Antibiotic time bomb

They have saved many lives, my daughter’s too. All I am saying is that if we misuse them, they will not be any use to us in the future. Also, we need to think about alternatives.

Apparently there is a new kind of way of treating viruses and bacteria, using a gel you shove up yer konk. It is in development now and will be another way to keep the nasties at bay.

Not smug pronouncements. A realist being real.

the bacteria do build a resistance to antibiotics. The ones that don’t get wiped out get stronger and resist the effects of the antibiotic. They adapt in other words. Clever wee things bacteria.

Different antibiotics use different methods to destroy bacteria. Some prevent them multiplying, some mutate the cell structure etc etc. Any bacteria left behind during the “massacre” will become resistent in the future to that kind of antibiotic. Another kind of antibiotic will then be required to get rid using a different technique.

Whichever way you want to split the hair, it still ends up in twain.

They were already resistent because they had developed a resistence previously, probably due to “broad spectrum” attack.

We are talking a chicken and egg scenario, because it is highly likely that some bacteria would develop resistence without having been in contact with an antibiotic, but how would anyone now know. You would have to go back to pre-antibiotic/penicillin times to find that out.