.what are the differences between antibiotic and vaccine
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Vaccines are right to be used for protection against potential future infection. Vaccines are designed to induce a protective immune response in your body. The specific, protective immune cells have a memory component so that you can be adequately protected for any future infection by that particular virus. These memory cells allow for a quick response to that future infection so that when exposed to that virus, you are quickly protected and can avoid being sick. Vaccines can be for many different diseases and can be used for many different reasons. Some vaccines are given immediately at birth, like MMR, and others throughout a child’s life as certain things are more common to affect them, like meningococcal. Other vaccines commonly used are when traveling to another country, like yellow fever, because different countries have different possibilities for infection than the United States, so people need a vaccine if going to certain places in the world.
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modern times, the treatment and prevention of various life-threatening bacterial, viral and other infections have become possible with the advent of vaccines and antibiotics. Both vaccines and antibiotics are used to treat infections or kill germs, but they are different as they work in different ways and are used for different purposes. Antibiotics are used to treat diseases that have already occurred and vaccines are used to prevent diseases that may happen. Let us see how antibiotics differ from vaccines.
Antibiotics are small molecules or compounds that are used to treat or stop infections caused by microorganisms like bacteria, fungi etc. They belong to the group of antimicrobial compounds intended to kill harmful microorganism. They kill bacteria or stop them from growing or reproducing. The meaning of word antibiotic is ?against life?, so any drug that is prepared to kill bacteria in the body is technically an antibiotic.
Antibiotics kill only bacteria, they don?t work against viruses. So, they are used for bacterial infections not for the viral infections. Some common bacterial infections that can be treated with antibiotics .
Vaccine is a biological preparation which is used to produce or improve immunity to a specific disease. They are generally given by injection (needle) however some are given orally and nasally (sprayed into the nose). The act of giving a vaccine to produce immunity to a specific disease is known as vaccination.
It is an inactive form of a germ (bacteria or virus). It is generally prepared from small amounts of weakened or dead micro organisms which can cause diseases like viruses and bacteria. In some cases, the inactivated toxins produced by germs or their body parts like surface proteins are used to prepare a vaccine. Vaccines protect us from various diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, polio, chicken pox, small pox, flu, common cold, stomach flu etc.
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