Question

A man catches a disease. The man has not been immunised against this disease. A doctor gives the man a course of antibiotics. Figure 2 shows how the live number of live disease in the body changes when the man is taking the antibiotics. Four days after starting the course of antibiotics the man feels well again. It is important that the man does not stop taking the antibiotics .Explain why

Answer 1

Answer: To kill the bacteria causing the illness

Explanation:

When a person takes antibiotics, the bacteria causing diseases will be severely hampered in its operations which will lead to the symptoms of the disease reducing. The bacteria will not die until the drug is taken as prescribed which is why the full dosage must be taken.

If it is not, the bacteria can regain strength and start causing sickness again except this time, it may grow an immunity to the antibiotics which means that an even stronger dosage of antibiotics will be needed.