A Bug's Life: Exploring the Impact of Antibiotics on Human Life

This report delves into the critical role of antibiotics in human health and the implications of a world without them. It begins with background information on bugs, both good and bad, and the importance of antibiotics in treating various diseases. The main discussion explores three key themes: the distinction between good and bad bugs, the dire consequences of a world devoid of antibiotics, and the issues arising from the overuse of antibiotics. The report highlights how antibiotics are essential for treating infections, supporting surgeries, and preventing life-threatening conditions, while also addressing the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. It emphasizes that a world without antibiotics would be severely impacted, leading to increased mortality rates and the inability to treat many common diseases. The report also discusses the importance of responsible antibiotic use to mitigate the development of resistant strains and ensure these life-saving drugs remain effective for future generations.

A bug's life: How different would a
world be without antibiotics be?

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION................................................................................................1
MAIN DISCUSSION......................................................................................................................2
Theme 1: Good bug and bad bugs...............................................................................................2
Theme 2: World without Antibiotics..........................................................................................3
Theme 3: Overuse of Antibiotics caused infection by bug.........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Bugs are those small insect which are sometimes harmful for humans life. Manlike being
will be completely different without bug because they help to make antibiotics and if bugs are
not presents in the world, then there is no chances to survive due to lack of antibacterial drug. In
Australia, doctors are also reported some recent cases and they called world as a 'Totally drug
Resistance'. Life without antibiotics will lead to world of Devil and people will become
threatening. The present report describe history of bugs and importance of antibiotics in our life.
It further addresses the issues that have led to save or cause harm to humans life. Further, the
report provides major themes with answers that clearly presents importance of antibiotics in
human life.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Background: Bugs are those bacterial insects which cause infections to human being and
sometimes this will lead to some major disease. Human body have variety of natural defences
which helps them to fight against bad microbes or bugs that can cause infection. Such as tears
contain substance which kill microbes and body also comprise variety of antibodies which helps
to protect from minor disease (Fayad and et.al., 2018). Bugs are good as well as bad such that
large variety of insect can cause infections if they are in wrong place for example, bugs present
in fresh pasteurised milk then it will did not cause harm to body as they help to boost up immune
system. On the other side, bad bugs will lead to some major problem such as AIDS while good
mike are used to make antibacterial drugs. Therefore, life of world could not be imagined
without antibiotics and these are made up with varieties of insects or bugs.
Importance: Bugs are quite important for human being because in modern world a lot of
medicines are invented and without them it is not possible to cure minor or major disease.
Antibiotics are quite necessary because they are treated to fight against major diseases. Now
doctors find multidrug resistant superbugs which helps to avoid variety of problems which a
human faces. Sometimes antibiotics are not treated for all problems and taking unnecessary
antibacterial drugs do more harm than good (Strouse, Mangalam and Zhang, 2018). Even World
Health Organization also invest lot of amount to develop new drugs that helps to cure harmful
disease and that's why it is quite necessary to stop spreading infections and finds new super bugs
which may further helps to prevents more deaths.
1

The main importance is that antibiotics are used by researchers and doctors to cure
variety of diseases. Moreover, hand hygiene is the single most important way that helps to
prevent spread of bugs. Therefore, it is to be advised to all humans to keep their hands clean
before touching anything (Langdridge and et.al., 2018). In each part of our body contain varieties
of bacteria and bugs and this is not possible to identify which cause harm to our body so better to
take precautions from any direct and indirect contact of any biological fluid.
Issues: there are variety of issues are created by bugs such that they cause infections to
one-person from another and through coughing they are easily spread which cause damage to
internal system. Bugs generally require moisture, warmth and nutrients and many of them die
because of dry environment. Small spreading disease will sometimes lead to major issues such as
AIDS is most dangerous disease which cause harm to life because of bacteria and bugs. Many
patients will die because of this and many antibacterial drug are not even helps to fight against
many disease (Willyard, 2018).
If antibiotics are not available, then a simple cut could become life threatening. These
drugs are used to fight bacteria as life savings for many major problems such as cancer and heart
disease. If these antibacterial medicine do not work, then it creates a big issues to every human
life such as could lead to death.
MAIN DISCUSSION
Theme 1: Good bug and bad bugs
Not all bugs cause harm to human life such that there are some good bugs also which
helps to cure many diseases such that to convert milk into curd, bacteria are used and if a human
may eat this then it will not cause any harm to their body. These are known as good bugs.
Further, there is a majority of bacteria which flourish on skin, mouths and even in nose also and
these shows a symbiotic relationship with human beings with those bugs (Good bugs, 2018).
Further, these also help to break down the food that a man ingest and also provide variety of
essential nutrients and vitamins which a normal body is not able to make. A sudden disturbance
in natural community of buds also associated with metabolic diseases like obesity and diabetes
while on the other side, even in imbalance in microbes also lead to change in neurological
disorder which basically includes depression.
2

Another important use of good bugs is that they can easily synthesise Vitamin D and little
amount of Vitamin K to make short chain of fatty acid which is a main food source for viscus
cells. Moreover, they also plays an important role in shaping up immune system since from birth.
Among good bugs, Superbugs are used to make antibiotics which further help to protect human
from various diseases (Van Katwyk, Jones and Hoffman, 2018). These bugs makes their biggest
contribution in our diet such that if unhealthy dietary habits which leads to fat and that are
associated with bad bugs and these creates negative outcome for a health.
On the other hand, bad bugs are those who feed up blood and this cause harm to our
immune system and which further lead to bear major disease. As a result there is number of
adverse health effects such as skin rashes, allergic symptoms and some psychological effects.
Humans lives in world of microbial where they have to manage all germs and bugs in their
environment. Such as by washing hands with water does not mean that all bacteria or bugs are
leave but they are still stick in our body and when they intake food then it will creates infectious
diseases which has to be cure at suitable time. Therefore, the effect of bad bacteria upon health
will leads to death. More than 3000 peoples die yearly due to food borne illness that is cause by
bad bacteria.
Hence, it is quite necessary to reduce the amount of risk that are experiencing from
harmful effects of bacteria (Naz and et.al., 2018). While good bugs helps to fight and eliminate
bad ones to start supporting gut health. These bad bugs uses entire proteins as well as fat from a
human body and then produce toxins that are mostly found in red meats. To reduce these impact
upon human life, they must start cleaning hands, surfaces and their cuts. These bad bugs are
mostly spread due to infections and cold- coughing and if do not cure on correct time then it will
lead to death also. Major diseases such as Cholera, typhoid and pneumonia are the most common
diseases which are spread due to these bad bugs and must be control as soon as possible.
Theme 2: World without Antibiotics
Good bugs are mostly found in human body but world without them can't even imagine.
These superbugs are used for making antibiotics and without them life become threatening even
with a single cut. Since from birth to till death, every human being is depends upon these
antibiotic medicines which are given after every interval (Srinivasan and et.al., 2018). When a
child born, doctors inject many antibacterial drugs inside their body in order to make body ready
3

to fight against many disease and even after grew up every person needs a medicinal drugs in
order to prevent themselves. No one can imagine life without antibiotics such that young
children, adolescents, adults and elder people will die if their problems are not cure with proper
time.
Antibiotics that human intake are use to fight bacteria and saves their life from many
dangerous disease such as cancer and heart problems. Many people did not know that a simple
infection could tun with something dangerous or serious problems. For example, if a person have
skin infection then they get a simple treatment and did not care after some time this will convert
some serious problem whose even cure did not help a person to get rid out of that problems.
Another example is Tuberculosis in which at initial stage doctors advised to groom with fresh air
and take proper bed rest but it will not cure exactly and if the stage will convert into higher one
then it creates problems to life and there is a chances that he may die if proper antibiotics are not
provided at proper time (Purnell, 2018).
Now, people thinks that antibiotic are available at cheap rate such that Dayquil is easily
available at store for a cold, many people also take variety of medicine at every stage of problem
which shows that every individual is completely depends upon antibiotic in order to recover fast.
On the other side, if a person get an infection then they take antibiotic in order to feel
comfortable but on the same time they have to take rest properly to eliminate all buds from a
body. Otherwise they again grew and convert this disease into serious one. These shows the
importance of antibiotic in our daily life and if these are not available at proper time then there is
no chances of survival. Moreover, if a world really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance
then humans will lose their life too. These antibiotics are not just only treat with infections but
also have ability to treat cancer or to transplant organs too. If a person operates then even after
that doctors provides them antibacterial drug medicines in order to make their body to fight
against further disease (McAllister and Chalmers, 2015). If these are not provide on proper time
then there is chances of die and loss their life.
Before, the era of antibiotics, every 5 women died out of 100 women who gave birth and
even one out of nine skin infections were killed because they did not get proper treatment.
Antibiotics not only used for human being bit for agricultural purpose too such that it helps to get
rid out from many plant disease and it also makes plant prevent from many diseases. Even
government organizing many programs and collect funds from people to treat for such a
4

dangerous problems. Therefore, it has been clinically proved that antibiotics are used to prevent
life of many people in the terms of clinical purpose. Even there are different approaches are also
used in order to preserve variety of new antibiotics for longer time and to stop the spread of
resistance or to keep drugs available for every needs. Even many farm industry also stop putting
antibiotics in the food of livestock in order to prevent their food items from infection (Browne,
2016). But it has been analysed that these buds are easily communicate with each other an even
also share genes in variety of ways, so one species is resistant and can transfer to another one. In
this way they infect humans and in order to remove or get rid from those, there is a need of
Antibiotic. Without these drugs, no one can survive.
Theme 3: Overuse of Antibiotics caused infection by bug
As it has been proved that buds are both good as well as bad for human and to cure many
diseases antibiotics are used. But over-usage of those can also affect body in adverse way. Such
that in Australia, antibacterial drug made people more assailable because of deformation of these
bugs that caused more than thousands of people death in a year only. These all done due to
overtaking of antibiotics medicines (Ong, Umetsu and Mandl, 2014). If a people take these at
more risk of acquiring then these medications also wipe out good bugs who helps to protect a
healthy person from infections. As a result these good bacteria are also driven out and there is no
one who can fight from diseases and this leads to death. From year last so many years the death
rate of public is also increases due to over usage of medications. These bacteria are also spread
through hands and other equipments that cause human ill and suffer from infectious disease.
Even using many antibiotics when they are not needed is lead to antibiotic resistance and if these
are converted, bugs who contain antibiotic resistance then they are no killed by antibacterial
drugs.
In Australia, large number of patients are seeing who are suffering from infections and
this is consider as a highest rate of one deadly superbug in world as a overuse of medicines. As
per Antimicrobial use and resistance in Australia (AURA) report of 2016, half of general
practitioners written scripts for antibacterial drug for cold and flu even then these illness are due
to viruses who do not respond to antibiotic. These are develop in order to control the use of
antibiotics among people and to save life of others. Even if the bacteria that are resistant, then it
may also affect healthy person too who never taken antibiotics and as a result they are become
5

infectious. In Australia, highly resistant bugs are more responsible for a small proportion of some
dangerous problems and that is occur in every year and as a result people are leads to death, this
is also changing in every year (Antibiotic resistance, 2018). Further, improving infection control
and restrict use of antibiotics in a country will slows down the rate of emergence of antibiotic
resistance. Therefore, over usage of all this drugs will lead to death and to mitigate these,
Australia government takes measures in order to stop over- using these drugs.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above report it has been concluded that bugs plays an important role in
every human. As the study shows that there are some good as well as bad bugs who sometimes
helps human body but also cause harm for them too. There are variety of bugs which are presents
inside our body and they do not cause any harm to life such that bugs which are presents in
stomach are helpful to shape up immune system. While on the other hand, bad bugs can cause
infections and if proper antibiotics are not taken at proper interval then these can be lead to suffer
from some dangerous disease. Report also presents the importance of bugs in human life and also
shows that these are helpful to make antibacterial drugs for human in order to prevent them form
diseases (Strouse, Mangalam and Zhang, 2018). Through bad bugs, people are also suffering
from issues that some times it also lead to various serious problem whose treatment is also not
sure.
Further, it also concluded that without antibiotics, life of world will not be even imagine.
Such that life become threatening even with a simple cut and if these are not cure on proper time
then it will lead to some serious infection and there is a chances of even death also. This shows
that antibiotic are also have their own importance in human life. Moreover, report also shows
that overuse of these antibacterial drug will also cause harm to human life such that in Australia
more than thousands people will die because of over taking. And it has been also concluded that,
as bacteria also spread due to coughing and not looking for proper sanitation then it will lead to
cause infections which must be cure at proper time (Langdridge and et.al., 2018).
For future, there is a need to control the over usage of antibiotic medication because in
Australia many person will die and to prevent even government also takes measure such as by
organizing new commission named as Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA)
who creates awareness among people in order to let them know about what ill effects may be
6

done while taking over-usage of antibacterial drugs and to prevent these following measures can
be uses such as :
 people should not take antibiotic for every respiratory tract infection because sometimes
these infections are not caused only through virus.
 Proper consult with doctors in order to get proper medication (Willyard, 2018).
 Always keep washing hands even after being with someone who are sick and also remind
others too.
 Do not overuse antibiotic medicines because they cause harm to body and if find any
symptoms related to disease, do contact with doctors in order to get rid from those
disease.
7

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Browne, H., 2016. Antibiotics, gut bugs and the young.
Fayad, A. A. and et.al., 2018. From bugs to drugs: Combating antimicrobial resistance by
discovering novel antibiotics. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.12.
Langdridge, D. and et.al., 2018. A visual affective analysis of mass media interventions to
increase antimicrobial stewardship amongst the public. British journal of health
psychology.
McAllister, K. and Chalmers, J. D., 2015. Old Drugs for Bad Bugs—Aerosolized Antibiotics in
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.Critical care medicine.43(3). pp.697-698.
Naz, S. and et.al., 2018. Bad bugs and no drugs: Activity of colistin as waging war against
emerging metallo-β-lactamases producing pathogens. Annals of King Edward Medical
University.24(1).
Ong, M. S., Umetsu, D. T. and Mandl, K. D., 2014. Consequences of antibiotics and infections in
infancy: bugs, drugs, and wheezing. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.112(5).
pp.441-445.
Purnell, B. A., 2018. Gut bugs encourage hematopoietic recovery.Science .360(6387), pp.394-
395.
Srinivasan, B. and et.al., 2018. Chemical space of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase
inhibitors: New approaches for discovering novel drugs for old bugs. Medicinal
research reviews.
Strouse, C., Mangalam, A. and Zhang, J., 2018. Bugs in the system: bringing the human
microbiome to bear in cancer immunotherapy.Gut microbes, pp.1-4.
Van Katwyk, S. R., Jones, S. L. and Hoffman, S. J., 2018. Mapping educational opportunities for
healthcare workers on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship around the
world. Human resources for health .16(1). p.9.
Willyard, C., 2018. When drugs unintentionally affect gut bugs.
Online
Good bugs. 2018. [Online]. Available through: <http://www.nutritionforlife.nz/diet-probiotics/>.
8

Antibiotic resistance. 2018. [Online]. Available
through:<http://www.dobugsneeddrugs.org/guide/antibiotic-resistance/>.
9