Antibiotics And Other Medicines

Question 1

What do antibiotics do?

Answer 1

They kill bacteria and they stop diseases spreading around the body.

They don’t stop viruses as they use the human cells, so we can’t create antibiotics to stop viruses as it would be pointless

Question 2

What is penicillin?

Answer 2

It is an antibiotic found by Alexander Fleming that if a fungi that killed bacteria in a Petri dish.

Question 3

What is preclinical testing?

Answer 3

1) when the drugs are used on human cells and tissues in lab.
2) next on live animals to test if it works and the side effects

Question 4

What is clinical testing?

Answer 4

1) tested on human volunteers
2) check for side effects
3) if it’s good it can be tested on people with the illness - find optimum dose
4) two groups - with drug - no drug test for actual effect (placebo)
5) they are blind to make sure they don’t know they are receiving the placebo pill

Question 5

What happens after all trials ?

Answer 5

It’s given to the medical agency to be approved or not.