Acne is a condition involving the formation of pimples on the skin. While antibiotics can be an effective treatment, many other options exist for treating acne, including prescription and herbal medicines, topical and oral treatments and lifestyle...
Antibiotics save lives every day. They fight off bacteria that can cause nasty infections, painful symptoms and even death. However, antibiotics are not without side effects, often causing digestive upset and even secondary infections such A yeast...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, is a dangerous bacterial pathogen. This strain of bacteria, which is resistant to the antibiotic methicillin, may also be resistant to other antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance most...
Bad breath is not only unpleasant to have, but it may make others avoid you. Also called halitosis, bad breath can occur due to a variety of factors, including as the result of illness that also involves other uncomfortable and adverse symptoms....
The National Institutes of Health describe irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, as group of symptoms such as abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhea and/or constipation caused by abnormal bowel function. Doctors call IBS a syndrome rather...
Intestinal bacteria can be affected by a variety of factors including diet, environment and health status. After a course of antibiotic use, the body has lower levels of all types of bacteria, including the beneficial bacteria produced in the...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also called MRSA, is an infection caused by a strain of staph bacteria that has become resistant to certain antibiotics usually prescribed to treat that infection. Patients most often acquire MRSA...
Salmonella is a gram negative facultative intracellular anaerobic bacteria that causes foodborne illnesses. Salmonella causes a wide spectrum of disease including gastroenteritis, enteric fever and bacteremia. Antibiotics such as cefotaxime,...
Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive bacteria that causes variety of infections including skin infections, pneumonia, sepsis and endocarditis. While 25 to 30 percent of healthy adults have staphylococci bacteria localized on the skin and...
Bacterial vaginosis results from an overpopulation of anaerobic bacteria that displaces the normal resident bacteria of the vagina, Lactobacillus acidophilus. Antibiotic treatments for bacterial vaginosis include metronidazole and clindomycin,...
Cystic acne represents the most stubborn, difficult to treat acne. These bumps are large and deep, having a diameter of 5mm or more, and are filled with pus. In addition to their unsightly appearance, they can be painful and cause scarring....
Rosacea is a skin condition that causes the skin of the face and forehead to become red and develop pimples. It may also affect the eyes. According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, in 2010 about 14...
Urinary tract infections are usually caused by bacteria in the bladder, one of the kidneys or one of the tubes that connect them to each other or the outside of the body. The body's natural processes usually eliminate bacteria before they can...
The term, cellulitis refers to a diffuse and especially subcutaneous inflammation of the dermis, the sensitive vascular inner mesodermic layer of the skin. The species of staphylococcus and streptococcus bacteria are the most common causative...
Tuberculosis, or TB, an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains one of the most prevalent and deadliest diseases in the world. According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the world's population has TB. In...
One theory concerning the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is that the disease may be triggered by an infection, possibly mycoplasma, and that antibiotics can treat this disease. Minocycline, a member of the tetracycline class of antibiotics, in...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a progressive disease of the lungs usually caused by smoking. This disease of the lungs causes shortness of breath, productive cough, wheezing and chest tightness. Diseases such as a cold or flu can easily...
About 2,500 cases of meningococcal infections are reported each year in the U.S; this infection carries a 10 percent fatality rate. The coffee bean-shaped bacteria, called Neisseria meningitidis (meningococci), which is responsible for the...
Staphylococci, also known as staph, are widespread in nature, their normal habitats being the human skin and mucous membranes. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common type of staph that can cause both superficial and deep pus-forming infections....
The skin protects us from the outside world and forms an important barrier to infection. Wounds cause an opening in the skin that bacteria can use to penetrate into the deeper tissues of the body. Skin wounds can be due to trauma or from surgical...
According to the Mayo Clinic, the parts of the human urinary system are the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra. The term urinary tract infection refers to an infection of any part of this system. Most commonly, however, the infection involves...
Cystitis is a bacterial infection of the lower urinary tract and mainly affects women although it can occur in men. According to Bupa, one in three women will have at least one episode of cystitis before she is 24 years old. Cystitis is a...
Acne is the most common skin condition in the United States, with about 40 to 50 million people affected by it, primarily teenagers and young adults, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Although acne is not curable, symptoms of mild...
Urinary tract infections are the most common type of infection, according to the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Eight million doctors’ visits are related to UTIs. Women get them more frequently than men, but...
The diabetic foot ulcer causes more hospitalizations of people with diabetes than any other diabetic complication. According to the text, "A Practical Approach to Infectious Disease, 4th ed.", diabetics are 17 times more likely to develop gangrene...
A common form of urinary tract infection, bladder infections sometimes develop in men and children, but they primarily affect women. This potentially serious health condition generally develops as a result of bacteria entering the urinary tract....
Children diagnosed with severe asthma may not obtain the full level of therapeutic relief from traditional asthma medications because of a little-known infection. At the time of publication, researchers presented evidence that an antibiotic can...
Antibiotics are necessary to help treat bacterial infections. Antibiotics work by killing the bad bacteria in the gastrointestinal flora, thereby eliminating disease. However, antibiotics are known to eliminate some of the intestine's good...
The flu is a viral illness that causes fever, gastrointestinal distress, muscle aches and pains that can last for several days. When the symptoms of the flu are severe, you have no desire to get out of bed, let alone go out and train. As you begin...
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