🧬 Antibiotic Resistance: Are We Creating a Superbug Crisis?

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Antibiotics once revolutionized medicine—but today, their overuse and misuse have opened the door to drug-resistant “superbugs.”

Many people still take antibiotics for:

  • Common colds (which are viral)
  • Without completing full courses
  • Without prescriptions at all

This silent misuse is making once-curable infections harder—or impossible—to treat.

Why it matters:

  • Fewer effective antibiotics = more treatment failures
  • Infections are lasting longer, becoming costlier, and spreading faster
  • Resistance threatens surgeries, cancer treatments, and ICU care

Should antibiotics be restricted even more strictly—even for common colds and sore throats? Or would that limit access unfairly?

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Antibiotic should be used more strictly, especially for common cold and sore throats, to prevent resistance and side effect. They’re only effective against bacterial infections, not viral ones. Use them Judiciously, reserving for cases where truly needed, like bacterial infection or severe symptoms.

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Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. Doctors blindly prescribe it for viral infections like common cold, flu and sore throats which leads to drug resistant “superbugs”.

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Yes, this is a big problem
Many people take antibiotics like they are normal medicines, even for small things like cold, cough, sore throat, which are usually viral, not bacterial.Antibiotics don’t even work on viruses!

If we keep misusing them, one day even simple infections might not have any treatment.

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Ofcourse it should be restricted like they do it in the other countries.

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To avoid antibiotic resistance and weekend immunity :

-Antibiotics and steroidal drugs should be used strictly and only be prescribed when the condition is severe; otherwise, our immune system is pretty much capable of handling mild to moderate illnesses like the common cold.

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Antibiotics are used only in the severe cases because excess usage of antibiotics may lead to ringing sound in the ear or for some people it may lead to hearing loss and in rare cases people may also suffer with seizures.