ABUSE OF ANTI-BIOTICS ABASE INDIAThe recent claim that NDM -1 (New Delhi Metallo beta lactamase), the anti-biotic resistant superbug, has originated in India has left the Union Health Ministry fuming.And as we go through the newspapers and other media it seems that the Govt .is worrying about India’s booming medical tourism. What ought to be really worried about is the Country’s high rate of HAI (Hospital Acquired Infections) and the abundant abuse of antibiotics.India , Our Sweet Country, stands strong and first among the abuse and overuse of antibiotics. Of course, other countries like Taiwan, Nigeria, etc. too are in the line....but after all We have to grieve about Our Country first as it is the home town of Great Aacharyas and is the mother state of the Great Science AYURVEDA(The LIFE SCIENCE) AND now here life itself is at trouble due to science. There is no regulatory mechanism to check the abuse.Over-usage of antibiotics and some of these which don’t have the dosage it claims (under dose) will automatically give rise to drug resistant organisms and thus arouse the SUPER-BUG. They have learnt the concept of “Survival of the Fittest’ and are at least fit enough to fight against the present antibiotics.In a single hospital there were 22 cases from whom superbugs were isolated. Note this is the case in a single hospital all over the country.Most of these bugs spread through contaminated hands, air-conditioners, contaminated surfaces and devices used on patients. Those who are on multiple antibiotics or the elderly are largely vulnerable. Superbugs have been around for decades all over the world. There is no record on how many lives are lost due to this. But the recent name given is NDM which has drawn flak from the Government.
Just three days back when one of a neighbour came to me for getting a pain killer administered parenterally, I saw his prescription. He is a patient of Renal calculus (left renal calculus-single ---as per the reports) who had a classical symptom of calculi pain and no other symptoms of infection or even nausea or vomiting. The prescription carried both Ofloxacin 400mg and Cefuroxime 500mg,a fluoroquinolone and a second generation cephalosporin respectively and Inj.Hydroxyprogesterone IM stat along with two pain killers. The Physician is a reputed Nephrologist and the hospital is definitely not a petty one. Is not one antibiotic-- sufficient in his line of prophylaxis/treatment? First day the patient came with Diclofenac injection for his pain and the second day he bought Inj.Hydroxyprogesterone for getting administered saying he got relieved with that. It was embarrassing to make him understand and was a different story .If any erudite Physician can back the medicines used in this case, kindly throw light for which I am obliged.The worst of the tale is with the children and the worser are with the infants for whom the antibiotics are prescribed under the name of anti-flu or antitussives , where virus may be the cause in most of the cases. Even educated and well-to-do mothers administer the same medicines whenever their kids exhibit one or the other symptom till the adolescence?????Presently in the case of NDM, a combination of antibiotics are used for treating and again the cycle starts while teams are working on a new class of antibiotics which may take years to deliver.The article definitely doesn’t imply abandoning of antibiotics but a check for the abuse.An uniform antibiotic policy is the need of the hour for the Allopaths.What should be our part to save Our Country err..... the world from them.KINDLY HELP
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