WHO warns: antibiotic-resistant bacteria seriously threatens the health of mankind |
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The use of antibiotics is not healthy and can lead to catastrophic consequences - and now this fact is confirmed by the WHO - World Health Organization.
In its latest report it states that antibiotics represent "a major global threat" to public health.
Based on an analysis of data from 114 countries it has been established that bacteria resistance to antibiotics is developing throughout the world.
This may adversely affect the future of all humanity.
WHO calls for urgent action.
It has been shown that infections that could be treated with antibiotics during previous years, now dangerously threaten the health and lives of people due to the development of bacteria resistance to antibiotics.
According to their theory, a large number of infectious diseases in the future could cause a global catastrophe if this problem is not approached "extremely seriously and responsibly."
This is not a theory but a reality in all parts of the world. Everyone, regardless of age and country could be affected - warns WHO.
The most powerful antibiotics losing the battle against bacteria
Worrying results have been obtained in a survey conducted on seven types of bacteria – causative agents of pneumonia, diarrhea and blood infections.
It has been shown that many antibiotics, the key to combating these diseases, have become virtually worthless and have no effect on half of all patients.
One such antibiotic is Carbapenem, which is often used for treatment of blood infections, urinary tract infections and pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae.
This is one of the most powerful antibiotics, which is often used as a last resort in cases of severe illness, but now it has become ineffective and useless in 50% of patients.
Marc Sprenger, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), has expressed his concern about the resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria to antibiotics has doubled in the region.
Five years ago, the resistance was around 7%, while in the past three years it has increased to about 15%.
Additional concern is raised by the fact that in some European countries the resistance reaches as high as 50%.
In an interview with Reuters, Sprenger used the following words to describe the seriousness of the problem:
If we do not do it, we will face a large number of infections and many vulnerable patients will become seriously ill, and we do not have appropriate antibiotics for their treatment.
Antibiotics are useless in even 50% of E. coli infections
Particularly alarming is the ineffectiveness of antibiotics against dangerous bacteria Escherichia coli, whose resistance was also found in about half of patients.
This bacterium causes bladder infection, usually in women. It can also cause meningitis in newborns and wound infections.
Experts warn that there is a high probability that antibiotics in the future will not have any effect on this bacterium.
According to WHO's research, the same type of antibiotic that was successful in the fight against this notorious bacterium during the 80’s of the last century is totally ineffective today.
Ineffectiveness of antibiotics in the treatment of gonorrhea
World Health Organization confirms that antibiotic therapy has become useless in the treatment of gonorrhea – a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Ineffectiveness of antibiotics against this disease was first observed in the UK when the therapy failed to stop the infection.
Soon it was found that the same treatment was also ineffective in Austria, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Canada, France, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden.
The consequence of the ineffectiveness of antibiotics on this bacterium is an uncontrolled spread of this disease, which infects more than a million people around the world every day.
Natural antibacterial plants offer solution
A large number of plants that have strong antibacterial properties hide in the shadow of medicinal antibiotics and marketing campaigns of modern medicine.
Herbs like oregano, garlic, tea and many others contain complex antibacterial agents and may be powerful allies in fighting bacterial infections.
Nature is the answer to the problem of excessive consumption of medicinal products, because some quite modest and neglected plants have the ability to cure even the strongest infection.
Numerous studies have shown that garlic effectively destroys the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.
The main ingredient in garlic is allicin, which has wonderful antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties.
Wild oregano oil is effective against as much as 25 strains of bacteria and fungi, and effectively combats bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Compounds found in cranberry effectively eliminate bacteria E. coli.
Antibacterial efficacy of honey and other bee products has also been proven and they are successful in combating resistant strains of bacteria, including MRSA.
We especially recommend manuka honey, which in recent years has been successfully used worldwide for treating infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Medical facilities worldwide could save millions of lives by using preparations made of plant extracts.
The use of herbal remedies is also the best way to prevent the formation of bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Croatia also faces the same problem
Even here the situation is equally worrisome, as proved by the fact that as much as 100,000 antibiotics are used in Croatia daily.
As many as 90% of them are used outside the hospital, and according to the ESAC project, our country is placed eighth out of 25 European countries in regard to outpatient antibiotic consumption.
Dr. Arjana Tambić Andrašević, president of the Committee for monitoring antibiotic resistance, stressed that Croatia, like most southern European countries, was a major consumer of antibiotics.
She also confirmed that antibiotics were often used unnecessarily.
For example, 75% of them are used against viral infections, although it is well-known that antibiotics have an effect on bacteria, but not on viruses.
She supports the opinion of many experts that such inappropriate use of antibiotics is a very fertile ground for the development of mutant bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
She also noted that as many as 25,000 patients with various infections die in Europe every year because of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
What to do
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a result of uncontrolled and excessive, and in many situations unnecessary, use of antibiotics.
Therefore, we are all responsible. Doctors prescribe antibiotics with no control, and patients insist on them and consume them in banal and unwarranted situations, often using them just for prevention.
It is necessary to minimize the use of antibiotics and turn to nature, which offers simple and healthy solutions for many problems.
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