Antibiotic resistance explained | The Royal Society

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[susanne]

A relative has an antibiotic resistant bug and they continue to live with always waiting as long as possible until the symptoms are no longer bearable and then culturing the bug to find the combination of several antibiotics that might work. Taking that combination in high doses with all the side effects. Always having lists of your regime of antibiotics with you so your not given a currently useless one during an emergency. Doctors trying to pause some chains of antibiotics long enough for the resistance to decline somewhat. Always the lookout for beginning sepsis. That type of life with continuous infection just barely controlled is no walk in the park!

Thank you very much!

[biologylover]

In developing country even we not required prescription to get antibiotics. People buying and eating antibiotics like chocolate if they feel, they need it.

[arthurfarrow]

My grandmother worked as a nurse on sepsis wards before the War. She told me that she could still remember the smell!

[WilliamB.D.]

academy should focus on anti-quorum sensing (bacterial communication) agents. they're promising

[AlgoNudger]

Next health crisis?! Seriously?!
After mandatory vaccination?! 🤣