How does a viral infection turn into a bacterial infection?
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A viral infection can decrease your bodies resistance to the point where some bacterias can multiply and become a secondary infection(s). Doctors are able to deal with most bacterial infections. Viral infections require a person to eat and rest properly which helps your body develop antibodies which fight the original viral infection.
think about when you are sick, you get run down, you don't feel like eating and your immune system is a little low. so bacteria are opportunistic, you are already sick from a virus and the bacteria, often are already present, but not causing you a prob, multiply.
It is not uncommon to have viral infections, even those having a mild impact on the human body, give rise to opportunistic bacterial infections. Viral infections will break down normal human non-specific defenses, allowing bacteria, even normal skin flora to innoculate & propagate within the territory affected by a virus. Common examples include staphylococcal infections after viral influenza. As a matter of fact, one specific bacterium, Haemophilus Influenza was so named because clinicians consistently found it within the sputum of individuals with clinical viral pneumonia. Later on, it became evident that this bacterium, was co-infecting with the virus due to a normal decrease in the host immune defenses. This bacterium is not as significant nowadays due to early vaccination. Another example would be a self-limitedinfection of the conjunctiva, such as pink eye, usually caused by adenovirus, turn into a more emergent situation of a bacterial nature due to improved medium on which to grow.
Any infection creates inflamation, which loosens up the bariers to entry of other organisms. This also happens with inflamations from chemical exposure. Then bacteria can more easily enter and then you hav e one infection on top of another. (The viral infection does not "turn into" a bacterial infection.) The process can also go the other way, of course, with a bacterial infection first. And with a chenical inflamation either can happen.although, in all these cases bacterias are more common around us, usiually.
This brings us to the question "can anti-biotics help a viral infection?" Of course, most doctors, in their stupidity, say no, of course not. But this is not true.
If one takes some anti-biotics then many bacteria will be killed in the body and the overall load for the immune system will be reduced. Then recovery is quicker. I have proved this many times with the tacking of a double dose of antibiotics (different ones were tried in my experiments, all effecyive.) for two days and then a regular dose for one or two days and that's it. And screw the theory that you should take them for weeks. (Almost everybody parrots this opposite theory. But I had an e.n.t. doctor who was a doctor in Antwerpt during WWII.. (a major evacuation port for injured GI-s during the last phase of the war in Europe.)
I believed whole heartedly in his pulse theory, which he practiced.
Now, you don't say where your infection is. If it is in the nose, throat or sinuses then have your self checked for a deviated septum in the nose. (If you usually cannot breath through one nostril (cover one side of the nose, try breathing and then do the other.) then you probably have some bad air flow going on. Air flow is VERY important since it stimulates the little hairs insede which keep things clean. A blocked air flow will cause a collection of dirt and bacteria and generate constsnt infections and develope allergies due to constant presence of allergins. If you have this, get the operation soon as possible, and have it done while awake, with cocaine packs in the nose and intravenios vallium.
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It doesn't. Unless,of course, both were occurring at the same time. Certain infections would seem to be definitely viral in nature but, can turn out to be bacterial instead. Most bacterial infections can take 2-3 days before you experience symptoms. However, in the meantime, it may appear as a viral infection, which also has an " incubation period". It is not uncommon to have both at the same time.
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