[Damage caused by antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents]

Side effects of antibiotics are based on direct toxic effects, depending on dose and excretion function, on allergico-immunological reactions and on interactions with other pharmaca. Furthermore the falsification of laboratory parameters and the disturbance of the microecology are significant. World-wide clinical observations lasting for decades are the basis of the knowledge about frequent and infrequent side effects. As to the most frequently used remedies from the groups of the antibiotics, antimicrobial chemotherapeutics and systemic antimycotics, these side effects were described in detail.