Blog #12 drug resistance increasing

Along with the increase in antibiotic use is the increase in the resistance of these antibiotics to the infections. In fact, it is that very reason that antibiotics are no longer working. People are using them either too much, for the wrong reasons, or both. In England, health care officials have now even came out with a guide for nurses showing them how to slow down the use and prescriptions they write off for patients.

Now, not only are antibiotics beginning not to work, but there are new diseases arising that don't have a cure or are causing these infections. Mark Sprenger, Director of the European CDFC, says "The need for concerted actions to curb growing resistance to antibiotics is now critical with the most recent listed antibiotic that has failed."

The use for antibiotics should now be looked at the same as our natural resources. It is important to reduce, reuse, and recycle with natural resources, however, with antibiotics, it is only important to reduce! A lot of the problems with antibiotics no longer working comes from us storing unused and leftover antibiotics. There is no need for that, what infection that antibiotic worked for may not work for the next. It may only cause resistance to that antibiotic to go up. Certain things like the common cold, sniffles, and runny nose can go away with some over the counter medicine or...just with a few days.