Question

Alina has cold and viral flu for the past 5 days. Her mother gave her antibiotics but she is not recovering. What can be a likely reason for the same

Answer 1

Answer:

Because colds and the flu are caused by viruses, antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections can't cure them.

Explanation:

Viruses are different to bacteria; they have a different structure and a different way of surviving. Viruses don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics; instead, they are surrounded by a protective protein coat.

Unlike bacteria, which attack your body’s cells from the outside, viruses move into, live in and make copies of themselves in your body’s cells. Viruses can't reproduce on their own, as bacteria do, instead, they attach themselves to healthy cells and reprogram those cells to make new viruses. It is because of all of these differences that antibiotics don’t work on viruses.