Question

What are antibiotics? What precautions must be taken while
antibiotics?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The medicines which kill or stop the growth of microorganisms in our body are called antibiotics. ... Antibiotics are made from bacteria and fungi. The penicillin is the first antibiotics which is discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1929. These days a number of antibiotics are used to cure various human and animal diseases.

Explanation:

Precautions to be taken while using antibiotics are:

Antibiotics should be taken in the right amount and at the right time. A wrong dose of antibiotics makes the drug ineffective. Also, excessive consumption of drugs may kill the useful bacteria present in our body.

Answer 2

Answer:

Antibiotics are substances taken as medicines which kill other microbes in the body for the better

Explanation:

Antibiotics are made up of other microorganisms which kill other bacteria and harmful microbes. The name itself means 'against life'. These restrict the growth of germs.

The precautions that must be taken while on antibiotics are:

1. The courses prescribed by the doctor must be completed on time

2. They must not be overdosed as when it is taken again, it will not work like expected to work, that is, lose efficiency on the germs

3. If taken too much(overdosed) the antibiotic might kill beneficial microbes in the body.

Antibiotics are also used to kill germs which cause parasitic diseases, and a lot others.

Hope this helped