It often happens that an antibiotic is prescribed in the right situation, but does not help. This is a separate hot topic in medicine.
It could be an antibiotic-resistant microbe that doesn't react to anything. There are several reasons for this.
Brute force
People swallow pills where necessary and not necessary. For example, common bacterial sore throat with purulent deposits on the tonsils requires antibiotics only if the doctor tests positive for group A streptococcus.
Or if an antibiotic is prescribed for common bronchitis.
In such situations, the body itself will cope without antibiotics.
Wrongly prescribed
Do you think that you can choose the drug for pneumonia according to your taste? No. There is a strict prescription algorithm depending on the patient's age, comorbidities, history of his stay in other hospitals in recent months, and so on. Otherwise it will not work.
Or today, for example, my aunt pissed me off, who removed half of the antibiotics from the prescription for bilateral pneumonia, because she thought (!) That there were too many pills.
These are the aunts who leave in their bodies wounded microbes that will not die, but will multiply and then will attack other people. Only antibiotics will no longer work on them.
Agriculture
Unexpected, right? Livestock breeders use so many antibiotics on their farms that there will be a hell of resistant microbes around these farms.
This is how they train a whole army of infection and then send it to free swimming.
Scientists are tired
They just don't invent new antibiotics. People have already tried all styles in music, all kinds of hairstyles and all skirt lengths. Antibiotics are the same story. Everything that is possible has already been discovered and synthesized. Now it is extremely rare to come up with a new antibacterial drug. And microbes develop resistance to old ones.
Not at all in the subject
Antibiotics may not work because they treat things that cannot be cured with antibiotics. For example, viral pneumonia.
What to do
- Only take antibiotics if you have a stamped prescription.
- Don't force your doctor to write you a prescription.
- Take your antibiotic exactly as directed. If prescribed for 10 days, then take exactly 10.
- Don't share your antibiotics with other people. Don't leave some of your antibiotics in reserve.
- Wash your hands, get vaccinated and do not catch the infection. It is easier to prevent infection than to treat it later.
- Cook meat and other foods properly. They can contain such germs from the farm that they will devour you alive. Better to fry them in the oven beforehand.
