What are the best methods for fighting viral infections? What about bacterial infections?
The best method for fighting viral and bacterial infections is prevention against their occurrence. Avoid crowds, young children, and known infected individuals. Wash your hands frequently. Get flu shots and Pneumovax as recommended. Ask your health care provider to consider immunization against Hemophilus influenzae, hepatitis B, and hepatitis A. The best method for treating a known bacterial infection is to give an appropriate antibiotic at the earliest possible time. No one antibiotic is necessarily better or stronger than another; rather, particular bacteria may be more sensitive and better killed by one or more antibiotics than by others.
The best method for fighting viral and bacterial infections is prevention. Avoid crowds, young children and known infected individuals. Wash your hands frequently. Get flu shots and Pneumovax as recommended. Ask your health care provider to consider immunization against Hemophilus influenzae, hepatitis B and hepatitis A. The best method for treating a known bacterial infection is to give an appropriate antibiotic at the earliest possible time. No one antibiotic is necessarily better or stronger than another; rather, particular bacteria may be more sensitive and better killed by one or more antibiotics than by others.
