Influenza Antibiotics for Viral Infections

Question: Describe about the Influenza for Antibiotics for Viral Infections. Answer: Part 1.1 The use of antibiotics for viral infections is not good because the antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections while the viral infections like influenza are treated using antiviral drugs (Keren et al., 2013). The prescription of phenoxymethylpenicillin to the patient was meant to treat other infections which had accompanied the influenza. Such symptoms were the painful joints and the patches on the tonsils. Part 1.2 During an infection, there is an increased flow of blood to various tissues in the body. This is aimed at reducing the loss of blood through the infected are which could have a broken skin leading to hemorrhage. As a result, the flow of blood is directed to other healthy tissues via vasodilation. Tissues with high blood flow are therefore too much oxygenated blood hence the reddening as seen in Peters throat. Part 1.3 The swollen throat in Peter was as a result inflammatory chemicals which make the capillaries to become permeable and leak their contents (Wang and Ye, 2015). Since the capillaries are just one cell layer thick, the inflammatory chemicals can diffuse out of the capillaries. As the plasma proteins leak out, they drain water with them. These mediators of inflammation usually generate their inflammatory effects on the areas where they are released by the cells. References Keren, I., Wu, Y., Inocencio, J., Mulcahy, L. R., Lewis, K. (2013). Killing by bactericidal antibiotics does not depend on reactive oxygen species. Science, 339(6124), 1213-1216. Wang, H., Ye, J. (2015). Regulation of energy balance by inflammation: Common theme in physiology and pathology. Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 16(1), 47-54.