My doctor recently prescribed me antibiotics, which I am paranoid about as I have taken a lot recently. Is taking a lot of antibiotics bad for me personally, like I will be less able to fight infection with antibiotics later on?
Or, is it almost like pollution, where people as a whole are just using too much of it for it to be sustainable?
Other way of saying it I guess: Is 5 people taking 1 unnecessary antibiotic each a year the same as 1 person taking 5 unncessary antibiotics a year?
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I am not a scientist but I did date an infectious disease/population medicine PhD. When it comes to this stuff I kinda AM 5… but I was a good listener.
From what I learned from her, the biggest worry is that when our illnesses/infections are faced with antibiotics so often they can evolve to become resistant. Antibiotic resistance is a threat to the world, not a person.
So I dont know what to say about you pumping your own body full of antibiotics all the time… But the general concern around antibiotics is how they are becoming a less effective weapon as time goes on.
According to her, and her studies, there will come a day where resistant measles, and other things we long thought we’d beaten will become more of a threat than cancer. As in “dont worry, you probably wont live long enough to get cancer!”
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