Three mistakes in taking antibiotics: why they stop working

Why you can't drink antibiotics without a prescription, explains a 23-year-old doctor

Like you, I now have many friends and relatives who have colds. Despite the fact that I am actively conducting educational activities among them, from time to time they "please" me with bright statements.

So, for example, two days ago one girl, feeling that her throat hurts, immediately decided to take antibiotics. Why!!! I have already erased the keyboard to write about the correct handling of this group of drugs, and those close to me could remember this ...

At first, if your throat hurts, then it may be a viral infection, and antibiotics cannot cure it.

And secondly, antibiotics are too important for us to use without proper justification. We simply spoil this weapon so that it cannot shoot.

Watch the video. Four years ago, scientists at Harvard University very clearly demonstrated how you can create a superbug that is immune to certain antibiotics.

They took a large trough of broth and divided it into sections. Section 0 contained only a nutrient medium, and section 1 contained a single dose of an antibiotic capable of killing the bacillus. In the center section, a thousandfold dose. And they launched E. coli into zone zero.

E. coli colonized the first antibiotic zone in 44 hours. And in 284 hours I had already adapted and felt great at 1000 times the concentration of the antibiotic.

That is, in just 11 days, scientists brought out a super-resistant E. coli, and did not apply any super-efforts for this. They just gave me antibiotics.

The main problem with antibiotics is that in the population of bacteria, there is bound to be a certain number of organisms with resistance. Further, it is just a matter of technology: the antibiotic kills bacteria sensitive to it, and not very sensitive bacteria multiply and occupy a given niche. By increasing concentration, we stimulate natural selection: the more advanced ones remain, the weak ones die, freeing up the food base. Thus, directly according to Darwin, the strongest survives in the proposed conditions.

Unfortunately, all antibiotics are doomed to be ineffective. The bacteria adapt to them.

But we are insanely accelerating this process, unable to withstand three rules, which Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, spoke about in 1945:

1. We use antibiotics without a diagnosis (I will explain: even when their use is pointless, after eating an antibiotic pill, we still start the process of selecting resistant bacteria).
2. We do not use them in sufficient doses. (that is, we do not kill everyone as much as possible, but only "train" bacteria for drug resistance).
3. We've been using them for too little time (cm. explanation to point 2).

To be continued.

Your Doctor Pavlova

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