Antibiotic Overload
Posted On May 21, 2010
Too much is too much. And you and I should take an active role in making sure our doctors aren’t over-prescribing antibiotics — because WE lose in the long term!!
If you want to create, on purpose, bacteria that can’t be killed by our anti-biotics, a great way to do that is to throw our antibiotics at everything. Natural selection will do what it does, and you’ll have a huge problem on your hands. Congrats.
In fact, patients whose doctors over-prescribe antibiotics can develop drug resistance that lasts up to a year, putting them and the population at risk when more serious treatment is needed, scientists said this Wednesday.
“But the more we prescribe, the more the bacteria become resistant. And really the only way of turning that vicious cycle into a virtuous circle is to only prescribe when it is absolutely necessary in the first place.”
Experts say the annual cost in the US of treating infections from drug-resistant bacteria is more than $1.87 billion — more than the yearly cost of treating flu.
| Reuters
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