What happens if you take too much ceftriaxone?

In daily life, cephalexin is not unfamiliar to many people. It is a common medical drug that can be used to treat diseases such as inflammation or wound infection. It has a good effect on anti-inflammatory and disease treatment. Cephalosporin is also a drug. Taking too much will have certain side effects on the body. It will easily produce drug resistance and easily lead to bacterial imbalance.

What happens if you take too much ceftriaxone?

Frequent use of cephalosporin antibiotics can easily cause dysbacteriosis and increase bacterial resistance. Taking too much of them will definitely have an impact on your body. The body's drug resistance gradually increases. If you are infected by a virus in the future, the efficacy of oral cephalosporin will drop rapidly or even become ineffective, seriously affecting the normal treatment of the disease. Long-term dependence on drugs will reduce one's own regulatory ability and immunity, while increasing the harm of drug toxicity to people.

Side effects of taking ceftriaxone

Misconception 1: Antibiotics are cold medicines: Many people use antibiotics to treat colds or believe that antibiotics can reduce fever. In fact, although antibiotics can fight bacteria and certain microorganisms, they cannot fight viruses. Most colds are viral infections. If antibiotics are used indiscriminately, it will only increase their side effects and make the body resistant to drugs.

In addition, when patients have bacterial infections, they will have fever. After using antibiotics, the inflammation will subside and the body temperature will naturally return to normal. However, not all fevers are caused by bacterial infections. Common colds are caused by viruses and can also cause fever, and antibiotics are not effective.

Misconception 2: The new generation is better than the previous generation: Many people believe that the third-generation cephalosporins and the fourth-generation cephalosporins are new and expensive, and their efficacy must be better than the first-generation and second-generation cephalosporins.

Clinical practice has shown that the inexpensive first-generation cephalosporin has better antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus than the third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins. Doctors believe that the newer and more expensive the antibiotics are, the more effective they are not. What is important is what bacteria cause the infection and where the infection occurs. Doctors should choose antibiotics that have strong effects on pathogenic bacteria and high concentrations at the site of infection to achieve the best therapeutic effect.

Main Features

Cephalosporins can be distributed in various parts of the body, so they can be used when infection occurs in various tissues and organs as long as the pathogens are sensitive to cephalosporins. It is a bactericide that can kill bacteria if the concentration is sufficient. It is not like antibacterial agents such as tetracycline, erythromycin and chloramphenicol, which mainly inhibit bacterial growth at conventional doses. Therefore, cephalosporins can be used for more serious infections.

Advantage 1: Cephalosporins have a broad antibacterial spectrum and have good antibacterial effects on both some Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. (Bacteria are stained with Gram stain, those stained purple-blue are positive bacteria, and those stained deep red are negative bacteria.) That is to say, cephalosporins often have certain antibacterial activity against most common pathogens in various clinical departments such as internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and dermatology, and are therefore widely used in clinical practice.

Advantage 2: If bacteria produce enzymes that destroy certain antibiotics, they may become resistant to these antibiotics. For example, if bacteria are resistant to penicillin, cephalosporins are relatively stable to most of the enzymes produced by bacteria and can replace penicillin to kill bacteria. There are relatively many types of oral cephalosporins. This is because many varieties are taken orally into the stomach, and the human body's stomach acid has difficulty destroying them, so their efficacy is relatively stable.

Advantage three: Compared with penicillin, the incidence of penicillin allergic reaction is relatively high, especially penicillin can cause anaphylactic shock and be fatal. The molecular structure of cephalosporin is similar to that of penicillin and can also cause allergic reactions, but the rate of allergic reactions is lower than that of penicillin, and the incidence of anaphylactic shock is even lower.