Antibiotics And Painkillers

Question 1

What is the purpose of painkillers

Answer 1

To relive pain

Don’t kill pathogens just reduce symptoms

Question 2

What is the purpose of anti biotics

Answer 2

They kill the bacteria causing the problem without killing ur own body cells

Question 3

How can some antibodies be resistant to antibiotics

Answer 3

They can mutate which cause them to be resistant

Question 4

How can you avoid resistant strains

Answer 4

Doctors will not over-prescribe

Question 5

Where do drugs come from

Answer 5

Plants or micro organisms

Question 6

1st stage of drug testing

Answer 6

Tested on human cells and tissues in the LAB

Question 7

2nd stage of testing drugs

Answer 7

Testing on live animals- to test efficacy. And dosage and toxicity
Has to be tested in 2 different live animals

Question 8

Stage 3 of drug testing

Answer 8

Tested on human volunteers in a clinical trial

Question 9

Describe how a drug is tested on human volunteers

Answer 9

Patients are randomly put into 2 groups one is given the real drug and one is given the placebo
So the doctor can see the actual difference the drug makes
Blind so the patient or the doctor does NOT KNOW—-so the result are not SUBCONSCIOUSLY INFLUENCED