What is the difference between azithromycin and cephalosporin?

Let us first understand what is known as antibiotics, antibiotics are chemical substances produced by microorganisms or higher plants and animals in life that contain secondary metabolites that are resistant to pathogens and other activities that can interfere with the developmental functions of other living cells.

Nowadays several antibiotics are extracted from these microorganisms and higher plants and animals and are used to deal with different illnesses. The role of antibiotics is to sterilize and inhibit bacteria, germs that are harmful to the human body and have no way to rely on the person's immune system for elimination can be considered for antibiotics, for example, when we have a cold, minor illnesses need to rest for a few days and let the body recover on its own, in serious cases may need the help of antibiotics, to improve the current difficult symptoms. But the abuse of antibiotics has become one of the hottest topics nowadays, not only will the body's resistance decline, but also may make the resistance enhanced, if the antibiotic resistance is enhanced, there will be a terrible situation that there is no medicine to cure, so it is said not to abuse antibiotics, follow the norms of antibiotic use.

I. What are antibiotics?

So what are some of the antibiotics that appear on the market now? We still mainly go from three aspects of classification, the first is the use, the second is the type, and the third is the chemical structure, different classifications can put different antibiotics in different ranges, and understanding the classification of antibiotics, is conducive to our correct understanding, antibiotics are not abused.

(1) According to the use, it can be divided into anti-tumor antibiotics prescription antibiotics, bacterial antibiotics, antifungal antibiotics, antiviral antibiotics, and so on.

(2) By type, there are chemically synthesized, semi-synthesized, and microbially fermented synthetic antibiotics.

(3) According to the chemical structure, there is macrolide back to closterone antibiotics, aminoglycoside antibiotics, etc.

What are the specific effects of antibiotics on the human body and what are the adverse effects?

People use antibiotics because the body's immune system may not function properly, and need to use external forces to inhibit the reproduction of viral germs, so as not to deteriorate into a more serious disease, we use antibiotics can produce four mechanisms of action in the body, these four mechanisms of action are with the cell membrane, inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis, interference with protein synthesis, inhibit nucleic acid transcription and replication, through These mechanisms control the formation and development of viral pathogens and play a very important role in restoring human health.

The role of antibiotics is very broad, first of all, it is selective to act directly on the DNA and RNA proteins in the bacterium cells, which is very effective if it is applied to killing bacteria. Then it also has selective antibiotics, which mainly means that the antibiotics used for different pathogenic bacteria are different, and these pathogenic bacteria can be said to be antibiotics if they are more sensitive to a certain type of antibiotics, which simply means that it is called a narrow-spectrum antibacterial agent if it works on a single type of bacteria, and it is called a broad-spectrum antibacterial agent if it works on a variety of bacteria and pathogens.

Antibiotics also have an effective concentration of action, different kinds of antibiotics have different concentrations, but they have a common feature, that is, at very low concentrations can produce resistance and response to pathogenic bacteria, this is one of the main differences between antibiotics and other chemical bactericides, and why antibiotics are so popular a reason.

The last feature of antibiotics is selective virulence, we simply understand that antibiotics are much less toxic to people, and the toxicity of antibiotics used against microorganisms is very useful, so antibiotics are still the main tool used by humans for antibacterial sterilization so far.

Second, what is the difference between azithromycin and cephalosporins?

After understanding the antibiotics, then let's talk about cephalosporins. Cephalosporins are also an antibacterial drug, an antibiotic obtained from Clostridium perfringens, after we take cephalosporins, doctors will tell us not to drink alcohol because it will produce fainting shock, and in serious cases, it will even lead to life-threatening, and there have been countless such cases. There are also many kinds of cephalosporins, such as ceftriaxone sodium, cefoperazone, cefuroxime, cefixime, and so on, which are often sold in the market.

What is the difference between azithromycin and cephalosporins among antibiotics? Below we will compare several cephalosporins and azithromycin to see how it works in different diseases, whether it has the same effect, or which one is more effective.

① From the comparison of the efficacy of azithromycin and cefuroxime in the treatment of chronic sinusitis, azithromycin accelerates the weakening of neutrophils, reduces nasal secretions, and improves the symptoms of sinusitis patients, but because of the prolonged use of azithromycin, most bacteria have developed resistance to azithromycin, and this cephalosporin can be used if there is no allergic reaction to cefuroxime. Clinical experiments have shown that the therapeutic effect of cefuroxime is clinically better than that of azithromycin, which should be promoted up in clinical practice.

The specific pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumonia is still unclear, and most scholars and experts believe that it is the stimulation of β-cells by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which produces a large number of immune antibodies and causes damage to various organs in our body, so the long-term use of cefuroxime is not very effective and patients can easily develop drug dependence, while If azithromycin is used, the clinical treatment effect is very good because it belongs to macrolide drug with a long half-life and good permeability.

The effect of Azithromycin and Ceftriaxone in the treatment of gonorrhea both have a good therapeutic effect on gonorrhea. Ceftriaxone is a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug commonly used in clinical practice, which can make the cell wall synthesis of germs unsuccessful after patients have taken it so that the germs can fail to divide and can also make the germs die, which to a certain extent has a bactericidal effect. Azithromycin also has the same effect, it is a macrolide antibiotic, that can inhibit the activity of gonorrhea-causing bacteria, and play a bactericidal effect, if the two are used in combination, can play a more therapeutic effect.

From the above three cases, we can see that different symptoms, the drugs used are different, there are some diseases in this type of drug efficacy is better, another symptom is the use of other drugs to treat the effect is better, so from this point of view, azithromycin and cephalosporin their different points are to treat different symptoms of the advantages more obvious, and they treat gonorrhea are common bactericidal effect.

Third, what are the behaviors of incorrect use of antibiotics?

This point is mainly for rural residents, urban residents in this aspect are more standardized, and there are strict procedures, naturally, there is also incorrect use of antibiotics, but the number of lesser degree.

Rural residents will be the first to think of using antibiotics when they have a cold, mainly because they have formed this idea and habit, and it is difficult to change it at once. The doctor may well not agree to the patient using antibiotics at first, but the doctor has to prescribe it because the patient asks for it. If the doctor and the patient have a different understanding of antibiotics, and the doctor chooses to prescribe antibiotics to the patient for profit, all these situations may lead to antibiotic abuse.

What is the proper way to use antibiotics? The first thing is to read the precautions of antibiotics, look at the side effects caused by the use and not applicable to the population which some, for example, the elderly are older, not in very good health, kidney function and other organ function has been reduced, then the use of antibiotics, it is easy to have adverse drug reactions, try to use a small number of drugs.

The second is not too frequent use of antibiotics, such as a little cold to ask the doctor to prescribe antibiotics, long-term use of antibiotics will produce resistance to the body, which affects the subsequent treatment of sickness, and excessive use of antibiotics is also likely to lead to the dysbiosis of our body flora, the body's resistance will naturally decline. The antibiotics are good but don't use them greedily.

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