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Article on World Without Antibiotics
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Added on 2020-04-07
Article on World Without Antibiotics
Added on 2020-04-07
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A bug’s life: How different would a world without antibiotics be?Introduction A world without antibiotics, a simple scrape or cut could become life threatening, childbirth would be dangerous for both child as well as a mother, tuberculosis could be returned the old way where only a dose of fresh air works. If we are not able to control our antibiotics resistance all this could turn into reality. A world without antibiotics could become a dark place indeed. Around 2,00,000 years ago homo sapiens originated in Africa and antibiotics have been introduced only 70 years before, in between many of multitudes have been killed and our relationwith bacteria has changed. Between 14th and 15th century European population suffered from epidemics of typhus, small pox, and plague which was also termed as the black death (Sansom 2017). The UK also suffered from streptococci, which were the leading cause of maternal mortality in 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, in the year 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte’s 665,000 army men reduced to only 93000 because of the bacterial infection typhus. A century ago in US three major cause of death were identified tuberculosis, pneumonia and gastrointestinal infection.Later in 1942 when there was an invention of antibiotic named penicillin G the bacterial infections became easy to treat it was also known as Golden Era in the history of antibiotics (Sansom 2017).The antibiotics which we use today to fight infections are a life saving drug for diseases like heart attack, cancer. Mostly people have not grown up with the idea that a simple fever could also turn into life threatening disease, now if we have throat pain we take antibiotics, have skin infection we go for topical treatment earlier when we didn’t have antibiotics a simple fever could
turn into heart problems, surgeries could lead to deadly infections (Sansom 2017). Today’s generation is totally dependent on antibiotics for a simple cough and cold they know that taking medicine for a week and they are done or for a disease like high BP they take medicines every week they don’t worry if they miss any dose. This shows how important these medicines have become in our day to day routine no one can imagine a world without antibiotics (Sansom 2017).But unfortunately, the era of antibiotics is almost coming to an end in just a few more generation what we call today the wonder medicines would no longer be effective on the bacteria they were designed to chuck out.What would be the world without antibioticsAntibiotics are such few medicines which are used in the care of the patients individually and effect the community health and also the subsequent generations directly. Presently almost 7000 Australians are dying every year because of the bacteremia or untreatable sepsi (Jacobson 2006). The adolescent, children, adults, and the aged dies as a result of the bacterial pneumonia, poly-microbial infections, wounds, bacteremia and sepsis in huge numbers which resulted the health care to be overloaded with the patients (Jacobson 2006). Private clinic, clinicians and nurses willface issue related to the decisionsin maintain the duty of care, the infected tissue if possible to ablate, or moving the patient towards the analgesic care in segregation for minimizing the risk ofspreading the infection of superbug towards the other patients available in the clinics. Operations which involve the persistent procedure from uncomplicated cannulas and catheters, tohip substitution, to heart surgery results into the death risk as a result of the bacterial infection that are drug-resistant (Jacobson 2006). Intervention like the chemotherapy and organ transplant
which is compromised of immunity required to be carried with the high level bio security facilities.The answer to this question is clearly no, in today’s world to treat infections antibiotics are critical, indeed there are only a few compounds therapeutic which are able to modulate inflammatory burst at the time of severe sepsis. Although anti toxin therapy could represent components of antibiotics in future it is too early to rely on this solution (Llor 2015). 65 years ago a lady died during her operation of removing the appendix, but it was not the surgery due to which she died it was the serious infection which had no cure without antibiotics. Welcome to the future which is showing that era of antibiotics is coming to an end. Doctors and scientists have discovered a gene called NDM-1 and as per them, there are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have resistance against NDM- A bleak window, maybe 10 years what we have to use antibiotics very wisely and to accept the reality that afterwards we do not have anything to treat the infections (Llor 2015)Without antibiotics lot of modern medicines would come to an end. Organ transplants would become impossible to do as antibiotics play a major role in the surgery while planting a new organ in the body there are high chances the patient is affected by infections. These medicines are vital for abdominal surgeries where the patient is safeguarded with the bacteria leaking in the body. And if we lose our ability to treat these infections many people would die due to peritonitis(Llor 2015). Minor surgeries would also become risky and life threatening, a lot more people will die of things which are currently of no importance, a stab cut by rose bush and you are dead within a week, cold which is peanuts now days without antibiotics people will die within a month due to pneumonia. Surgeries would be last option left, people will avoid cosmetic surgeries, no elective surgeries, and people can take the risk of appendices but will not go for
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