Antibiotics: Saviors Turned Deadly

In a year, patients who did not enter the hospital prescribed 133 million antibiotics, but about 50% was unnecessary. Antibiotics are considered "magical medicines" because they may once make a fatal illness a simple inconvenience. However, different methods of prescribing antibiotics by physicians may affect long-term and short-term effects of the entire population. In order to correct these errors, physicians must understand that using antibiotics without caution can cause serious and widespread problems.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, secretary general of the World Health Organization (WHO), says: "The lack of effective antibiotics is as serious as the sudden death of the disease Important:" A group of animals treated with antibiotics creates drug-resistant bacteria, To farm workers or through food.The Super Bug MRSA has been found in a large sample of pork products on the UK supermarket shelf, according to a guardian survey, the risk of people being infected with this strain There is sex.

Are there sisters, uncles, cousins, or friends whose lives are reversed by a fatal bacterial infection? In most cases, they are a happy ending - an important corner of transformation with the help of "right" antibiotics. We can not help but think about what kind of life will be without these magical medicines. But this could soon be our future, our new reality. Bacteria are increasingly more resistant to life-saving antibiotics, largely because they are overworked. Many people are not aware that livestock production is the main factor in this problem. Finally, about 70% of all human important antibiotics sold in the United States are used for edible animals; most of them are used to promote growth and disease prevention of untreated animals .

Despite increased consciousness, doctors continue to use antibiotics, patients continue to refrain antibiotic therapy. At the same time, the livestock industry consumes 70% of US antibiotics to breed antibiotic-resistant meat, soil and even farmers to keep animals healthy. According to the British report of 2014, it is estimated that by 2050 10 million people die every year due to antibiotic resistance. Experts are still discussing the imminent antibiotic-resistant tsunami, but one thing is obvious: in 2018 it rarely dies from debris, but in 2080 they look a little different ing.