Question

A patient is prescribed an antibiotic for a sinus infection. What information is the most important for the nurse to reinforce with the patient?
a) Throw away used tissues in the waste can
b) Finished the entire does of antibiotics
c) Gargle with warm salt water
d) Increase your calorie intake

Answer 1

Answer

b)Finished the entire dose of antibiotics.

The nurse should reinforce the patient to finished the entire dose of antibiotics because

If the patient had not taking the antibiotics even before the prescribed period , the bacterias have the potential to grow again and that too at a rapid speed. Bacterias are more likely to multiply, aggravating the symptoms all over aggrevating the symptoms.

The most efficient way of causing bacteria to become resistant is to undertreat it. This can be done by killing the bacteria rapidly.

when the bacterias multiply they randomly change their DNA, thus making them resistant to antibiotics.

Thus, when they multiply one can have a host of bacterias which no longer respond to the antibiotics.

The resistance may develop when patient take antibiotics at next time and the drug effect cannot kill the micro organisms.