Therapeutic targets
- Elimination of the pathogens
- Avoidance of complications
Therapy recommendations
- Antibiosis (antibiotic therapy).
- Symptomatic therapy (analgesics/painkillers, antiemetics/anti-nausea and anti-nausea drugs, if necessary).
- See also under “Further therapy“.
Antibiotics Antibiotics are drugs that are administered when an infection with a bacterium is present. They act either bacteriostatic, by inhibiting the growth of bacteria, or bactericidal, that is, they kill the bacteria. Important representatives of this group of drugs are penicillin or cephalosporins. Penicillin is the drug of choice for scarlet fever. Erythromycin may be given as an alternative if the patient is allergic to penicillin.
