Recently, Mr. Li went to the hospital for treatment. He said that he had been coughing for more than two weeks, and he took antibiotics halfway, but it didn't get better. Only after the doctor took a film examination did he find that Mr. Li's lungs had become a "cotton pattern" and belonged to a mold infection. Upon inquiry, I learned that in the past six months, he went to a small pharmacy to buy antibiotics as soon as he coughed, which took about two weeks at a time. ?
Abuse of antibiotics makes the lungs "like cotton" (picture from the Internet)?
Antibiotics are a double-edged sword. Use well, benefit all beings, use badly, harm all beings. Therefore, treating antibiotics with caution is something that everyone must pay attention to and participate in. To use antibiotics well, we must first understand antibiotics. What do you know about antibiotics? ?
Antibiotics are a "double-edged sword"?
Antibiotic is a magical medicine, which has saved millions of lives and made complicated surgery no longer difficult. In addition, its wide application in animal husbandry, aquaculture and animal epidemic prevention has improved production efficiency, reduced production and processing costs, and played an important role in ensuring food safety. ?
Antibiotics have saved millions of lives (image from the Internet)?
However, due to the abuse and misuse of antibiotics, their drug resistance has become one of the biggest threats to global health. Its influence around the world has risen to a dangerous level, endangering our ability to treat infectious diseases and putting all the people in the world at risk. ?
Abuse of antibiotics is harmful to health (picture from the Internet)?
Antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance has attracted more and more attention. At present, 700,000 people die of antibiotic resistance every year, and by 2050, antibiotic resistance will lead to 6.5438+million deaths every year. If it is left unchecked, it will cause cumulative economic losses of 100 trillion US dollars. China accounts for about half of the global antibiotic consumption, of which 48% is used for human beings and the rest for agriculture. It is predicted that by 2050, antibiotic resistance will lead to premature death of 1 10,000 people in China every year, resulting in a cumulative loss of $20 trillion in China. ?
Antibiotic resistance (picture from the Internet)?
So what is antibiotic resistance? Antibiotic resistance (AMR) is the full name of antimicrobial drug resistance. Specifically, the interaction between bacteria and antibiotics in the human body leads to the increasing drug resistance of some infectious diseases that we think have been eradicated. As time goes on, antibiotic drugs slowly lose their effectiveness.
The spread of antibiotic resistance (picture from the Internet)?
How are drug-resistant bacteria cultivated? For example, we fill Petri dishes with antibiotics, and the concentration of antibiotics gradually increases from outside to inside. When E.coli was placed on both sides of a Petri dish, the bacteria gradually evolved drug resistance variation to resist higher concentrations of antibiotics, and then the bacteria evolved stronger drug resistance. The bacteria in the center of the Petri dish are completely resistant to antibiotics, so the drug-resistant bacteria are cultivated. ?
Drug-resistant bacteria (picture from the Internet)?
It is a natural phenomenon that bacteria develop drug resistance. However, the abuse of antibiotics will aggravate the problem of drug resistance. When the last line of defense of antibiotics is no longer effective, ordinary bacteria are likely to make a comeback, posing a threat to human life! ?
Use antibiotics with caution?
How do we treat antibiotics correctly and cautiously? Be sure to use up the whole course of antibiotics, even if you feel much better. If there are any antibiotics left, please throw them away. Do not share or use the remaining antibiotics with others. Don't buy antibiotics without a doctor's prescription, only use antibiotics prescribed by qualified medical personnel; Don't let the doctor prescribe antibiotics for you; Maintain good hygiene habits. ?