Top 5 Antibiotics Most Frequently Used by People

Besides hard to use, antibiotics are also difficult to remember. Some patients can not even distinguish which drugs including antibiotics, which are not. But at least there are 5 most popular antibiotics that often used by people.

So many types of antibiotics that is not only confuse patients, doctors sometimes also confused. It is not possible because they do not know exactly what antibiotics to use , they simply select the most powerful.

Though according chairman of the Indonesian Pharmacist Association (IAI) Dany Pratomo Drs M, MM, Apt, the selection of antibiotics should not be arbitrary. Ideally it should be a definitive fit of germs that cause infection and had to start from the simplest type.

The selection of irrational antibiotic sometimes not a doctor desire, but the pressure of patients who feel they have the money and want to given the most effective remedy. Finally doctors choose medications not on basic standards, but only to please his patients.

In order to patient do not use the wrong medication because they do not know the types of antibiotics, you should identify the 5 types of the antibiotic most commonly used by people :

1. Amoxicillin

Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic group, more specifically, including a group of aminopenicillin such as other popular antibiotics ie ampicillin. Its use is very broad, ranging from to treat skin infections, dental, ear, respiratory tract and urinary tract.

2. Cefadroxil

Cefadroxil is a first generation antibiotic Cephalosphorin group, which works almost the same way with Amoxicillin and other antibiotics in the penicillin group. Its use is similarly broad, ranging to treat skin infections to the urinary tract.

3. Erythromicyn

Erythromicin is a class of macrolides antibiotics which often given to patients who are allergic to penicillin. Its use More extensive from penicillin and cephalosphorin, often used as the first choice for the treatment of atypical pneumonia.

4. Ciprofloxacin

Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic floroquinolon group, one of the most advanced types of antibiotics today. Its use to treat urinary tract infections, respiratory tract infections (sinusitis, pneumonia, bronchitis) as well as skin infections.

5. Tetracycline

Among sex workers, tetracycline is quite popular because this antibiotics most often become the primary choice for treating genital infections such as gonorrhea or chlamydia and matter urine. The use of these types of antibiotics began to be restricted, because it triggers resistance problem that makes gonorrhea bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.