can penicillin cure STD?
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Sweet lil cannibal is obviously an uniformed moron.\n\nSTD is a term for "sexually transmitted disease". This covers a broad range of different diseases. Some are treated with antibiotics, some with drugs called antivirals and some with antifungals.\n\nGonnorhea, syphillis, chlamydia, bacterial vaginosis and trichomonas are all treated with antibiotics. Gonnorhea and syphillis both respond well to Penicillin.  Chlamydia does well with doxycycline, bacterial vaginosis with cephalosporins and trichomonas with  amoxicillin or tetracyclne.\n\nHerpes (or HSV) is not curable but is treatable with antivirals like Valtrex or acyclovir. Once contracted, herpes will remain in your system forever. Periodically (usually when under stress) someone with herpes will experience an outbreak of blisters on the genitals.   \n\nYeast infections are fungal and are treated with antifungal creams like Monistat or with a one tablet dose or oral Diflucan.\n\nHIV is not curable and is treated with combinations of powerful retroviral medications.\n\nThe best way to avoid contracting an STD is to NEVER HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX. \n\nFor more information go to www.plannedparenthood.org
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Today, S. aureus has become resistant to many commonly used antibiotics. In the UK, only 2% of all S. aureus isolates are sensitive to penicillin with a similar picture in the rest of the world. The β-lactamase resistant penicillins (methicillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin and flucloxacillin) were developed to treat penicillin-resistant S. aureus and are still used as first-line treatment. First line treatment for MRSA is currently glycopeptide antibiotics (vancomycin and teicoplanin).
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There are a couple of possibilities. Yes, run-don't walk back to your doctor. The antibiotics may not have worked. Is this rash painful? If you were diagnosed with gonorrhea is it possible your partner could have had something else? Like genital herpes? I really hope you don't have that, and you really need to call your doctor ASAP. If it is herpes they will need to see it, and you don't want the symptoms to go away before they can evaluate them. Good luck, and remember to use a condom next time!!!
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Penicillin must be taken until the pills run out. The reason is that we can suffer a relapse of the disease if the treatment is ended early. The bug comes back because not all of it is killed off when our symptoms cease. The reason why this happens is that penicillin only kills bacteria when they are dividing. It messes up cell wall production needed when the cells split into two. The antibiotic does not affect bacteria if they are resting. We can kill off most of the disease bacteia then cease treatment and the few remaining cells can start growing and reproducing again. Penecillin does not affect psylocin nor psilocybin that are found in many magic mushrooms. They are very different molecules.\nDoc. Dan.
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The penicillins are beta lectam antibiotics.  They work by preventing bacteria from producing cell walls by blocking the transpeptidation reaction. The reaction cross links glycan linked peptide chains, and without these, the cell wall is no longer stong enough. Also they stimulate the release of bacterial enzymes called autolysins which degrade the cell wall.\n\nPenicillins act on gram positive bacteria, and some modern synthetic penicillins are able to penetrate the capsule and act on gram negative.\n\nTaking this into account, i would say thats as a group they are broad spectrum because they act on most gram positive indescrimenantly and some gram negative. However, individually, some in the group may be considered narrow because they only act on a small group.\n\nI hope that helps
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You can try an over-the-counter treatment like Monistat if you KNOW it is a yeast infection and have had them before and treated them successfully.\n\nHowever, going to the doctor is really the best way to deal with something like this.  Yeast infections happen because of imbalances in the vagina and should really be evaluated by a doctor.\n\nI just submitted this answer and went back to read other people's answers that came in while I was typing.  One poster suggested a feminine wash.  Do NOT NOT NOT do this!  Douches are very bad for you and can cause further problems.  They will NOT cure the problem and will make it worse!  Further, that person said antibiotics will kill the yeast.  This is NOT true!  In fact, antibiotic usage can actually CAUSE yeast infections.
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well, if you take penicillin than the chances are very high.  Strep throat will pretty much always be cured unless you have a weakened immune system.
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Gonorrhoea, is among the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the world and is caused by Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. White discharge in both men and women is associated with the disease contained semen. It can be treated and fully cured by heavy dosage of antibiotics. \n\nWhereas AIDS an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome  is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors. There is no known cure for this. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast. \n\nGonorrhoea and AIDS have no relevance or connection, but a person can acquire both these diseases from different persons having this by frequent sexual contact with these patients.-
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Penicillin refers to a group of β-lactam antibiotics used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. The name “penicillin” can also be used in reference to a specific member of the penicillin group. Penicillins have the molecular formula R-C9H11N2O4S, where R is a variable side chain.\n\nThe serendipitous discovery of penicillin is usually attributed to Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, though others had earlier noted the antibacterial effects of Penicillium. He noticed a halo of inhibition of bacterial growth around a contaminant blue-green mould on a Staphylococcus plate culture. Fleming concluded that the mould was releasing a substance that was inhibiting bacterial growth. He grew a pure culture of the mould and discovered that it was Penicillium notatum (now known as Penicillium chrysogenum) – he later named the bacterial inhibiting substance “penicillin” after the Penicillium notatum that released it. Fleming was convinced after conducting some more experiments that penicillin could not last long enough in the human body to kill pathogenic bacteria and stopped studying penicillin after 1931, but restarted some clinical trials in 1934 and continued to try to get someone to purify it until 1940.\n\nIn 1939, Australian scientist Howard Walter Florey and a team of researchers (Ernst Boris Chain, A. D. Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J.Orr-Ewing and G.Sanders) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin. Their attempts to treat humans failed due to insufficient volumes of penicillin, but they proved its harmlessness and effect in mice. On 1942-03-14 John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient using penicillin\n\nDuring World War II, penicillin made a major difference in the number of deaths and amputations caused by infected wounds amongst Allied forces. Availability was severely limited, however, by the difficulty of manufacturing large quantities of penicillin and by the rapid renal clearance of the drug necessitating frequent dosing. Penicillins are actively secreted and about 80% of a penicillin dose is cleared within three to four hours of administration. During those times it became common procedure to collect the urine from patients being treated so that the penicillin could be isolated and reused. (Silverthorn, 2004)\n\nThis was not a satisfactory solution, however, so researchers looked for a way to slow penicillin secretion. They hoped to find a molecule that could compete with penicillin for the organic acid transporter responsible for secretion such that the transporter would preferentially secrete the competitive inhibitor. The uricosuric agent probenecid proved to be suitable. When probenecid and penicillin are concomitantly administered, probenecid competitively inhibits the secretion of penicillin, increasing its concentration and prolonging its activity. The advent of mass-production techniques and semi-synthetic penicillins solved supply issues, and this use of probenecid declined. (Silverthorn, 2004) Probenecid is still clinically useful, however, for certain infections requiring particularly high concentrations of penicillins. (Rossi, 2004)\n\nThe chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in the early 1940s, enabling synthetic production. A team of Oxford research scientists led by Australian Howard Walter Florey and including Ernst Boris Chain and Norman Heatley discovered a method of mass producing the drug. Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel prize in medicine with Fleming for this work. Penicillin has since become the most widely used antibiotic to date and is still used for many Gram-positive bacterial infections.\n\nAntibiotic resistance to penicillin was first observed in 1947, shortly after its introduction. Resistance to penicill
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In the US: Incidence of primary and secondary syphilis was about 100,000 cases in 1940, prior to the introduction of antibiotics.\n\nT pallidum is sensitive to the penicillins and is easily treatable in the early stages.\nBoth of these statements came from:\n\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic563.htm\n\nDepending on when the baby was born he/she may not have been treated (congenital syphilis) or had antibiotics.
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It depends on what you mean by "safe."  It sounds like you want to know when things are 100% safe, and the answer to that is, unfortunately, "never."\n\nFirst, antibiotics are never 100% effective.  Resistance may mean that the bacteria remain even after the full treatment.  \n\nSecondly, if a person has one STD, they often have another.  A man's genito-urinary system is notorious for "hiding" infections that would be more obvious in women. \n\nIf you are wondering when it is safe in a specific situation, then God only knows.  I'm not sure what antibiotic you are referring to - it doesn't sound like a typical treatment for gonorrhea.  (Some antibiotics have no effect on gonorrhea.)  \n\nThe answer you are probably looking for is how long does it take for the typical gonorrhea infection to clear after proper treatment.  In theory, it could be as soon as a few days, but each individual case is different.  I would say at least 2 weeks to be on the safe side.\n\nFinally, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use protection.  The only 100% effective protection is abstinence.  Condoms help, but they are not 100% effective against preventing STDs (even ones that do not break).
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Ampicillin is an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections.  It is in capsule form and it is usually taken 4 times a day on an empty stomach.  Be sure to take it until it is all gone.  Drink plenty of fluids while on it too.\n\nIf you are allergic to penicillin or cephalosporin, be sure to tell your doctor.  Also, if you take combination type birth control pills, your doctor needs to know.
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Chlamydia is right now the most common STD in the United States (1 million new cases per year).  It will need to be diagnosed by a physician first (any family practice, internal medicine dr. will do) who will then prescribe an antibiotic (azithromycin, doxycycline or some derivitive thereof).  Take the meds exactly as prescribed and don't wait to get treated.  Chlamydia can cause PID in women (a serious infection that can cause infertility) as well as serious infections in men.
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It is amino penicillin and anti microbial. It inhibits the growth as well as multiplicationof bacteria.It is used in Respiratory infections, otitis media, Helicobacter pylori infection with peptic ulcer, infective endocaditis, Genito urinary infections, amd endocaditis prophlaxis.  Contara indication-  those who are hypersensitive to peniclillin groups since it belong to the penicillin group
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1) Aspirin\n\n2)Penicillin\n\n3)Small Pox Vaccine\n\n4)Viagra - just kidding\n\n5)Hand Washing\n\nThe greatest I suspect is small pox vaccine.  The reason that I say that is prevention is better than a cure.  Remember the saying:  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Proctitis may be due to several different pathogens and different antibiotics may be indicated. Empiric therapy should be guided by local resistance patterns and antibiotic policies. As a general rule some wide-spectrum antibiotics are indicated as first choice unless a very specific cause has been identified. Doxycycline would be a reasonable bet for sexually transmitted diseases but there are several pathogens it will not work against.\n\nOnly a physical examination and history taking by a doctor can give a meaningful answer.
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I believe the virus is called vaginitis.  It can be cured with medication.  You could just have a mild UTI.  I would definitely go to the doctor.