Nov 20, 2015 01:18 PM EST
Doctor Warns about too much Use of Antibiotics

A lot of people now are using antibiotic as an ordinary medicine.

The rapid use of antibiotic can lead to an increasing resistant of bacteria to certain drugs and can be superbugs.

"Superbugs" is a term used to define strains of bacteria that are fully resistant to some of the major antibiotics that are commonly used to kill bacteria.

These bacteria can cause pneumonia, skin infections and Urinary Tract Infections, which are very common and can be easily transmitted to other people.

These drug resistant bacteria can infect more than 2 million people nationwide and can kill more than 23,000 of people, based to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Antibiotic is one of the common drugs recommended by doctors to their patients. It is also given to some livestock animals to prevent and treat some common diseases and promote growth.

Inappropriately, many antibiotics recommended to people are unnecessary. Overuse and misuse of this drug can lead and create to drug-resistant bacteria.

Here's how that might happen. When used properly, antibiotics can help destroy disease-causing bacteria. But if you take an antibiotic when you have a viral infection like the flu, the drug won't affect the viruses making you sick. Instead, it'll destroy a wide variety of bacteria in your body, including some of the "good" bacteria that help you digest food, fight infection, and stay healthy. Bacteria that are tough enough to survive the drug will have a chance to grow and quickly multiply. These drug-resistant strains may even spread to other people, based on one of the Doctors who studied the effects of antibiotics.

He added that, over time, if more and more people take antibiotics when not necessary, drug-resistant bacteria can continue to thrive and spread. They may even share their drug-resistant traits with other bacteria. Drugs may become less effective or not work at all against certain disease-causing bacteria.

While scientists search for ways to beat back these stubborn bacteria, you can help by preventing the spread of germs so we depend less on antibiotics in the first place.

Doctor Muhammad Hakim of Malaysian Doctors cited that too much use of it will possible let the bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus to be resistant to the drug. \

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