Essay on Antibiotic Overuse – Risks in Everyday Life

Before antibiotics were discovered, bacterial infections like strep throat and meningitis were untreatable and often deadly. Things that seem easily treatable to us now, like an ear infection, could mean a death sentence to those with weak immune systems, such as the very young or the elderly. Antibiotics were first discovered in the form of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, but its true power wasn’t recognized until the 1940s after more medical testing was conducted. Once the commercialization

Everyday more people are becoming more conscious about food consumption. Characteristics people look for in food range from flavor, nutrition content, or texture. But now people are becoming more concerned of any antibiotic residues that may be present in the meat. Most people honestly have no idea what goes into the process of creating delicious meat that they eat, other than the fact that meat is from animals. Antibiotics are substances that have many capabilities to be able to destroy bacteria

Antibiotics are used by millions of people every day, myself included. Their uses include a wide variety of circumstances like treating common colds or battling infections during surgeries. The versatility of the antibiotic also happens to be its greatest downfall. The overuse and misuse of these medications, as well as a lack of new drug development by the pharmaceutical industry contributes to the rapid growth of antibiotic resistance. The emergence of resistant bacteria occurring worldwide, endangers

effective on killing many common types of bacteria, that it became the most well known antibiotic. Penicillin became popular in every hospital, and was widely used to treat infections. Fleming won a Nobel Prize in medicine, and warned it is “not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them” (Philpott). He knew the dangers with antibiotic resistant microbes, and knew they could be overused. Almost 50 years later, the problem

resolved with the major strides medicine has taken in the past century. In the case of antibiotics, this couldn’t be farther from the truth and its use leaves a nasty prospect for the future. Antibiotics, the type of drug that is capable of killing harmful bacteria, is widely regarded as a simple gift from medical research and is expected to be prescribed for even the mildest of illnesses. However, the use of antibiotics has proved that it comes with a terrible byproduct: leftover bacteria that survives

Professor Sheets 3/2/2016 Improper Antibiotic Use Antibiotics have been the answer to many bacterial infections for the past 70 years (Antibiotic/ Antimicrobial Resistance). Antibiotics are “medicines used to treat infections or diseases caused by bacteria” (“What are Antibiotics?”). Antibiotics were prescribed to cure many diseases. Doctors prescribed many antibiotics during World War II. World War II was the start of the antibiotic era. Just when antibiotics were being greatly produced, bacteria

us to create antibiotics and medication for our arsenal, but we have created super infections as well. Our overuse of antibiotics has led to multi-drug resistant organisms and rendered our weapons useless. In ME Ibrahim’s study in 2012, Multidrug resistant E. coli was identified and traced back from Sudan Hospitals (Ibrahim 2012). Ibrahim’s study found that 92.7 percent of the MDR E. coli was discovered through urine. All strands of E. coli were resistant to common routine antibiotic treatment for

Triclosan. This is an ingredient that reduces or claims to prevent bacterial contamination and is found in most leading antibacterial consumer goods. The general public has fallen victim to believing that this chemical is safe to use in normal everyday application, however, research is starting to prove otherwise. Environmental impacts on land and waterways could also prove to affect the toxicity levels in animals, plants and even the youth of the nation. While Triclosan has been utilized for

Cough, cough, sniff, snort, blow... those are the common sounds that we hear as seasonal allergies take hold of so many individuals every year. Allergic rhinitis (commonly known as hay fever) is categorized as a IgE-mediated immune response (the same response when you have a food allergy) which causes a release of histamine which in turn is responsible for the myriad of symptoms associated with allergic rhinitis, such as sneezing, rhinorrhea (runny nose), nasal congestion, pruritus of the nose (itchy

PRESCRIPTION MEDECINS USE AND ABUSE Krasimir Atanasov English 5 Teacher: June,2014 END NOTES 1. Waters Jo, “Taking antiobiotics ruptures my tendom: The hidden dangers of everyday drugs are assume are harmless”, 7 February 2012. 2. National Drug Intelligence Center (2010). National Threat Assessment: The Economic Impact of Illicit Drug Use on American Society. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice. 3. Bellenir K,” Alcoholism Source book 2000”, p.19,20,21. 4. Gordon