Side effects of antibiotic overdose
Have you got cough or cold and body ache, do you also get medicine from medical and take it? Have you been doing this for many years? If yes, then don’t do it now. This is because taking antibiotics yourself is posing a serious threat to your health. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also expressed concern about this in the recent Mann Ki Baat programme. The PM has appealed to the people to use antibiotics wisely.
ICMR study also states that without any reason antibiotic The use of is increasing the risk of antibiotic resistance (AMR) in the country. Antibiotics work only in bacterial infections, but people are also taking them in viral fever, flu and cold. In such a situation, it is becoming a serious threat to health.
How taking antibiotics on your own is spoiling your health
Professor Dr. Jugal Kishore, Director, Department of Community Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital It is said that people are taking antibiotics without any need. Due to this, the bacteria present in the body have become habituated to these medicines. In such a situation, bacteria are creating resistance against the medicine. Due to this, medicines are also becoming ineffective in infections. Every year such cases are increasing rapidly. Antibiotics are not having any effect on people and in some cases they are even proving fatal.
Dr. Kishore says that antibiotics are for diseases caused by bacteria. But people are taking them for viral problems. For example, people are taking medicines like Azithromycin for cold and sore throat, but this medicine is for problems caused by bacteria. Cold and cough are viral and it gets cured on its own within three to four days whether or not you take medicine.
Weakness of medical store and logo
Dr. Ajit Kumar in the Department of Medicine at GTB Hospital, Delhi. It is said that antibiotics should not be sold without prescription, but the ground reality is different. People buy these medicines from medical stores and consume them without consulting doctors. There are many people who have been doing this for years. Because of this the medicines are not having any effect. Many common medicines are becoming ineffective and are not effective in mild bacterial infections. Medicines used in the treatment of everything from common urine infections to pneumonia are becoming ineffective.
Why is PM Modi’s warning important?
Dr Kumar says that it is important for the Prime Minister to raise this issue in Mann Ki Baat because the World Health Organization has also declared antibiotic resistance as a silent pandemic. If this situation continues then antibiotics will not work even for common problems in the coming years. Due to this, the disease of the patients will not be cured and even common problems will become fatal. In such a situation, people need to be very cautious.
In which problems should antibiotics be taken?
pneumonia
typhoid
UTI (urinary infection)
TB
(There are antibiotics for these problems, but you have to take them on the advice of your doctor. Only the prescribed dose for the day. Neither less nor more)
What should common people do?
Do not take antibiotics without doctor’s advice
Do do the complete course. Do not overdose or under dose
Do not reuse leftover medicine