Yes, with this tips it can be possible for everyone to defeat the issue of AMR but to make that happen, every health care professional must try to spread awareness about the issue & how it can be overcomed & prevented. Also one must stop prescribing excessive usage of Antibiotics apart from the actual requirement. Hence if we stop prescribing and start spreading awareness, we can reverse the issue of AMR.
Very well explained topic. Now a days antibiotics have become OTC drugs, for fewer and cold people prefer antibiotics and they do not complete the course to be taken and if people have viral fewer then also they use antibiotics without knowledge of it. So the AMR has become a challenging topic for scientist to overcome and find novel and more active drugs towards microbes.
AMR ( Antimicrobial Resistance) is becoming alarming day by day. Commonly, people due to cost, time or whitecoat fear are neglecting the routine health checkup from doctors and they take medicines without prescription or advised by family or friends. Additionally even if they take the prescribed medicines, they do not complete the course prescribed or overconsume the medicines and thus develop AMR. Hence, we need to find more innovative compositions of drugs to combat this potential hazard.
Antibiotics revolutionized medicine-VERY TRUE!And their power is now threatened by antimicrobial resistance due to OUR misuse,overuse and ofcourse rapid bacterial evolution.Bacteria,specially the resistant ones have overtime learned to survive our strongest drugs by adapting,sharing resistance genes and outsmarting our treatments in some instances.Combating this issue today,requires collective effort,responsible use,strong infection control,effective stewardship and continued research in measurements for control,because PROTECTING ANTIBIOTICS TODAY IS ESSENTIAL FOR SAVING LIVES TOMORROW.
As the antibiotics are sold as OTC drugs, the bacteria are evolving over the time and becoming anti biotic resistant . People are taking antibiotics for common cold and cough .
Antibiotics should become a prescription only medicine and pharmacists should maintain a record of the sales.
These are some ways by which the over usage of antibiotics can be prevented.
The judicious use of antibiotics coupled along with an active towards finding new ones is the way ahead in controlling the rise of superbugs and antimicrobial resistance.
Antibiotic Awareness is Important among general public , not only by doctors but government should make it a movement and everyone should be aware of it like in case of Polio.
General public in Bharat is having a popular opinion of taking medicines over-the -counter or by themselves taking reference of old prescriptions of same disease or disorder even people exchange medications which is actually harmful and a serious matter to be raised.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a term which is widely used nowadays. Antimicrobial resistance is more common among people across the countries especially in India, because of the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs antibiotics which are sold in the pharmacies. OTC drugs are the medicines which are sold without the doctor’s prescription. When these antibiotics are taken without the consent of a physician or taken wrong dose or missed a dose for the particular period, it leads to AMR. Due to these minor issues, the disease causing micro-organisms resist the effect of antibiotics and can grow rapidly and effectively than before and can cause infections which are difficult to cure. Considering people has the lack of factual knowledge these kind of troubles are happening. So, it is important to give campaigns regarding AMR.
public awareness about antibiotic resistance will not work, using a perfect strategies to make people understand about the concept is necessary, instead of telling them the disadvantages its necessary to make them aware of adverse effects, even giving less quantity of antibiotics by health professionals is nescessary the quantity of medicines in a pack should lower down so that it will be not use for other purpose and prevents overdose
public awareness about antibiotic resistance will not work, using a perfect strategies to make people understand about the concept is necessary, instead of telling them the disadvantages its necessary to make them aware of adverse effects, even giving less quantity of antibiotics by health professionals is nescessary