Explain Why The Cdc's Statement Is So Ridiculous.

In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.

BACKGROUND – E. coli is a food-borne bacterium that inhabits the bowels of warm blooded creatures such as humans and animals. If the individual is infected by E. coli, some symptoms can be “diarrhea, gas, abdominal cramping, fatigue, fever and vomiting.” (Pietrangelo”) If someone is infected with this bacterium, anti-biotics, which is explained by Oxford Dictionaries as “A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms” can successfully treat the disease if it is outside of the digestive tract.

Ironically, the term "anti" derives from the Greek word "against " and "bios" means "life," against life? To clarify, antibiotics are life savers and have saved millions of lives. Information in a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO), states resistance to antibiotics poses a "major global threat" to public health . The purpose of an antibiotic is to eliminate as many harmful bacteria as possible and they do that job effectively. Bacteria that survive remain more repellent to the same antibiotic the next time they face their enemy. A bold statement from Dr Jennifer Cohn, Medecins sans Frontiers sums it up , " What we urgently need is a solid global plan of action which provides for the rational use of

Antibiotics either stop the bacterial cell from reproducing or kill the cell. They can disrupt the bacteria by deterring

The broad- spectrum antibiotic kills any and all types of bacteria within the body. Since bacteria in the large intestine is being killed, there will be a reduction in vitamin K that is being released inside the body. Since vitamin K is important in the formation of prothrombin, with the reduction of vitamin K it will reduce prothrombin in the blood which makes it harder for the blood to clot. This will result in more of epistaxis (nose bleed).

Antibiotics, composed of microorganisms such as streptomycin and penicillin, kill other infectious microorganisms in the human body. At one point, antibiotics were considered to have “basically wiped out infection in the United States”, but due to their overuse and evolutionary

Antibiotics are inarguably one of the greatest advances in medical science of the past century. Although the first natural antibiotic Penicillin was not discovered until 1928 by Scottish biologist Alexander Flemming, evidence exists that certain plant and mold growths were used to treat infections in ancient Egypt, ancient India, and classical Greece (Forrest, 1982). In our modern world with the advent of synthetic chemistry synthetic antibiotics like Erithromycin and its derivative Azithromycin have been developed. Antibiotics have many uses including the treatment of bacterial and protozoan infection, in surgical operations and prophylactically to prevent the development of an infection. Through these applications, antibiotics have saved countless lives across the world and radically altered the field of medicine. Though a wonderful and potentially lifesaving tool, antibiotic use is not without its disadvantages. Mankind has perhaps been too lax in regulation and too liberal in application of antibiotics and growing antibiotic resistance is the price we must now pay. A recent study showed that perhaps 70% of bacterial infections acquired during hospital visits in the United States are resistant to at least one class of antibiotic (Leeb, 2004). Bacteria are not helpless and their genetic capabilities have allowed them to take advantage of society’s overuse of antibiotics, allowing them to develop

As a healthcare practitioners, husband, and father, I think that the CDC had every right the detain Mr. Speaker, to enforce public health law. In the scenario it stated that Mr. Speaker knew of his deadly illness before he boarded the plane to return back to Atlanta. It was the responsible of Mr. Speaker, to inform the crew of his contagious illness so control measures could have been put in place to minimize expose of his illness to other passenger on the airplane. The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) has guidelines in place for the aircrews members to prevent the spread of germs in the respiratory system such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS] ("Infection control guidelines for cabin crew members on commercial aircraft quarantine

In the article “Poop pills sound gross, but cure serious gut infections” by Newsela, it exclaims how “poop pills” can benefit other infections without the use of antibiotics. Doctors so far have already cured 27 patients with these pills without the use of antibiotics. This could be life changing now and possibly in the future. I say this because many americans die each year from infectious diseases in the gut from louzy antibiotics, these poop pills could change the future of your children or you as a person.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) note that when children participate in the recommended level of physical activity of at least 60 minutes per day multiple health benefits ensue. Nevertheless, since the creation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) increasing focus has been dedicated to bridging the achievement gap among students and less emphasis has been placed on non-academic curriculum such as physical education. Research has shown that approximately 3.8% of elementary schools provide formal physical education with this percentage steadily declining as children continue onto middle and high school. This decrease in physical activity is in line with reports from the CDC which estimate that one third of children in the United States are overweight and, within those cases, the CDC has documented that children who are overweight have higher absentee rates, have poorer health and experience early signs of mental illness all of which have an impact on academic performance.

Antimicrobial resistant has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. Every time a person takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are killed, but resistant ones may be left to grow stronger and multiply. Although antibiotics can help treat bacterial infections, a possible side effect is that they can strengthen certain bacterial strains. Antibiotics are supposed to be used for bacterial infections, but are wrongly being used for both viral and bacterial infections. When we use antibiotics on viral infections, deadly bacteria multiplies and becomes stronger. We can fix this problem by using antibiotics for bacterial infections only.

found that both the drug and the bacteria use enzymes as their defense and attack

While Shapiro et al. was not able to recommend antimicrobial prophylaxis with amoxicillin Nadelman et al. devised

The prolonged use can cause adverse effects and cause antibiotic resistance and create “superbugs” as well as disrupt the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract. The other issue is that an accurate diagnosis needs to be found so that correct treatment can be followed8.

The clinical problem that will be addressed for the purpose of the critical appraisal is the use of probiotics to prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The prevalence of diarrhea related to use antibiotic usage is a commonly acknowledge the adverse effect in patients. Therefore, further understanding into what can prevent such an adverse effect can be of significant benefit.