Essay On Antibiotics
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The use of antibiotics or antimicrobial has allowed our worlds nations to flourish for decades. Antibiotics have cured many serious bacterial infections and saved millions of lives due to epidemics and plagues. While antibiotics have helped our nations to flourish, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics or antimicrobials has increased the rate of developing antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is a constant fight between newer, stronger antibiotics and rapidly, evolving resistant bacteria; with no new classifications of antibiotics discovered since the 1970’s, antibiotic resistant bacteria are given the opportunity to dominate. Antibiotics are over prescribed to millions of people each year, studies say more than half of those prescriptions were to treat illness that antibiotics have no effect on. (Aminov,Rustam) Doctors need to stop writing unjustifiable prescriptions for antibiotics and patients need to stop demanding antibiotics from doctors when they are not necessary. The serious nature and likely consequences of misused antibiotics needs to be understood among the public. Knowing what antibiotics are, how they work in the body, and when you need to take them will reduce their widespread overuse. In addition, knowing why and how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and what tragedy will arise if abusing antibiotics continue. Most importantly, what action and prevention methods be can done to reverse this rise of power in infection causing bacteria. “Antibiotics are a broad class of chemicals that are capable of either inhibiting growth or killing bacteria.” (“FAS - Antibiotic Resistance Case Study”) Antibiotics have no effect on viral infections like the common cold of flu. (Antibiotics:MedlinePlus) There are many classes of... ... middle of paper ... ...rdest prevention method is to prevent the spread of bacteria and ultimately superbugs between public. If everyone could cover there sneeze, or cough, and then wash their hands; the spread of infections would decrease drastically. Antibiotics have allowed our humans to thrive on this world. “Since the 1940s, these drugs have greatly reduced illness and death from infectious diseases. Antibiotic use has been beneficial and, when prescribed and taken correctly, their value in patient care is enormous.” Antibiotics need to be used conservatively to maintain their value and to keep resistant bacteria evolving at a slow place. Bacteria will naturally always be evolving to antibiotics however, careful use and distribution of these antibiotics combined with various prevention methods will maintain a slower rate of evolution; to allow our worlds nations to continue thriving.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has increased the rate of developing antibiotic resistant bacteria.
- Explains that antibiotics are a broad class of chemicals that inhibit growth or kill bacteria. they have no effect on viral infections like the common cold of flu.
- Opines that the antibiotic era is thought to be the approximately last seven decades, although there is evidence of exposure to forms of antibiotics in what was considered the pre-antibiotic period.
- Explains the antibacterial qualities of the artemisia plant were extracted and refined in the 1970s. other herbs from chinese traditional medicine also show signs of antimicrobial activity.
- Explains that paul ehrlich and alexander fleming invented the "magic bullet" that would only target disease-causing microbes, not the host.
- Explains that alexander fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, on accident due to a messy laboratory. howard florey and ernest chain isolated and purified the penicillin that was needed for testing.
- Explains that antibiotics are evolving at an alarming fast rate after widespread overuse and misuse for over 70 years.
- Explains that misused antibiotics are the number one cause in resistant bacteria, and drug resistance is a worldwide problem.
- Explains how the center for disease control and prevention categorizes drug-resistant superbugs by threat level for the first time.
- Explains that the cre (carbapenmen-resistant enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are a family of germs that are resistant to all existing antibiotics.
- Explains that clostridium difficile (c-diff) is a bacterium that causes problems in the colon. symptoms range from mild diarrhea to life-threatening diarrhea.
- Explains that neisseria gonorrhoeae is a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea. mrsa is resistant to all antibiotics except vancomycin.
- Opines that antibiotic resistance is a world wide problem and it needs to be addressed worldwide. antibiotics are powerful drugs, but they are not effective against viral infections.
- Opines that new antibiotics need to be discovered, researched, and tested for human use, despite their cost.
- Explains that antibiotics are being pumped into farm animals, our food source, for various reasons, and it needs to be stopped. the food and drug administration (fda) is implementing a voluntary plan with industry’s to phase out the use
- Opines that prevention methods are needed to keep evolving bacteria at its slowest rate. one of the most useful prevention measures is to detect and track the changes and patterns in antibiotic resistant bacteria.
- Explains that the simplest yet hardest prevention method is to prevent the spread of bacteria and ultimately superbugs between public.
- Opines that antibiotics have greatly reduced illness and death from infectious diseases since the 1940s. antibiotics need to be used conservatively to maintain their value and to keep resistant bacteria evolving at a slow place.
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that antibiotics are constantly needed and new developments are crucial to human society. antibiotics began in the laboratory through scientist’s discoveries.
- Analyzes the impact of industrialization on the quality of antibiotics. large scale production has increased the chances of impurities and problems being missed within the containers.
- Analyzes how industrialization has made antibiotics more available than ever before. the study of cancer, diabetes, and hiv has stolen the spotlight of what scientists and pharmacologists are researching.
- Explains that the american dream is what many people possess, the dream to be successful and make money, which causes greed. antibiotic producing companies have gone to finding ways to treat chronic diseases.
- Argues that the antibiotic bubble is a frightening thought, as bacteria like mrsa are immune to the antibiotics we have today, making them something to be aware of.
- Explains that pfizer was the first company to produce antibiotics in this large scale way. industrialization feeds into our capitalist society by creating big business to create the newly industrialized product.
- Opines that industrialization may be the one thing to save antibiotics as we know them. government groups like fda, idsa, and congress are making strides to create a better market.
- Concludes that industrialization was a great thing for antibiotics, but the american ideals got out of hand, causing it to be bad.
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- Explains that antimicrobial drug resistance (amdr) is a clinical phenomenon. it is the natural consequence of pathogen adaptation to antibiotics used in medicine, animal food, agriculture, and household activities.
- Explains that antibiotic medication saved many people's lives by combating bacteria. however, some bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.
- Opines that doctors and patients don't maintain the bio-ethical consideration for antibiotics resistant in bangladesh, an under-developing country.
- Explains that antibiotic resistant pathogens are causing the worst outcome for chronic and debilitating diseases of infectious origin including cancers.
- Explains that according to the world health organization, approximately 1000 million people will be infected with tb, over 150 million are sick and 36 million will die of mdr-tb within 2020.
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- Explains that drug resistance is a neglected issue in bioethics and an underappreciated topic in medical, economical and policy issues.
- Explains that sellers dispense expired drugs or low-quality drugs and enhance the danger of drug toxicity, treatment failure, and promote antibiotic resistance. penicillin, erythromycin and ciprofloxacin resistance are more clinically important in the asian community.
- Explains that belief and financial ability are the focus for patient perspectives. patients from a wealthy background take all pills including leftovers, while poor people cannot afford required drugs.
- Opines that intervention for less antimicrobial use should focus on public including monitoring of nonprescription used drugs. only 26% of countries adopted a national strategy and only half implemented public awareness and education program in 2003-2005.
- Explains that bangladesh has inadequate health facilities and health care providers. people can buy any drug except narcotic analgesic without prescription.
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- Explains that poverty plays a crucial role in antibiotic consumption. poor antimicrobial policy, illiteracy, financial inability to seek expert opinion, depend on the drug seller or non-physician providers are the main causes of antibiotic resistance in developing countries.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that antibiotics are becoming a major concern as it can endanger our health, even resulting to death.
- Explains that 39% of 51% bacteria that cause post-surgical infection are resistant to antibiotics, leading to 120,000 infections and 6,000 deaths annually in the united states.
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- Explains that there are many forms of antibacterial chemicals in existence. they attack bacteria by binding to the ribosomes in the cell.
- Advises against taking antibiotics every time they feel ill. antibiotics are only good for bacterial infections. if you take them when you have a viral infection, you can make yourself worse.
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- Argues that antibiotics face a huge setback with the advent generation. the issue of misuse needs more attention than any other moment in the history.
- Explains that antibiotics are one of the societal drugs since humans are so dependent on it. the antibiotic resistance passes from one bacteria to another.
- Explains that the unregulated sale is a primary source of misuse and abuse of the antibiotics. people use them frequently as they could like to use since there is no regulation on the distribution and marketing.
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- Opines that the regulatory committee should come up with the regulation that governs all process of consumption of antibiotics.
- Opines that the alliance of prudent use of antibiotics (apua) can take the initiative to ensure that sales people and all over the counter sales are limited.
- Opines that a central distribution system is established to allow for legal distribution of antibiotics. mobile clinics could assist in the distribution.
- Opines that they are uncertain of the future of antibiotics as people who acknowledge that there is deficiency because they know that the issue is a fight.
- Opines that regulation and rules are not just enough to stop misuse and keep antibiotics at work. it is a social responsibility of an individual to educate themselves with knowledge and conscious decision making.
- Opines that emea, ecdc, who and other international regulatory bodies need to be involved in the process of attaining the goals since they are stakeholders of health.
- Opines that we have a challenge, an opportunity, and knowledge. we will make it if we stick together, joint hands and move towards one goal. it takes commitment, effort, passion and hardworking.
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- Explains that bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria by interfering with the formation of the bacterium's cell wall or its contents.
- Explains that bacteriostatic antibiotic stops bacteria from multiplying by interfering with bacterial protein production, dna replication, or other aspects of cellular metabolism.
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- Explains that it was common to die young, not because they might have been stabbed or killed in a heroic battle, but because of the small prick along their skin in the course of daily chores.
- Explains that the village doctors couldn't save them from the poisoned bacteria that pumped through their veins. the toxin took its toll as they lay cold and shiver.
- Explains that the vast majority of the population tended to die from infections before the advent of modern medicines.
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- Explains that bacteria will naturally toughen up to defend themselves against chemical attacks directed at them from other bacteria. things like penicillin, which are normally present in mold, can become ineffective in a manner similar to the evolving chemical warfare bacteria pit against each other for survival.
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