FAQ: Antibiotics and colds among children

7 facts about the stability of bacterial flora

Antibiotics were discovered almost 80 years ago and has since been a great help mankind to fight bacterial diseases. But they only help against diseases caused by bacteria, which they inhibit. And other bacteria to use them is useless, useless, and especially their use in viral infections.

• 1.Antibiotics are threatening respiratory diseases, where a large part of humanity consumes a huge amount of antibiotics completely in vain. 93% - 95% of all colds are caused by viruses. Thus, cold - viral disease, particularly in children. Here are facing two trends. On the one hand, the creation of new antibiotics that act on bacteria still larger circle. And the massive use of antibiotics for colds, ie, viral diseases. It would seem that antibiotics are not very toxic substance: they cause, of course, side effects, but not much, and not what it is. The fact that by using antibiotics, we accustom microbial effect transfer antibiotic resistance we create bacterial flora which in us.
• 2.In humans, the bacterial cells are much more than human, so anyone who has a parasite, it is very difficult to say. These microbes perform certain useful function. For example, in the nose are found Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, and while they're found, Staphylococcus aureus on the nostrils can not penetrate. You take away the antibiotic Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus and get to where they do not need to get and develop resistance. But pneumococci develop resistance, and Haemophilus influenzae develops resistance to a growing number of antibiotics - and in the end we have a man, stuffed resistant to this antibiotic or different microbes.
• 3.Resistant germs him until a certain time, do not harm, but when the OIG did not get where you want, for example, to the lungs, into the cavity of the middle ear, to fight will be very hard with them. But not only his own. Around him, people walk, they get it as a stable flora. For example, in Russia Streptococcus pneumoniae - the main respiratory pathogen that we do not like, acquired resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics about 10% of cases - it's not much, but every 10 patients with pneumonia we can not get a fast effect of the treatment. And in France, until recently, it was 40% resistant pneumococcus - apparently, there ate spoonfuls of antibiotics. Who resistant pneumococci was lower. Much higher resistance in infants two - four years: 20% -25%. What's the deal here? Just in children, very dense population of pneumococcus, children still do not have antibodies to it, and in that dense populations easier to form a clone resistant microbes. And if you go to kindergarten, there will be a 50% -60% of pneumococci resistant. And if you come to the orphanage in residential institutions - where up to 80% -90% is sustainable. And this is our handmade work. We are doing everything to ensure that antibiotics had no effect. And it's not just a theory, we constantly meet with antibiotic-resistant forms, and now they are observed more and more frequently.
• 4.Among the population, such as macrolides (it erythromycin, azithromycin), stability is not the greatest, 8%, and if we look at the clinic of children who are sick - they have 30%. And we get sick with pneumonia, which was treated early elementary macrolides, and now is not treated. Otitis media, which too had been treated with these drugs, it is not treated, it is necessary to appoint other drugs. What does it mean? This means we have a very high frequency of resistant flora. It would seem, let's let the other antibiotics that act on a stable and flora. Producing, creating new antibiotics, but in recent years began to create new antibiotics is very, very little. We have over 12 years of this century have received two or three new antibiotic is not very safe, deliciously expensive and with the recommendation to use them rarely, as little as possible, including not to create resistance to these drugs. Powerful new drugs used in hospitals, and we now have a huge amount is not pneumococci, and the more "serious" germs: stafilokkov, Klebsiella, Enterococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and others that are resistant to new antibiotics.. This is a very big problem, which starts with an innocent colds.
• 5.You ask. "Well, if not antibiotics, than to treat a cold?". There are very good people's observation that if treat a cold, it lasts for one week, and if not treated, seven days. This observation is very correct. Why do children often suffer from viral infections? Because they do not have antibodies to the virus. Vaccines against these viruses yet, except for influenza, but it secure and protected at 85%, for some reason, people really do not love and fear, although we still have not seen any flu vaccinated child. Do not vaccinated - much as you want and vaccinated does not happen, and if it happens, it is probably so light that we do not see it.
• 6.Viruses - activators of respiratory infections very much. So far they have not been ill child, he will not get the antibodies to these viruses. Therefore, whether we like or do not like a child from zero to school sick at least fifty times with viral infections. And if you count the smallest episodes, we get a hundred times. And nothing happens to children if they are not treated with antibiotics. Complex nasal spray IRS 19- helps recover 2 times faster , nasal spray IRS 19 reduces the risk of acute respiratory infections during epidemics. Buy IRS-19.
  Than to treat viral infection in a child? - First of all, it is necessary to drink enough, with an increase in body temperature it loses water through sweat. If it is sufficiently hydrated, he is not afraid of a viral infection symptoms - cough, runny nose - at all enough water in his body. Second - if the baby rolls over temperature of 39.0 - 39.5, should be given an antipyretic. If less, no need to make, because the temperature helps to combat viruses. Finally, pharmacies sold an infinite number of remedies for flu, cough, from everything. If you like, you can use them, and can not be used, too, nothing of that happens.
• 7.And to the question of why science is stalled with antibiotics - is that few new ideas in the development of antibiotics. Original antibiotics were created from the waste products of various fungal mold growth, new approaches to the development of antibiotics sold slowly. But it is also important to understand why people use antibiotics where it is not necessary? This question belongs to the science of psychology to mass psychology, the development of mass psychosis and habits. I wish that those scientists who are engaged in our consciousness, would find ways to influence this behavior in order to save antibiotics for future generations.