Learn More About Antibiotics
Drugs that have revolutionized the history of medicine
, protecting man from deadly attack bacteria before, antibiotics are now an indispensable tool in the global war against infectious bacterial diseases. But infectious disease specialists from around the world are increasingly concerned about the inappropriate use of these substances, from the self-medication or the lack of knowledge about the mechanism of action of antibiotics, whose worst consequence is the creation of so-called superbugs, microorganisms for which there is hardly healing.
An international association that aims to alert physicians and the general public to the problems arising from the misuse of antibiotics, the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, now has a regional branch in Brazil. From time to time, it gives the alert, was identified in the hospital y, x in the maternity ward in a given community or a strain of bacteria that resists any of the known antibiotics. Normally removed by one of eight classes of antibiotics known hitherto common bacteria become unmatched practically immortal. And diseases that were healed by treatment with appropriate transformed into fatal diseases. "In situations of microbial multidrug resistance, it is as if we return to the pre-antibiotic era, when the doctors could not intervene in the natural course of infection.
Bacterial resistance is responsible for a significant increase in morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases and even other types of diseases that progress to an infection. Bacterial resistance is also responsible for a large increase in direct and indirect costs involved in the treatment of infections - which become more severe and prolonged, thus increasing the length of hospitalization of the patient and the removal of their activities. One of the bacteria that have become monstrous because of repeated use of inappropriate antibiotics is precisely that of tuberculosis, Mycobacter tuberculosis, which is transmitted from person. This explains the recent peak of incidence of the disease in countries where it seemed to be controlled, such as Brazil and even the United States.
In general, a patient with tuberculosis must take the antiboticos indicated by an average of six months without interruption. As medicines are not free from side effects and symptoms disappear long before the term of treatment, many patients stop taking antibiotics at your own risk. The result? "The goal of antibiotic treatment is not to eliminate the symptoms, but bacteria. If treatment is interrupted before the deadline, the bacteria are still alive, they are exactly the strongest, are ready for another attack." This observation is a kind of rule number one of a practical guide to making the correct antibiotics that Apua intend to publish.
How to take antibiotics
With the increasingly resistant bacteria and the actual progress of pharmacology, more bacteria and more antibiotics, the generation of synthesized by genetic engineering - and there is not always obvious correspondence between them. Because of the increasing resistance, drug before very effective against certain bacterial strain fail to make the desired effect. Then there are new families of antibiotics - the bacteria but also the "perfect". To have certainty about the effectiveness of each antibiotic against certain infections, it is necessary to know the profile of bacterial resistance in each region - it requires constant updating. Based on these observations, it is possible to establish some rules for treatment with other antibiotics, which may be useful for those who prescribe, dispense, and those who take:
- Antibiotics are drugs that aim only fight bacteria - not viruses, fungi or other microorganisms.
- Perhaps the grossest error is taking antibiotics in cases of bacterial infection does not - like most of throat infections, flu or diarrhea. Antibiotics, in fact, are downright contraindicated in diarrhea.
- The second error, already mentioned, is to stop treatment before the limitation period.
- There is no rule for the taking of antibiotics. Some must be taken fasting, other meals. Tetracyclines, for example, should not be eaten with milk. One more reason to condemn the self-medication of antibiotics.
by: Stiven Benson
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