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HEALTH - Excessive use of antibiotics, including the lack of or below the dose recommended by your doctor, will create microorganisms that are resistant to antibiotics and can even cause death.
Discovered in the 1940s, antibiotics are a powerful type of drug that kills the bacteria that cause infections, including tuberculosis, strep throat and urinary tract infections.
Although it is very effective to overcome the infection, antibiotics are powerless in dealing with viruses and diseases caused by viruses, including flu and colds.
When prescribing antibiotics, doctors will remind patients to spend a given drug (one strip for a capsule or a bottle of syrup), do not stop drinking until nothing is left.
Bacteria are single-celled microorganisms. Your body is a host to many bacteria. They live in many places such as the gastrointestinal tract, skin, mouth, including the genitals.
The number of bacterial cells in the body outnumber human cells with a ratio of one to ten.
The number of micro-organisms, especially in the intestines, providing much needed relief to the biological process, for example to help digest the food that goes into your body. Most bacteria are "friends" because of the kindness.
However, not all bacteria are beneficial. There is also detrimental, invade the immune system and make you sick. When doctors prescribe antibiotics, the intention is simply to kill microorganisms that "evil" and let the good.
Resistant bacteria
Unfortunately, antibiotics are not always able to kill all the bad bacteria. Just like other genetic forms of life, bacteria can mutate over time.
Bad bacteria that manage to survive can change their DNA to become more powerful than antibiotics. This is called antibiotic resistance. Generally, these resistant microorganisms called "superbug".
Whenever you are taking antibiotics, you also kill some beneficial bacteria in your body. Because there is a vacancy "space" left by the good bacteria, resistant bacteria will quickly multiply, and the transfer of drug resistance to other bacteria.
For this reason, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, will certainly contribute to the proliferation of suberbug.
What is meant is the gratuitous use of antibiotics; usage exceeds, the use of which is under-dose (no drug spending per physician), are easy to use antibiotics when the body is still able to heal itself, the use of antibiotics for viral infections known when the drug was less effective, and other forms of abuse.
If the bacteria in the body become resistant to the drugs, you can get recurrent infections, which would be more difficult to treat because the same types of drugs that will not work, so doctors are forced to prescribe new antibiotics that are stronger and more broad-spectrum.
In the United States, the CDC reported that there are about 23,000 deaths every curiosity caused by the misuse of antibiotics.
When doctors advise you to spend a medicine which he gave, doctors hope all the bad bacteria in your body will be destroyed and there is nothing left later become resistant.
An article in the New York Times mentions, each doctor would issue a different standard for the use of antibiotics and prescribe a different duration of each treatment.
The article also reported on data from several studies suggest that lower doses of antibiotics, it will be better and will reduce the likelihood of resistance.
As a patient, of course you should comply with the advice of the doctor, but you are also entitled to discuss your wishes and concerns regarding the possibility of the occurrence of bacterial resistance.
Adding insight and open communication with your doctor is the key to prevent something bad happens. After that, you are expected to comply with the agreement with the doctor to take the drug as directed.
