How to use antibiotics with 5T according to the Unisma RSI pharmacist

Malang, NU Online East Java
Antibiotics are a type of drug that is only used to treat bacterial infections. Under certain conditions, bacterial infections can also be prevented with different types of antibiotics. Antibiotics cannot be used to treat infections caused by viruses, such as coughs, colds, flu.

Using antibiotics with 5T such as not buying your own antibiotics without a prescription, not using antibiotics for infections other than bacterial, not keeping antibiotics for home stock, not giving leftover antibiotics to other people, asking your pharmacist about antibiotics.

Viral infections not requiring antibiotics, i.e. cough, colds without congestion, flu, chicken pox, mumps, measles, minor wounds, dengue fever, watery diarrhea without blood, hepatitis.

What must be considered when using antibiotics is that antibiotics are only for bacterial infections, if you have an infection caused by a virus, do not ask your doctor to prescribe antibiotics, antibiotics are only prescribed by a doctor and used as directed by your doctor and pharmacist , ask your doctor, what is your diagnosis and if there are bacterial infections, do not buy antibiotics without a prescription or use old prescriptions and do not give to others leftover or self-prescribed antibiotics.

Resistant bacteria are bacteria that cause infections that used to be killed with certain antibiotics, so they cannot be killed with these antibiotics at the prescribed dosage.

Bacteria become resistant because triggered by misuse of antibiotics, frequent use of antibiotics, eating food containing antibiotic residues, contracting patients with resistant bacterial infections.