London? Antibiotics

Do you like Monday? I don’t like! Monday is the beginning of the week, everything have to start from beginning again. I mean beginning of the works of the week. =P

Today, I finally got my answer for the question about trip to London. We had planned that we will go London during our flight transit in London, 25th June 2008 till 29 June 2008, around 4 days 4 nights. This change will cost us AT LEAST RM 150 for ticket re-issue (as penalty). With money, people need to think, if without money, they need not to think, for sure will agree on the spot. So I give additional 1 day for my travel-mates to think about this matter. How about me? Yea, I think I’m going! (80%), and another 20% from unknown factors.

Today my topic for Clinical Pharmacology is about Antimicrobial drugs. Antimicrobial drugs play an super important roles in our daily lives, until people miss-use them. Not to say, these drugs bring a lot side effects and complication to people, sometimes more side effects than therapeutic effects. Some super limited use of drug for example, vancomycin which is impossible to be given or only drug of LAST choice!, due to its super narrow therapeutic range.

People, do not always depend on antimicrobial drug (antibiotics). Some people when they have sore-throat, they start to use antibiotics; in fact most of the ‘sore-throat’ is viral origin where antibiotics have no effects at all.

When doctors prescribe antibiotics for you, remember to finish the full doses, or else resistant might develop. And another very important warning, when you’re sick, go seeks for DOCTOR(s)! Not PHARMACIST(s)! (Sorry pharmacists) Why? Doctors (not all doctors) will normally give you narrow spectrum of antibiotics (if you need antibiotic therapy) while Pharmacists (not all pharmacists) normally give you wide spectrum of antibiotics where it can against almost all types of microbial lives. What are the differences between narrow spectrum and wide spectrum? Narrow spectrum will specifically attack certain type of microbial lives, and harmless to others which are healthy for human, while wide spectrum kill more microbial lives including the healthy one (normoflora) in human which ended up with dysbiosis.

So the conclusion is, prevention is better than cure. Stay healthy and be healthy!