiotics help us when we’re already ill with a bacterial infection, and vaccine injections help stop us getting ill in the first place, but only work against certain kinds of infections.

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      Juan Ortiz answered on 10 Jun 2016:

      ANTIBIOTICS can cure us when we are sick. But how? We get sick when our body is invaded by tiny malicious creatures called BACTERIA. Antibiotics are simply a MAGIC POISON that can kill these evil bacteria but it is harmless for us. So when we have a disease caused by bacteria (there can be other causes too!!) we can get well again. Antibiotics can be eaten in pills or tables or also injected with a needle and this is what we call injection (ouch!!!). But it doesn’t matter how you have them, they are just a magic poison.

      INJECTIONS are just a way to have a medicine. You can inject many types of medicine. We usually get injections when we are VACCINATED. But what is a VACCINE?
      A vaccine PREVENTS US FROM BEING SICK, by making our body ready for an attack by harmful microbes. So we receive a vaccine when we are healthy so we can stay healthy. But some vaccines can be eaten too.

      In conclusion, an ANTIBIOTIC IS A MEDICINE and an INJECTION IS A WAY TO HAVE A MEDICINE.

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      Jonathan Hunter answered on 10 Jun 2016:

      I guess that the biggest difference between antibiotics and injections is that antibiotics kill bacteria which can make you ill and injections hurt.

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      Daniela Lobo answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      I think the other answered your question already 🙂

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      Lindsay Robinson answered on 18 Jun 2016:

      Everyone else seems to have answered this already. I don’t have anything to add.

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