Half of the antibiotics already useless

Up to half of all antibiotics prescribed by doctors to combat the spread of infection, they are useless as the researchers from the University of Cardiff. This is due to the growth of so-called "superbugs" - resistant to medications pathogens.

Treatment with antibiotics

Humanity is rapidly It is approaching the point at which pneumonia, tuberculosis, and septicemia again become deadly infections. Uncontrolled antibiotic treatment That people receiving from any chepuhovoy colds, has meant that the bacteria It has developed resistance to this type of drugs. According to the study, Today nearly 50% of all such drugs completely useless.

The study authors followed the 11 million courses of antibiotics, which discharged patients in the UK the last 22 years to treat a wide range of diseases, including tonsillitis, pneumonia and ear infections. Average, antibiotic treatment   It proved ineffective in every sixth case, but in some cases these medicines did not help more than half diseases.

According to experts, resistance to antibiotics is one of the major threats It faced a modern health care system. Despite this, GPs practices continue to prescribe these drugs virtually unlimited amount. Some doctors admitted that they do so "in order to get rid of the patients. "

Only careful control discharge and use of antibiotics, as well as their sale exclusively recipe can, according to the study authors, to stop the slide humanity back in the era of powerlessness bacterial infections, which He reigned until 1942, when the use of penicillin. (READ CONT)

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