CDC encourages and supports efforts to minimize
inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans and animals, including FDA's strategy to promote the judicious use of antibiotics that are important in treating humans.
In fact
the inappropriate use of antibiotics may aggravate the condition.
«
Inappropriate use of antibiotics for ARTIs is an important factor contributing to the spread of antibiotic - resistant infections, which is a public health threat,» ACP President Dr. Wayne Riley said in the news release.
The high and sometimes
inappropriate use of antibiotics has accelerated the development of antibiotic resistance, creating a major challenge for the sustainable treatment of infections world - wide.
The researchers concluded, «Appropriate use of rapid and culture - based diagnostic tests can reduce
inappropriate use of antibiotics for sore throats, while avoiding under - treatment of patients who can benefit from antibiotics.»
In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, The World Bank's Development Research Group, and other partners, used standardized patients (also called «simulated or mystery patients») to understand how pharmacies in three Indian cities treated patients presenting with TB symptoms or diagnoses and to determine whether these pharmacies were contributing to
the inappropriate use of antibiotics.
Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often
inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.
Not exact matches
«We also see serious problems in the outside community,» Donskey says, because
of inappropriate antibiotic use.
«Both parents and clinicians have to be trained to avoid overuse and
inappropriate use [
of antibiotics],» Coles said.
«To fully overcome this threat, we need to put a stop to all
inappropriate antibiotic use, meaning we can not ignore the rampant misuse
of antibiotics in livestock,» says Mae Wu
of the Natural Resources Defense Council lobby group in Washington DC.
Numerous studies have shown that
inappropriate and excessive
antibiotic use remains one
of the main causes
of antibiotic resistance and is widely considered a major threat to global health.
Dr. Susan Bleasdale, medical director
of infection control at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, said the study «may be a game changer» for
antibiotic «stewardship» programs aimed at reducing
inappropriate antibiotic use.
Alteration
of brain function may therefore add to the many reasons that
inappropriate antibiotic use should be avoided.
Long - term or
inappropriate antibiotic use can lead to an increased risk
of enteritis by altering the appropriate balance
of bacterial populations in the cecum.
The next most common cause is the
use of inappropriate antibiotics that harm the flora in the rabbit's cecum.