Bacterial infection symptoms,causes,treatment and prevention

Bacterial infection includes all types of illness caused by bacteria. Bacteria is a microorganism, which can only be seen with a microscope. Bacteria normally live on the skin, in the intestines, and on the genitalia.

Bacteria divide to good bacteria which are helpful and necessary for good health, and bad bacteria which cause bacterial infections and disease are called pathogenic bacteria

Bacterial diseases:

When pathogenic bacteria get into the body to grow in tissues and may produce toxins in the infected tissue and may it swim with its toxins to other tissues through blood circulation

Pathogenic bacteria can enter the body by many ways such as eating, sex interaction, Inhaling, Kissing, blood (needles) and body fluids (mouth, eyes or nose)

Symptoms:

Bacterial infections may cause

-Diarrhea

-High fever

-Nausea and vomiting

-Fever

-Weakness

-Irritability

-Difficulty breathing

-Abdominal pain

-Lesions and rashes

-Most bacterial infections cause flue like symptoms

 There are complications of severe chronic bacterial diseases as:

Coma

Kidney failure

Severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance

Shock

Toxic shock syndrome

Treatment of the bacterial infection:

Antibiotics are the main weapon to fight the bacteria by killing it or stopping its grown given orally, intravenously, or by intramuscular injection, according to the type and severity of the bacterial infection

There are many types of antibiotic the main types are:

Aminoglycosides

Cephalosporin

Penicillin

Quinolones

Tetracycline

Macrolides

 Also the bacterial infection treatment needs rest, good nutrition, increased fluids and in some severe cases hospitalization

In some severe cases happen what called antibiotic resistance which make doctors more careful in treatment of these complicated cases

Bacterial infection prevention

 -Prevent touch all contaminated tools of the infected person

-No kissing

 -wash hands before eating.

-Wash hands after coming to home.

-Besides good nutrition including some health foods that strength the immune system as:

Ginger, orange oil, bee honey and all fresh vegetables and fruits.

Microbiology

Microbiology

Microbiology is the Scientific study of microorganisms,Microbiology is a broad term which includes virology, mycology, parasitology, bacteriology, immunology and other branches. Microbiology is concerned with the structure, function, and classification of these organisms and with ways of controlling and using their activities.  Amicrobiologist is a specialist in microbiology and these related topics.

 Microbiology is in some degree related to the following sciences: lower plants and animal morphology and taxonomy (mycology, algology, protistology), plant physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, evolutionary theory, molecular biology, organic chemistry, agricultural chemistry, soil science, biogeochemistry, hydrobiology, and chemical and microbiological technology.

microorganisms play a most important role in soil fertility, in the productivity of bodies of water, and in the formation and destruction of mineral deposits. The capacity of microorganisms to mineralize the organic remains of animals and plants is especially important. The ever-increasing practical use of microorganisms has led to the development of the microbiological industry and to the substantial broadening of microbiological research in various branches of industry and agriculture. From the middle of the 19th century to the 1940’s, industrial microbiology principally studied various processes of fermentation, and microorganisms were used chiefly in the food-processing industry.

The following metabolic products are obtained on a large scale by microbiological methods: amino acids (lysine, glutamic acid, tryptophan), enzymes, vitamins, and nutritive yeasts on inedible raw material (caustic sulfite, hydrolysates of wood, peat, and vegetable by-products, petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons, phenol- or starch-containing sewage). Polysaccharides are being produced by microbiological methods and lipids are being biosynthesized industrially.