Antibiotics: These are the chemicals (medicine, drugs) that block biochemical pathways important for bacteria. They are used for diseases caused by bacteria.
Inflammation: When an active immune system releases many cells to the affected tissue to heat-off the disease-causing microbes it is called inflammation. Local effects caused on body due to inflammation are—swelling, pain, fever and redness.
Principles of treatment
• To reduce the effects of the diseases.
• To kill the cause of the disease i.e., to kill the microbes like bacteria fungi, protozoa.
Principles of Prevention
• General method
• Specific method
General ways of preventing infections relate to preventing exposure.
Prevention of exposure can be done by following ways:
• For air borne infections—valid -visiting public place, cover your nose and mouth while coughing.
• For water borne infections- Drink, clean and boiled drinking water.
• For vector borne infections Keep the surroundings clean, do not keep any puddle of water open in the surrounding as it allows the breeding of mosquitoes.
• Self-immune system that can (fight off and kill microbes when it enters our body.
• Availability of proper and sufficient -food for everyone.
Vaccination & Immunization
• Vaccination: The use of vaccines to stimulate your immune system to protect you against infection or disease
• Immunization: The process of making you immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically via vaccination