Can anti-inflammatory drugs and antiviral drugs be taken together?

Anti-inflammatory drugs are a type of antibiotics, so they can effectively act on bacteria and help the body recover. Therefore, sometimes taking anti-inflammatory drugs and antiviral drugs together will reduce the efficacy of both and greatly reduce the effective ingredients of the drugs. But in fact, it is not completely impossible to use them together. As long as we understand the ingredients and use them correctly, we can still eat them together, but this requires professionals to give us correct guidance.

Anti-inflammatory drugs and antiviral drugs can be taken together, but they require a prescription from a professional doctor.

Antivirals are a class of medicines used to prevent and treat viral infections. It can inhibit viral replicase in vitro, inhibit viral replication or reproduction in infected cells or animals, and is an effective drug for the clinical treatment of viral diseases.

Viruses are the smallest pathogenic microorganisms. Their core contains nucleic acid (ribonucleic acid RNA or deoxyribonucleic acid DNA) and replication enzymes. They are covered with a protein shell and membrane. They have no cellular structure and lack a complete enzyme system. They must rely on the host's cells and enzymes to reproduce (replicate).

Anti-inflammatory drugs, in mainland China, usually refer to antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs.

If it is for infectious inflammation caused by infection, anti-inflammatory drugs actually refer to antibiotics. If the inflammation is not caused by infection, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents or steroids are used medically to suppress the inflammatory response.

In China, calling antibiotics anti-inflammatory drugs has exacerbated the abuse of antibiotics to a certain extent.

People with abnormal immune systems sometimes choose anti-inflammatory drugs to control inflammatory symptoms, but they will also choose different types of anti-inflammatory drugs according to the different sites of inflammation. For example, to treat allergic rhinitis, hormone nasal sprays are often used, while for arthritis, limb sprains, etc., anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs such as ibuprofen are chosen, such as the anti-inflammatory drugs mentioned by Doctor A in the previous story.