1 Specific properties and limitations of the use of

Levomycetin has been used with unchanged success even for the treatment of such severe intestinal infections as typhoid, salmonellosis and dysentery. To combat severe bacterial lesions, he was originally synthesized and to this day successfully copes with poisonings that have an infectious etiology. However, it is absolutely useless for alcohol poisoning, intoxication with harmful, poisonous or narcotic substances, because it has a pronounced antibacterial effect.

Levomycetin in case of an infectious lesion of the gastrointestinal mucosa is much more effective than other antibiotics, including even more modern ones, but its use is absolutely unacceptable with the slightest suspicion of slight malaise or slight dilution of the stool. Diarrhea does not always have an infectious origin, and frequent use of the medicine can lead not only to a loss of its effectiveness due to habituation, but also to the destruction of beneficial gastric bacteria that help the digestive process.

Intestinal infection, which is usually recommended for taking this drug, has characteristic features in the form of an increasingweakness, not knocked down by antipyretic agents of temperature, vomiting, diarrhea for more than 3 hours, presence of feces or blood in the stool. But even with these symptoms, a clinical analysis of the secretions is needed, which will determine whether the type of bacteria affected by Levomycetin is the cause of the lesion. Any antibiotics for poisoning should only be used as directed by the doctor after appropriate tests.

2 Absolute indications for the use of

Levomycetin affects a wide range of bacteria that cause infectious diseases and food poisoning. It successfully destroys salmonella, leptospira, E. coli, protea and others, various cocci are sensitive to it, including staphylococci, streptococci, meningococci and gonococci, which usually cause acute, inflammatory, infectious processes. Before making a decision about the use of the drug, you should try simply to clean the stomach, then take Activated Carbon, Tetracycline or absorbents.

Indications for the use of this antibiotic are symptoms so disturbing that their presence should lead to medical intervention:

• spontaneous multiple painful vomiting;
• vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by the release of pus and blood;
• lack of positive dynamics after taking the sorbent and measures for purifying the stomach;
• significant increase in body temperature, despite the intake of antipyretic;
• deterioration of general physical condition, weakness, apathy.

However, even then the purpose of the drug, despite a pronounced pathological condition, is made after the test for the sensitivity of the pathogen to this type of antibiotic. The prevalence of the use of wide-spectrum medicines without the need has led to the fact that many bacteria have developed resistance to drugs. In such cases, the use of medication is useless simply because it has earned a good reputation, and it is necessary to look for a drug to which the bacteria did not have time to develop resistance.

3 It is important to know and consider

Antibiotics for poisoning are a thing, indisputably, necessary. But at their reception it is necessary to consider not only cases of influence of a medicine on a kind of a bacterium-causative agent, but also that for achievement of result the certain dose of a preparation is necessary, and reception of pair of tablets of a problem of destruction of an infection will not solve. To date, there is a whole generation of drugs that have a broad spectrum of action, greater efficacy, and a significantly smaller number of contraindications. In the admission of medicines, it is not the traditional use that is important, but the achievement of a result with less losses for the organism.

Admission of well-known drugs such as Levomycetin, Furazolidon and Furadonin often only exacerbates the general condition without exerting a therapeutic effect due to bacterial insensitivity to a particular type of antibiotic, but showing a progressive effect on indigestion and the course of diarrhea.

In self-administration, one should recall the presence in the body of chronic or spontaneous diseases like:

• of allergic reactions;
• of diabetes mellitus;
• oncological diseases;
• pathologies of the digestive system, especially the liver, pancreas, gallbladder;
• dysbiosis or dyspepsia;
• diseases of the cardiovascular system;
• problems with hematopoiesis, blood coagulability;
• skin dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema.

If at least one of the above is present, then problems after using this antibiotic just can not be avoided. Self-administration of the drug often leads to the fact that the drug does not have the desired effect, and the patient himself increases the dosage, and this leads to consequences that require a separate treatment.

No one denies the benefits of Levomycetin, but this medication should only be taken when it will have an effect, and it can only be determined by an infectious disease specialist after laboratory tests.

4 Contraindications to the ingestion of

Food poisoning is of two types. One is caused by bacteria, the other by toxins. When poisoning with toxins, Levomycetin is useless. Poisoning by the same products can be the result of a different type of poisoning effect. To determine which of them took place in this case, it is possible only with the help of a doctor. No clinical picture is able to give a clear possibility of determining the type of aggressive effect on the body, only analysis can do.

The popularity and prevalence of the antibiotic has led to the production of strains that have become resistant to the effects of the drug. It still effectively kills certain types of bacteria, but it is possible to determine which ones, again, with the help of clinical and laboratory studies. Do not wait for the appearance in the stool and vomiting of blood and pus, to decide that this is a bacterial infection, and make a mistake. It is much more effective to seek medical help if simple measures to cleanse the body have not helped and there has been no improvement. Conducting appropriate tests, the doctor will prescribe the remedy, determine the dosage, find out the contraindications, follow the dynamics, will help to recover.