Sentences with phrase «as the antibiotics kill»

If your dog has recently taken antibiotics, colitis and proctitis often follow as the antibiotics kill off the beneficial bacteria in the intestines, resulting in inflammation.

Not exact matches

As antibiotic use becomes more widespread and important bacteria are killed off, the environment becomes perfect for the development of thrush.

Antibiotics given to a baby or a breastfeeding mom can cause this, as they kill off the «good» bacteria that keep Candida from growing.

A study by the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C. found that outside sources, such as antibiotics, can kill both bad and good bacteria and lead to abdominal distress.

As a result, Soviet pharmaceutical companies churned out billions of units of questionable drugs that were only partially effective at normal dosages, weakening bacteria but not killing them outright — an environment perfect for spurring antibiotic resistance.

EYES Natural antibiotics in tears kill most organisms, but the eyes are home to a few hardy forms — mostly harmless strains of Staphylococcus, such as S. epidermis, and Streptococcus — that keep more virulent strains, such as pinkeye - causing Moraxella or Chlamydia trachomatis, at bay.

Research focused on the utilisation of viruses that infect and kill bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, in preventing infectious diseases has gained new traction after bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global problem.

When Weeks killed the bacteria by feeding the mites on bean leaves floating in an antibiotic solution, the mites started producing males as well.

Then the next generation of antibiotics is called on; eventually the bugs become resistant to that as well and the bacteria continue evolving until eventually no antibiotic can kill them.

As bacterial diseases develop resistance to antibiotics, medical resarchers rediscover an older strategy: setting one microbe to kill another.

«When teixobactin was discovered it was groundbreaking in itself as a new antibiotic which kills bacteria without detectable resistance including superbugs such as MRSA, but natural teixobactin was not created for human use.

«Our study found that the majority of prescriptions are for antibiotics that kill a wider range of bacteria, and that they are most likely to be given when they're not needed, such as in cases of viral infections.»

Because the molecule only lights up when eaten by healthy, hungry TB bacteria, it won't flag microbes that have been crippled or killed by antibiotics as typical tests do.

When U.S. physicians prescribe antibiotics, more than 60 percent of the time they choose some of the strongest types of antibiotics, referred to as «broad spectrum,» which are capable of killing multiple kinds of bacteria, University of Utah researchers show in a new study.

At the same time, because all bacterial RNAP possesses the same pocket that fidaxomicin uses as its binding site, drug developers might also be able to use the team's structural data to develop antibiotics that kill bugs that do not rely upon RbpA at all.

Lucia and John both agree that bacteria can not build up a resistance to silver nanoparticles as they can to antibiotics, because of the way the it attacks — destroying the physical structure of the cells, which kills them.

«As bacteria's natural enemies, their potential as sources for ways to kill bacteria should have been thoroughly explored long ago, but it is only now, with the emerging worldwide crisis in antibiotic resistance, that phages are finally getting attention in their own right,» Ing - Nang Wang, another co-author on the report, remarkAs bacteria's natural enemies, their potential as sources for ways to kill bacteria should have been thoroughly explored long ago, but it is only now, with the emerging worldwide crisis in antibiotic resistance, that phages are finally getting attention in their own right,» Ing - Nang Wang, another co-author on the report, remarkas sources for ways to kill bacteria should have been thoroughly explored long ago, but it is only now, with the emerging worldwide crisis in antibiotic resistance, that phages are finally getting attention in their own right,» Ing - Nang Wang, another co-author on the report, remarks.

This approach, as opposed to killing bacteria outright, could help curtail the growing problem of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.

«By simply watching cells grow, we were able to characterize several differences between bacteria that are killed quickly and those that respond slowly to antibiotics,» said Aldridge, who serves as faculty in the Immunology and Molecular Microbiology programs at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Sequencing the genome allowed researchers to identify the gene for lysin, an enzyme that the virus uses to kill bacterial cells, that has potential use as an antibiotic or disinfecting agent.

Phil Ross: There was a novel way back, written by Sinclair Lewis, I think Arrowsmith, where — this is in the 1920s before antibiotics were invented — where his scientist hero tries to use phages to... as a way of killing up bacteria to save people's lives, and that was an actual research project, which has come back now that bacteria are in many cases immune to antibiotics.

As an antibiotic attacks its target, it can also kill harmless flora, the term for the billions of bacteria that live in healthy intestines.

Antibiotics, such as penicillin, puromycin, and ampicillin, are molecules that specifically target and kill cells.

Antibiotics are generally defined as agents that kill bacteria, or inhibit their growth.

Antibiotics can be categorized based on whether they directly kill bacteria (bactericidal) or slow growth / prevent cell division (bacteriostatic); however, the distinction between the two categories may be a bit of a gray area as some bacteriostatic reagents can kill bacteria when used at high concentrations (and vice versa).

Through a series of tests on an NDM - 1 Escherichia coli (E. coli)(denoted as NDM - HK), clinically collected by Dr. Ho Pak Leung, director of the HKU Carol Yu Centre for Infection, the team revealed that CBS can «tame» the superbug reducing it to almost sensitive strain which can be easily killed by commonly used Carbapenem antibiotics.

As is standard practice with this infection, the patient began taking a combination of antibiotics to kill the bacteria.

Also presented are possible alternative approaches to tackling infections, such as phages (viruses that kill bacteria) sourcing new antibiotic leads from oceans, soils and host - associated microbiomes in humans, komodo dragons and leafcutter ants.

Just as it sounds, the function of antibiotics is to kill bacteria, both good and bad.

While antibiotics are excellent at killing bacteria (as long as you match the right drug to the right germ), they're useless at killing viruses.

It was also equally as effective in its germ - killing abilities as common prescription antibiotics.

In a study from Arizona State University, bentonite clay was found to be highly effective at killing MRSA as well as Salmonella, E.Coli and others.What is promising as research continues in this area is that depending on the method in which the clay kills the infection, it may not be possible for the MRSA or other bacteria to develop a resistance to it as it does with antibiotics.

While more research needs to be conducted on this, oral contraceptives are suspected to act as a constant antibiotic internally, slowly altering and killing off healthy gut bacteria.

The reason is that ingestion of colloidal silver does damage the delicate gut microbiome by killing beneficial bacteria though not as extensively as drug based antibiotics.

While antibiotics effectively kill both pathogenic and beneficial bacterial strains with the exception of antibiotic - resistant species of streptococcus and other strains, they do not affect the many forms of yeast such as Candida albicans naturally found in the body in a nondominant role.

Although they demolish the harmful bacteria, antibiotics often kill off some good bacteria as well.

When you take an antibiotic it kills all the friendly flora (bacteria) as well as all the pathogenic (bad) bacteria!

There is also evidence that children who are given antibiotics earlier in life (antibiotics kill off gut bacteria and upset the ratio of good to bad bacteria) are more likely to have immune problems such as food allergies and asthma (source).

As for simple antibiotics, they too kill bacteria in the beginning.

The doctor has been trained in a mind - set derived from the war against bacterial infections in which success (such as it was) was achieved by a process of diagnosing diseases by their signs and symptoms in order to identify the infecting organism so the proper antibiotic may be employed to kill it.

Also, the garlic in the oil helps to kill the germs causing the sickness because works great as an antibiotic.

This increases immunity in the body, especially after the use of antibiotics, which kills both the bad as well as the good bacteria.

http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/gut-flora-obesity/ Also, antibiotics, advil and tylenol (as discussed by Dr. McDougal) will kill your good gut bacteria so if you have had any in the past it is important to replenish your bacteria supply.

Antibiotics kill the good bugs as well as the bad ones in our gut.

Antibiotic Resistance a Growing Problem - Increasingly, antibiotics are becoming less effective as germ fighters as the pathogens develop an immunity to their killing power.

Silver acts as an antibiotic by effectively killing harmful pathogens.

It is prescribed with care and on a regulated basis because while antibiotics can kill bad bacteria such as viruses, that have made their way into our bodies, they can also kill the ones we need to live.

Antibiotics kill good as well as bad bacteria.

The same logic as above applies to taking antibiotics, although they don't have the same strength as Accutane, but essentially, they are doing the same exact process of killing off some sort of inflammation in one part of the body, but damaging something else.

However, when we have high stress or poor nutrition, or we are exposed to an excess of antibiotics that kill good bacteria as well as bad, our gut microbiome gets out of balance.