How has the application of antibiotics towards viral infections contributed to antibiotic resistance?
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at
2:32 pm
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem in which bacteria responsible for diseases have become impervious to the drugs designed to stop them. How has the application of antibiotics toward viral infections contributed to this problem?
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The way I am understanding is your asking why does our body become immune to some antibiotics, and thus making them stop working. My sons doctor told me it was because if you keep using the same antibiotic over and over again, that the bacteria, can start to resist it because it is used to it being present in the body. For example my 16 month ol son has MRSA, I work in a drug facility, so I am around the jailed population alot, and I guess I brought it home with me, since he is so young he often gets outbreaks, and they need to be treated with IV antibiotics, but the prolem with MRSA is that there are only 3 or 4 antibiotics that work on it, Clindamycin, vancomycin, those are the 2 they usually give my son. I would say he has had about 6 outbreaks since he was 6 months old, and its been very hard because at any time those medications can stop working, thats why his doctor tries alternating the two hoping that his body does not become immune to one of them, because then we woudl run out of options very quickly. I hope this was helpful.
Because the normal bacterial flora is exposed to the antibiotics needlessly thus killing the weaker ones and allowing the stronger ones to survive and reproduce – making more stronger and eventually drug resistant bacteria.