The Importance of Antibiotics

Today, resistance to antibiotics has increased and reached to a phase that places patient’s life in danger. Medical practitioners worldwide are concerned that more and more bacteria and viruses are becoming resistant to today’s drug. They are scared that in future antibiotics may become unaffected and useless. The researchers have already found bacteria that remain unaffected when treated with antibiotics. This may result in expensive medical treatment as new formula have to be developed.

Health stakeholders criticise the fact that antibiotics are being used in a wrong manner. Antibiotics are often prescribed in medical condition in which they do not work. The disappointing fact is in some regions, especially Third World countries and highly populated areas, like Bangladesh, India, China or Pakistan, hospitals are already running out of antibiotics. The doctors are prescribing antibiotics for very common infections, such as the common flu, which do not kill off bacteria, also making it ineffective for future illnesses.

Another reason is that agriculturalists in Europe and the United States are adding antibiotics to feed cattle, in order to make them grow sooner and produce more meat.

Many surgeries cannot be done if we are unable to treat infections. Moreover, the transplantation of body organs will become difficult if patients do not get the proper medication to strengthen the immune system. Pregnancy may threaten a woman’s life and even disease like malaria and pneumonia, which can be treated successfully with antibiotics, might once again become a threat to life.

Today, antibiotics have made many infections like tuberculosis curable. Moreover, cancer treatment would not be possible without the proper use of antibiotics to cure it.

Doctors and health experts call for rapid action to fight off infections and diseases.  Most important is the need to improve hygiene at the medical places, where infectious diseases start. Bacteria spread through the dirty water and the sewage system. Even a small thing, such as making people aware of the importance of washing their hands more often can stop the spread of bacteria and infectious diseases. Antibiotics are the best drugs ever discovered, but we really can’t continue to use them without better management.

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