Sunday, March 17, 2024

Summary on misuse of antibiotics and its consequences on human health.

In 1940, Antibiotics were introduced to the world. There's no place where people live without antibiotics, even when people have a chance to quit using them to save their lives. Most of the antibiotics are costly and have many serious side effects. Throat infection and the infected cuts can become fatal. Operations of these are impossible to perform such as organ transplant and hip replacement. Misuse of antibiotics allows most bacterial infections to survive inside the body, making it dangerous and difficult to treat. Superbugs are more powerful than antibiotics, which is the main challenge in global health. Treating animals, who are already healthy, with antibiotics to boost their production leads to resistance, which will spread to humans, who intake animal products through the food chain. Antimicrobial resistance spreads through poor infection control and the lack of daily practices. Some of the patients share the unfinished antibiotics with their relatives to prevent a virus, but the antibiotics may not be able to cure. Many respiratory tract infections can't be cured via antibiotics but still, patients request their doctor and the doctor listens to their patients. In hospitals, there are hotbeds for antibiotic-resistant infections, which Clostridium Difficile is a bacteria which causes severe diarrhoea.

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