B6.2 - Antibiotics And Painkillers (Finished)

Question 1

What do painkillers and other medicines do?

Answer 1

Treat the symptoms of the disease but do not kill the pathogen causing it.

Question 2

Antibiotics only work on ___ diseases

Answer 2

Bacterial

Question 3

Why can’t antibiotics destroy viruses?

Answer 3

Because viruses reproduce inside the cells so it’s difficult to kill the virus without damaging body cells

Question 4

What are painkillers?

Answer 4

Painkillers are drugs that relieve pain

Question 5

What is the problem of painkillers?

Answer 5

Painkillers don’t actually tackle the cause of the disease or kill pathogens, just reduce symptoms

Question 6

What are antibiotics?

Answer 6

Antibiotics are drugs that kill (or prevent growth of) the BACTERIA causing the problem without killing your own body cells

Question 7

Why can antibiotics not destroy viruses?

Answer 7

Voruses reproduce using your body cells so it is very difficult to develop drugs that just kill the virus but not the body cells

Question 8

How is the rate of development of resistant strains of bacteria reduced?

Answer 8

Doctors must not over-prescribe antibiotics to reduce the rate of resistant strains if bacteria from developing

Question 9

Why is bacteria mutating a problem for antibiotics?

Answer 9

Bacteria can mutate which can sometimes cause them to become resistant to an antibiotic. If you have an infection some bacteria may be resistant to it, the non-resistant are killed off but resistant stay reproduce so the population of resistant ones increases