antibiotic

First, doctors clean the infected wound and administer antibiotics, killing the bacteria and preventing further toxin production.

What most people worry most about though are harmful amounts of pesticides, antibiotics, or hormones.

Doctors have learned that appendicitis can often be treated with a simple course of antibiotics, started in the emergency room and continued at home.

Some of these antimicrobial peptides have proven so promising they’re even being investigated for human antibiotic uses.

Nevertheless, thanks to his story, doctors on remote stations in Antarctica now know to bring plenty of antibiotics to treat appendicitis, just in case.