Bacterial Infections
What is Bacterial Infection?
Bacteria can be found, by the billions, all around us: on furniture and counter-tops, in the soil, and on plants and animals.Bacterias are a natural and needed part of life. In fact, they often protect us by competing with more dangerous bacteria for food and space. Bacteria cause disease and infection when they are able to gain access to more vulnerable parts of our bodies and multiply rapidly. Bacteria can infect many parts of the body, including:
- eyes
- ears
- throat
- sinuses
- lungs
- airways
- skin
- kidneys
- bladder
- stomach
- colon
- brain
- heart
- bones
- genitals
- blood
Over a person's lifetime, the immune system develops millions of antibodies. In response to a bacterial invasion, the antibodies bind to bacteria and then attract complement and phagocytes, which kill the bacteria.
When the bacteria succeeds in multiplying to the point where the body's natural defenses are not adequate, antibiotics may be needed to either destroy the bacteria completely, or else kill enough of them so that the immune system can finish the job.
Bacterial Infections Symptoms
Bacterial infections mainly make a healthy human being get noticeably sick. When a body is infected by the bacteria, its immune system triggers up to fight these pathogens, which mainly results into fever, cold and cough etc. Bacterial infection symptoms differ according to the type of bacterial infection and the location of the same. Predominant symptoms of bacterial infection are seen as swelling, pain and discharge in the affected body region.- Strep throat
- Sinus infections
- Dehydration
- Peptic ulcer or stomach ulcer
- Indigestion
- Stiffness in neck and back
- Urinary tract infections
- Yeast infection
- Pharyngitis
- Colored nasal discharge
- Headaches
- Nausea
- Meningitis
- Lethargy and fatigue
- Stomach pain and stomach inflammation
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Sepsis
- Painful acne and boils
