In our daily life, everyone will surely have a simple accident such as the cut finger etc., which could cause bacteria to enter our body through a wound. And those germs could kill us. To eliminate those bacteria, we need to take antibiotics.
Antibiotics are medicines that fight and against infections caused by bacteria in our bodies. Antibiotics were first discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1982, called Penicillin. And the last new class of antibiotics discovered in the early 1980s. Currently, most people are misusing antibiotics to treat infections caused by viruses such as a cold, cough, or the flu. In addition, many people do not know that the disease is caused by bacteria or a virus. As a result of the misuse antibiotics, the bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. If we get an antibiotic-resistant infection, we may have many effects. For example, we may not be able to resist the disease with our own immune system, we may have a longer-lasting illness, we may have to visit our doctor more, we may require hospitalization, and we may need more costly medicine that may cause side effects.
However, we can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections by various ways as follows. First of all, make sure that our illness is from bacterial infections. Second, do not take an antibiotic for a viral infection. Third, do not save antibiotics for the next time we get sick. Fourth, do not take antibiotics prescribed for someone else. Fifth, take our antibiotics exactly as our health care provider such as doctor or pharmacist tells us. And lastly, we need to take a whole course of antibiotics to be sure that the infection has gone away. If we do not take a whole course of antibiotics, some bacteria may survive and re-infect.
In conclusion, antibiotic resistance has become a serious health problems, which caused a lot of damage to our bodies. But we can prevent these problems by taking care of ourselves, studying the data of our own illness before buying the medicine to eat, and taking antibiotics as prescribed.