Doxiclat 100 mg

How does the component?

Doxycycline is used to treat bacterial infections.

Millions of different bacteria, viruses or fungi in our bodies every day trying to penetrate. They live in the air, water, food or other people and animals. Not all harm to humans - some we even need. Useful organisms form our skin flora, a natural shield against pathogens. Others turn help us with digestion.

In the normal immune system destroys the harmful intruders before they can install and multiply. Is the body's defenses weakened by stress, cold or disease, the pathogen can multiply and spread out undisturbed. There is an infection. Especially in people with weak immune systems, such as children, the chronically ill and people over 60 years, an infection can damage organs and the brain and in the worst case, even life-threatening.

Against any agent type has its own medicine. Act against bacteria, antibiotics, antivirals against viruses and fungi against antifungal agents. Doxycycline is effective against bacteria. It is an antibiotic from the group of tetracyclines. It inhibits the bacterial proteins without which they can not reproduce.

Before treatment with antibiotics should first be determined whether the infection is really caused by bacteria, and which exact type of bacteria is the polluter. On the one hand, each antibiotic is only effective against specific bacteria, on the other hand, many bacteria are already resistant to antibiotics (resistant), as they were in the past often used incorrectly. Only when we see what the bacteria can not determine, for example because threatening complications are expected, it may be useful in advance to take an antibiotic that is effective against many different bacteria (broad spectrum antibiotics).

Doxycycline is used with the following bacterial infections: upper and lower respiratory tract, ear, nose and throat, urogenital tract (Chlamydia), skin and soft tissue (acne, rosacea, Lyme disease), stomach and intestinal bile.