Or is it just the evolution of the bacteria, not dependant on our use of antibiotics? Just curious because I caught a mean UTI a while back that took forever to clear, and there were quite a few antibiotics that the germ (E. coli) was resistant to after the culture was done. I am not a nasty person, and I am married in a faithful relationship.
2006-08-23 07:30:19 · 10 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I can't imagine how you made that connection. It's the overuse of antibiotics that has allowed resistent strains to develop.
First, doctors overprescribe them and patients misuse them, e.g. stop taking them when symptoms disappear rather than finishing the medication. The remaining bacteria are the ones resistent to the medication,,,and they muliply...and voila!
Second, antibiotics are used on a daily basis in factory farms as a preventive. They are in the water that livestock drink, because without them, animals and birds raised in close confinement would be constantly sick. So of course they show up in the meat, milk and eggs we consume. Strains of bacteria will naturally evolve to resist these medications. Staphylococcus and the new strain of TB are examples.
We enjoyed about 50 years of effective antibiotics before our misuse caught up with us... Now we are struggling to control diseases that were easily curable a mere 10 years ago. And we still haven't learned. These practices continue because the almighty dollar rules.
And BTW, I can't quickly think of a better example of evolution in action!
2006-08-23 07:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has more to do with inappropriate use of antibiotics than with "hoes".
Many people request antibiotics for viral illnesses (and stupid doctors comply, to shut them up). Weaker bacteria are killed, and resistant bacteria thrive and flourish. The person's cold goes away with or without antibiotics.
I also think antibacterial hand wipes, sponges, air fresheners, etc. also play a role. Sure, there's a place for them, but people go overboard.
It's good for us to be exposed to small amounts of bacteria, so we can build up a natural resistance.
There's germs out there that are a lot worse than your E. coli... how about antibiotic resistant tuberculosis?
2006-08-23 07:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bacterial organisms be waiting to "cope" to their environment. so as that they advance resistance to antibiotics fairly if the affected person did no longer take the full prescribed direction of the antiomicrobial therapy. there are numerous who self-medicate besides (frequently underdose) , they do no longer take the suited drug dose, length of therapy and suited timing. those are components which deliver approximately antimicrobial resistance of bacterial traces. even with of that, a lot of religious people could declare that GOD is all understanding, so it ability that GOD is acquainted with that Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus, and hard-to-kill Pseudomonas Species could emerge --and God enables it. yet ofcourse, they could deny that God has some thing to do with those bacteria coming up resistance to wide spectrum antibiotics. Or the omniscient and all-powerful writer designed those bacterial organisms to "advance resistance" to antibiotics? The bacteria's coping mechanisms can't be without postpone linked with Evolution, besides the shown fact that it fairly is an illustration that bacterial organisms be waiting to evolve themselves, with the intention to proceed to exist -- they have self conserving mechanisms too. it fairly is greater of sort. yet interior the tip it fairly is nonetheless a bacterium... that more suitable resistance to antibiotics and it did no longer replace into yet another organism. Evolution demands an organism to alter into yet another organism. Ex. fish will become a frog - ape right into a individual. that's no longer the case of the antibiotic resistant bacteria.
2016-11-05 11:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Antibiotics are derived from substances that occur naturally, and some bacteria were already resistant to it when penicillin was discovered.
Antibiotic resistance is promoted by the non-judicios use of antibiotics and not by promisciuos people.
Promisc. people spread stds, if the sti is resistant to antibiotics one might reason that it is their fault...
2006-08-23 07:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution and Natural Selection
2006-08-23 07:32:58 · answer #5 · answered by Carp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the Doctor`s Just treat the symptom and not the cause. and your body Become`s resistant to the medicine that you take. and/or the bacteria become`s resistant to Medicine that you take because of this. and the Medicine that you take will not kill the bacteria. or it will take a long`er time to kill the bacteria.
2006-08-23 08:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by timothy b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Factory Farming is.
Watch the cartoon at the link below. It's a cartoon, but it's very serious business.
2006-08-23 07:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Please do not defame hoes. Also, do not confuse "promiscuous people" with hoes. Hoes are decent, working women. Promiscuous people just like to sleep around without getting paid for it.
2006-08-23 07:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by Meredith L 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it is stupid people like you. The bacteria ate your brain so you can't come up with an intelligent question.
2006-08-23 07:32:23 · answer #9 · answered by GOSHAWK 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO THAT IS NOT IT AT ALL, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT CAREFULL AND IN YOUR CASE YOU MY JUST BE VERY PRON TO INFECTION JUST BE CAREFULL
2006-08-23 07:35:44 · answer #10 · answered by CHer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋