Are we creating antibiotic-resistant supergerms with all the antibacterial products we now use?

Question

Almost everything from soaps to dishsoap is antibacterial. I know it's good to use. Are we using too much of them now? Will our current antibiotics & antibacterial products still work in 10 years? 20 years? 50 years?

Answer 1

yes, I think we are. The amount of antibacterial products we use should be limited. In fact were you aware that there are antibiotics in the meat we eat. Some farmers mix antibiotics in with the animals food to prevent them getting sick, inturn we get some of those same antibiotics when eating meat and the problem of resistant bacteria continues...

Answer 2

FWIW, most of the hand sanitizers i'm conscious of have alcohol in some variety because of the fact the main lively element, and none contain antibiotics. The alcohol works as a disinfectant yet isn't antibiotic interior the comparable sense that drugs like penicillin does. So hand sanitizers do no longer and could't bring about antibiotic immunity. What can, and what we rightly ought to difficulty approximately, are all the antibiotics that are prescribed on each occasion anybody gets the sniffles, and the tens of millions of kilos of antibiotics that are utilized with the help of the livestock feeding and hen industries to counteract the circumstances wherein feeder animals at the instant are being raised. the two one in each of those subject concerns must be addressed, because of the fact there at the instant are many antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogenic micro organism.

Answer 3

The older antibiotics work just as well as they ever did. The "germ-resistant" newer antibiotics are a scam to get doctors to prescribe more expensive drugs so the Big Pharmaceutical Industry can make more money. When your doctor prescribes an antibiotic tell him that you want an affordable one. They work just as well and cost tons less.

As far as MRSA is concerned it involves semi-synthetic antibiotics which were revealed as ineffective for gram-negative bacteria as early as 1963. Since they were never effective against those bacteria which have been around since before 1949 how can anyone say that the antibiotic became ineffective. It was never effective.

There are currently cases of antibiotic resistant strains of tuberculosis. Such things occur
when infections are treated with antibiotics but not long enough to kill the entire infection. Many of these cases have arisin in prisons (particularly in Russia) because the the prisoners are treated untill symptoms subside and then taken off of treatment, or often they are released before the treatment is complete and the exconvicts cannot afford to continue the treatment.

Answer 4

Yes, we unfortunately are.
(Sad, but "Taurus" does not have the first CLUE what she's talking about - "the old antibiotics work as well as ever". Tell that to someone who has multiply resistant MRSA. Do you know what it stands for?? TB also is getting harder and harder to treat - virtually none of the old drugs work any longer.)

Thank "heavens" for useless alternative and complementary "therapies", which have no effect on bacteria whatsoever!

Answer 5

yes, we are. most medicines dont work anymore, and stronger doeses have to be taken or new varities made. ppl will still make anitibiotics though because they help people even if they have to take multiple doses. i doubt antibiotics will work in the future, since we are creating antibiotic resistant strains

Answer 6

They say that we are using to many ofthese type of products and that through repeated expose to them the g rems will become resistant to them and they will no longer kill the bacteria.

Answer 7

Yes, that's quite true. Thank heavens for alternative and complimentary therapies!

Answer 8

yes, hillary clinton has supercrabs that are immuned to all anibiotics. the good news; noone is disgusting enough to sleep with her.

Answer 9

Yes. We should stop this germ fetish now.

Answer 10

Yes it's already happening (MRSA).