Resistência bacteriana: uso indiscriminado de Antiobióticos

Abstract

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the importance of the correct use of antibiotics, showing that through their improper use it can cause serious damage to the health. Antibiotics are one of the great advances of modern medicine, helping to fight many of the leading causes of death .Since the introduction of penicillin, until today, antibiotics have been misused . Through their abusive or incorrect use ends up causing serious damage to the health of the individual. Thus their use makes up the most common form of treatment in medical practice, representing a high cost for health care. Antibiotic resistance establishes a serious problem in healthcare today. Thus, with regard to the problem of resistance becomes more serious when the use of antibiotics are considered conditions for which present no effective, as the common cold, or when they are widely used in the prophylaxis and not in the treatment of concrete situations.