Antibiotic Resistance And Drug Shortage Could Be Dangerous For Cancer Patients – Industry News Network

The term antibiotic resistance has been gaining some negative grounds over the past few years. Medicinal experts have revealed that due to the unscrupulous and over usage of drugs, bacteria have mutated and evolved in such a way that it can bypbad the effects of the antibiotics and continue to survive despite repeated administration.

Not following the proper dosage as suggested by doctors have also contributed to the situation. The badociated effect of this situation is that treatment of deadly diseases like cancer and many others can become risky without these properly functioning antibiotics. Not only cancer but also basic procedures like delivering a baby through a cesarean section or doing a hip surgery could become much more dangerous than before if the problems of antibiotic resistance and drug shortage continue to persist.

The reason why this news is more significant for cancer patients is because of the fact that during the chemotherapy treatment of cancer patients, there is an automatic reduction in the immunity of the individual and they are heavily dependent on these antibiotics to protect them from otherwise harmless bacteria. With the development of resistance, the chances of getting secondary diseases along with cancer become all the more probable.

This can be mainly attributed to the fact that more and more people take antibiotics just in case, as a matter of precaution, rather than when actually falling ill, and this has caused the bacteria to evolve in such a way that it can form a protective fortress around it and continue to persist in the bloodstream. Increased dependency on medicines for minor inconveniences like common cold and flu has also contributed to this phenomenon.

The fight against this problem is a combined one by both the health professionals and patients. While doctors should encourage reduced dosage of medicines, patients should rely on their natural immune systems more to fight against minor diseases to prevent medicines to be pushed back to the dark ages. Researchers have announced that the development of resistance and the formation of new drugs are not happening simultaneously and this could prove to be a doom for antibiotics and make common procedures much riskier. So everyone has to stand together and intervene while there is still time.