Streptomycin is an antibiotic that is relatively unfamiliar to modern people. Compared with antibiotics such as cephalosporin and levofloxacin, it is incomparable in terms of breadth of use and therapeutic effect, but in the last century , but it is a real model of antibiotics, and many diseases, including “terminally ill” tuberculosis infections, also depended on it to survive.
Streptomycin is another important antibiotic after penicillin. Before the first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs such as isoniazid and rifampin were introduced, pulmonary tuberculosis was still an incurable and terminal disease. Repeated tuberculosis infection and loss of life, even if you survive by chance, there will be many sequelae, such as bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc., and will take people’s lives for a long time, and streptomycin is isoniazid. The effective anti-tuberculosis drug before the leveling, many patients survived because of the injection of this drug, of course, in addition to pulmonary tuberculosis, streptomycin has a certain effect on many pathogen infections, especially pneumonia caused by Gram-negative bacteria infection, etc. .
Severe side effects of streptomycin limit its use, such as ototoxicity, and nephrotoxicity. Some children have been injected with the drug and have suffered cochlear damage, deafness and loss of speech. , become deaf and dumb, some elderly people have kidney damage due to injection of this drug, and some even require long-term dialysis treatment to survive. In addition, in the last century, many people were crippled by injecting this drug on their buttocks to damage the sciatic nerve. In the video “Second Uncle Healed My Mental Internal Consumption” that has been swiped in the past two days, the second uncle should be because of this drug. And changed a life.
Nowadays, streptomycin is rarely used clinically. Most of it is used for rare infections that other antibiotics do not respond well to, but the method of buttock injection has basically been abandoned. Intravenous drip therapy.
