ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: THE GLOBAL MENACE
Hello my intellectual and lovely readers today here
with one of biggest issue of the World.
Antibiotics resistance has become the global challenge
and matter of great concern today. Antibiotic are the drugs used to treat
bacterial and fungal infections, originally defined as the chemicals derived
from microbes to kill or inhibit the growth of microbes.
Resistance is the capability of bacteria or microbe
to remain unaffected by the action of antibiotic to which it was once liable.
This did not happen in a day or year. When Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the
world’s first antibiotic Penicillin, situation was different it brought a
revolution in field of health and medicine, earlier mortality rate was very
high because of such deadly microbial infections. With time and subsequent
discoveries in antibiotics we got rid of many infectious disease.
But now situation has become worst. Antibiotics
which are being used predominantly everywhere as the major contaminating agent
of environment. Now use of antibiotics is enhanced in animal husbandry, dairy
farms, human and veterinary medicinal purpose and leaving residues everywhere
whether it be soil, surface water, ground water or drinking water that has
become a matter of greatest concern no one is free of contact of antibiotics.
Direct contact by administration of antibiotics on
the prescribed regimen by the clinician when we being caught by any bacterial
or fungal infection is just unavoidable. But the problem is arising due to
incessant prescribing by the doctor even if he is not sure of the infection
whether it is bacterial or fungal. Sometimes we see doctors prescribing and
even people are taking by themselves antibiotics even for cold and flu which
are viral infection and nothing has to do with bacteria. For meat preservation
also antibiotics are being used so we can see everywhere there are antibiotics.
Microbes has become resistant now high dose and higher generation antibiotics
also not being effective that’s all because of resistance. Developed countries
had made strict rules and restrictions on controlled use of antibiotics.
People in our country need to be more aware of the
use as I have personally observed people taking antibiotics in self medication.
They don’t realise medicine won’t work when they will actually have that
infection. Doctors and clinicians also responsibly prescribe antibiotics after
confirmation of infecting species and should not prescribe if not required.
Stay safe stay healthy and if infection is not
complicated one use our natural remedies like honey, ginger, tulsi turmeric etc
proved to be very effective .Developed countries have more patents on them than
ours own .
Deepti M Sati
