How to choose antibiotics in the field

Traveling to inaccessible areas or expeditions is not only harsh and complex, but also lacks medical conditions. As emergency measures, wound healing, pain relief, allergies, and antibiotics are often prepared.

Antibiotics are considered to be the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century, but the non-standard use of antibiotics, is prone to drug resistance, and cause adverse reactions to the body.

Today, the World Wildlife Medical Association (WMAI) and everyone talked about the choice of wild antibiotics for exploration.

What is antibiotic?

Antibiotics, in short, are drugs that inhibit the growth of bacteria or kill bacteria.

Antibiotics are not anti-inflammatory drugs

There are many sources of inflammation in the human body, including bacterial infections, viral infections, fungal infections, allergies, and bruises that can cause the body to exhibit inflammation such as redness, swelling, heat, and pain. Antibiotics only target bacterial infections and have no anti-inflammatory effects on inflammation caused by viruses, fungi, allergies, and bruises.

What antibiotics do you choose to carry?

Before choosing, we need to assess the length of the field expedition, the type of outdoor sports, the characteristics of the destination environment, and the potential risks to be faced. We must also understand whether we have an allergic reaction to drugs.

Amoxicillin, as everyone knows, is an antibiotic drug that is a penicillin class. Although its safety is relatively high, a penicillin skin test must be performed before selection. If people who are allergic to penicillin or have a positive skin test should not choose it, it may trigger anaphylactic shock or a series of allergic symptoms.

Antibiotics recommendation list

According to the common human body parts/organs infection symptoms, Dr. David Johnson, President of the International Field Medical Association (WMAI), as an outdoor enthusiast with decades of wild adventure experience, has issued a list of antibiotics for us. Everyone's reference:

If you do not want to carry too many drugs, you can choose amoxicillin, ofloxacin/ciprofloxacin as emergency medicine.

The course of antibiotic treatment differs depending on the infection, and is usually taken until the body temperature is normal and the symptoms have subsided after 72 to 96 hours. If symptoms do not improve, be sure to seek medical advice.

It must be stated that the above antibiotics are not prescriptions for doctors, and that each of the body's substances and reactions to the drugs are different. It is also necessary to consult professional doctors as much as possible before choosing. Various drugs have more or less side effects, as do antibiotics. Therefore, antibiotics can only be used as emergency measures for field expeditions lacking medical conditions.