Is a vaccination and an antibotic a medication?

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Interesting question. Usually a vaccination is not considered a medication because it is not treating a specific condition. Vaccinations are preventative and affect your immune system; you get a vaccine so that your immune system will recognize and fight a foreign invader should you come in contact with that "foreign virus, bacterium, etc)

Antibiotics are medications.

There are autogenous and autologous vaccines that contain fungi and bacteria that are used as medicines. Some formulations incubate an active infection in the patient's skin, nasal passages, throat, etc and then make a vaccine out of the patient's "bugs" and inject the patient using a specific dosing schedule. This has created active immunity. If you think about allergy vaccinations...these are "medicines" that are created specifically for whatever a patient is allergic to.

There are anti-infective ingredients used as preservatives in vaccines, but these are not used to treat the patient's disease, they are used to keep the vaccine pathogen free.

In a nutshell, a medication is a remedy that cures a patient. An antibiotic is a medication that cures specific infections. Vaccinations can be either medicinal or preventative.

What the world needs is a vaccine to prevent defensive medicine!!