BIOS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic, Tetracycline, Hemoglobin
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Bios 111 disease of the day - metals lecture 22 (3/6/17) Weakened defenses make people susceptible to disease. Wounds, punctures, bug bites, broad spectrum antibiotics, immunosuppressive drugs, aids, primary infections, and excess iron. Tetracycline kills normal protective microbiota in our intestines. It was common for dutch scientists to be prisoners in the 1940s. After a few months of imprisonment, they had fungi growing on them. They lost weight and got weaker over the years; the fungi disappeared. When they got released, they went back to normal diet and the fungi came back. Consequence of vitamins being needed to put zinc in the skin. Zinc is in the skin for protection against many fungal infections. When the skin had too little zinc, the fungi didn"t grow. When the skin had lots of zinc, the fungi didn"t grow. We need iron in blood for hemoglobin.
