To know how horrible the antibiotic scenario is, go back to the past

You have a sore throat, you immediately find antibiotics to drink. So do you imagine the scene without antibiotics to cure sore throat or any other disease? That scene is worse than you think.

A dark future filled with pimples and tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases will kill you and rare diseases will appear again.

A report shows that infections are gradually resistant to all antibiotics that we still use. Research also shows that 10 million people will die each year, from now until 2050, if the antibiotic resistance continues. So the death rate will be 1 person die every 3 seconds.

The more antibiotics we use, the faster the bacteria will evolve to adapt and resist these antibiotics. And so, these evolutionary bacteria will continue to spread the disease, besides, they will "teach" other bacteria to the defense against antibiotics.

Therefore, doctors were told not to give antibiotics indiscriminately. Since mid-2014, more than one million people have died from such antibiotic-resistant viruses.

So before, how was human life without antibiotics?

A man with syphilis, when there is no antibiotic treatment.

Today, sexually transmitted diseases can be solved simply by a trip to the clinic and an antibiotic prescription. But in the past, things were not so simple. Such diseases have no cure and often result in death.

Cure TB with the most standard method: it is breathing air.

TB is spread by coughing or sneezing by an infected person, spreading bacteria into the air. This bizarre tuberculosis has spread very strongly in the United Kingdom.

Mostly tuberculosis will attack the patient's lungs but it can also leave sequelae on many other parts, including glands (endocrine, thyroid, .), bones and even the nervous system. sutra.

Thanks to antibiotics, tuberculosis is no longer active at the present time.

Breathing air - How to cure tuberculosis in London in 1936.

In that " chaotic" time, a cut of paper can also be lethal, any open wound can be infected, and even surgery that seems to save a patient can be causing patients to die from infections.

In a future that seems to be as dangerous as the past without antibiotics, any action that promotes our immune system will be very dangerous. Examples include radiation treatment for cancer or the injection of antibiotics into the immune system every time transplant operations are performed.

Infection after surgery is a threat in 1921.

Childbirth is also extremely dangerous, before antibiotics are born.

It is not uncommon for mothers and newborns to die, until the 1930s, when antibiotics were born. Today, the risk of women dying during childbirth has been reduced by 40 to 50 times compared to 60 years ago.

Having a baby in the 1921s is a big risk.

The absence of antibiotics is extremely dangerous, so is there any way to save it?

Yes of course. Pharmaceutical companies are constantly trying to produce new antibiotics. Although it was not so easy, from the 1980s until now, no new antibiotic has been developed.

But there seems to be a bit of hope in the new antibacterial drug . Scientists are creating an antibacterial organic compound, some even made from insects!

And there are also glimmer of hope from nanotechnology , microscopic machines will penetrate our body and proceed to remove bacteria.

Injecting antibacterial TB antibiotic in the 1950s.

Besides the efforts of doctors, breeding farmers also contributed to the fight against this antibiotic. Europe has banned the use of antibiotics by livestock and poultry to stimulate growth . Even so, the use of antibiotics in livestock still occurs globally, which is one of the reasons why antibiotic-resistant bacteria have appeared in China.

Doctors are under tremendous pressure when not distributing antibiotics in large quantities to patients, which every doctor still does " like " before. Antibiotics are used even for viral infections, which are caused by viruses that cannot be cured by antibiotics.

Each of us can make a difference, when the doctor recommends that you use the right dose of antibiotics on the required number of days, follow what the doctor tells you. Do not stop as soon as you feel better, which will help prevent bacteria from developing resistance to the drug.

And if you don't want those types of bacteria to attack you, be more strict with yourself about personal hygiene. Start with the smallest action of washing your hands before eating.