It is a very common practice to take antibiotic for every infection. Do you know ,how much it affect to your health ? Hope you will get the answer of this question after reading this article .
Usually when you take antibiotic for a infection it fight against bacteria and killed it . But it not happen every time .You must know following facts about antibiotics:
1. All infections are not due to bacteria .Most of the Upper respiratory infection like Sore throat , cough, cold etc are caused by Viruses and Antibiotics have no role in Viral infection .
2. Antibiotic when ingested kill your Friendly bacteria present in your gut . It impair your gastric balance and may produce diarrhoea, indigestion etc.
3.When bacterial population exposed to a antibiotic some bacteria died and some start developing resistance to this antibiotic .These bacteria survive, multiply and spread their resistance to other bacterial community . In this way population of resistance bacteria develop and become difficult to treat by same antibiotics next time.
4.Inadequate dosing of antibiotics causes development of drug resistance among bacteria.
5. Every antibiotics having some inherent adverse effect which causes damage to your internal system.
6.Antibiotics are metabolised in body in to liver and excreted from kidney or in gut .In this process it affect your GI and Renal system.
So lastly I would say, dont use antibiotic without Physicians prescription. Use it Judiciously otherwise one day we will again go in to Ancient era where a number of diseases will be present but we will not have a medicine to treat it.The future of antibiotics depend upon all of us.
Thank you.