Monday, May 23, 2011
Medicine - Antibiotics and sugar
"A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down"?
There's is always something new in the medical world.
Sometimes it just a simple thing...
There's is always something new in the medical world.
Sometimes it just a simple thing...
Esther Inglis-Arkell recently reported on the IO9 website:
"Adding some ordinary sugar to the antibiotic helps it kill off persisters. Bacteria, persister and not, feed on sugars. Persisters survive by shutting down their metabolism when antibiotics strike, but if they're stimulated by sugar, they just keep feeding. This allows the antibiotics to destroy them exactly the way ordinary bacteria are destroyed."
