The main source of inflammation is a series of reactions caused by immunity after microbial infection, such as fever, redness, pain, suppuration and so on. The root cause is microbial infection.

The role of antibiotics is very simple, that is, to kill infected microorganisms. The full name of antibiotics is called antibacterial drugs, and its function is to destroy microorganisms that cause body infections as much as possible, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. However, antibiotics themselves can not eliminate inflammation after infection, but can only prevent inflammatory reaction caused by microbial infection. But the inflammatory reaction that has happened now cannot be eliminated by antibiotics.

However, killing microorganisms after using antibiotics is definitely effective in alleviating the inflammatory reaction, so that the body will not continue to have the inflammatory reaction caused by infection, and the inflammation that has occurred is mainly relieved by the body's own recovery skills. Some drugs can alleviate the inflammatory reaction, such as the anti-inflammatory components in most cold medicines (these anti-inflammatory components can not sterilize or kill viruses, but only relieve the symptoms of inflammation).

So people generally confuse anti-inflammatory drugs with antibiotics, and cephalosporins belong to antibiotics. If the infection must be treated with antibiotics first, the bacteria can be killed before the inflammation is eliminated.