World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18-24 November every year. The 2021 theme, Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance, calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness champions.
PS: The indiscriminate use of antibiotics is a big problem worldwide. Specially in SriLanka, India etc people take antibiotics like lollies. If the doctor doesn't prescribe an antibiotic they are not happy and go for another doctor.
Antibiotics must be used to treat bacterial disease in the right way. They're not appropriate for treating coughs and colds and other viruses; they're not appropriate to be given to animals to make them grow faster, and it's not appropriate to spray them indiscriminately on plants. These are all things that happen in quite a widespread way. The more we use these drugs, the more resistance develops and they don’t work for any of us anymore. So every time we use them, we should be making sure that there's a real benefit.
Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow.
Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat. In most cases, antibiotic-resistant infections require extended hospital stays, additional follow-up doctor visits, and costly and toxic alternatives - and death.
Antibiotic resistance does not mean the body is becoming resistant to antibiotics; it is that bacteria have become resistant to the antibiotics designed to kill them.
The Germs adapt, so that they develop resistance. For eg there's Penicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Vacomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus - Ciprofloxacin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Fluconazole resistant Candida, Daptomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus etc.
The list goes on and it's a pretty dangerous scenario unless efforts are made to educate people and to control it.
Resistant germs can spread between animals and people through food or contact with animals. For example, Salmonella Heidelberg bacteria can make both cattle and people sick.
Please do not take antibiotics unnecessarily... They are for bacterial infections.... They do not work for common colds which is of viral origin. The doctor will prescribe antibiotics if required for any secondary bacterial infections.
PS: The indiscriminate use of antibiotics is a big problem worldwide. Specially in SriLanka, India etc people take antibiotics like lollies. If the doctor doesn't prescribe an antibiotic they are not happy and go for another doctor.
Antibiotics must be used to treat bacterial disease in the right way. They're not appropriate for treating coughs and colds and other viruses; they're not appropriate to be given to animals to make them grow faster, and it's not appropriate to spray them indiscriminately on plants. These are all things that happen in quite a widespread way. The more we use these drugs, the more resistance develops and they don’t work for any of us anymore. So every time we use them, we should be making sure that there's a real benefit.
Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow.
Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat. In most cases, antibiotic-resistant infections require extended hospital stays, additional follow-up doctor visits, and costly and toxic alternatives - and death.
Antibiotic resistance does not mean the body is becoming resistant to antibiotics; it is that bacteria have become resistant to the antibiotics designed to kill them.
The Germs adapt, so that they develop resistance. For eg there's Penicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Vacomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus - Ciprofloxacin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Fluconazole resistant Candida, Daptomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus etc.
The list goes on and it's a pretty dangerous scenario unless efforts are made to educate people and to control it.
Resistant germs can spread between animals and people through food or contact with animals. For example, Salmonella Heidelberg bacteria can make both cattle and people sick.
Please do not take antibiotics unnecessarily... They are for bacterial infections.... They do not work for common colds which is of viral origin. The doctor will prescribe antibiotics if required for any secondary bacterial infections.
