Doctors often find it difficult to decide whether to use antibiotics..patients demand it or buy it over the counter. This results the serious threat of antibiotic resistance. We’re in the middle of an antibiotic crisis that public health experts have been warning about for years. While antibiotics are a miracle of modern medicine, they’re being over used and abused - 30% of prescriptions are unnecessary, and yet doctors continue to prescribe them inappropriately and the agricultural industry relies on them to keep animals plump.
Such overuse is leading to smarter bacteria that are evolving into super bugs that can resist nearly every antibiotic drug available today. To avoid a world of rampant, untreatable bacterial infections, experts say cutting back on unnecessary use of antibiotics is critical. That includes prescribing the drugs only for bacterial infections, against which they…
