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May 4th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published a study showing that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) explosion is a big concern to doctors prescribing these drugs because an estimated 30% of outpatient oral antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary.
Researchers took data from national CDC surveys to decipher the propensity of outpatient therapy using antibiotics were attributed to visits to clinics and emergency room visits wherein these drugs were “inappropriately prescribed”.
After looking at 184,000 visits and prescriptions for antibiotics totaling 12% of all scripts, the team discovered that antibiotics were given to patients for everything from the common cold to major illnesses. In addition the wrong antibiotics were commonly prescribed to patients.
This problem results in 47 million “unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions written every year in the United States.” This accounts for half of the antibiotics prescribed for unnecessary aliments such as respiratory infections, including bronchitis, and a viral sore throat.
Moreover, these scripts were written between 2010 and 2011 which was equal to 30% of the prescriptions written in that short amount of time.
Katherine Fleming-Dutra, doctor with the CDC, said: “Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent public health threats of our time. Antibiotics are life-saving medicines that treat bacterial infections, but antibiotic resistance has emerged and the use of antibiotics is the single most important factor leading to resistance.”
This problem effects 2 million Americans and is the cause of 23,000 death annually. With a rise in ARB, allegoric reactions and superbug infections could become the norm.
The cause of this problem is shocking. Fleming-Dutra said: “What comes up a lot in studies is that clinicians generally know when an antibiotic is needed and when it’s not, at least for these common conditions, but often they will report that they’re concerned about patient demand and patient satisfaction. They want the patients to be satisfied so they’ll often prescribe even when they know they shouldn’t.”
David Hyun, co-author of the study and physician with Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT) explained : “It really is going to take the entire healthcare community to tackle and solve the problem. Doctors, patients, professional societies that provide guidance to physicians, health system and plans that provide data and resources to assess antibiotic use, and also federal, state, and local public health agencies. Now that we have these national targets set, we can set benchmarks for how to reduce unnecessary use.”
Apart from the over-prescribing of antibiotics, earlier this year researchers from the Harvard University School of Medicine published a study showing that antibiotics can cause delirium, and other problematic mental states that might necessitate a closer watch from healthcare professionals.
It is commonly known among physicians that antibiotics can cause neurological disorders; however their use is weight against the probability. When considering the aging population, cognitive impairments brought on by medication is usually a risk doctors are willing to take.
In the case of dementia, a mental state that includes hallucinations and agitation, has been suspected to be caused by medication toxicity in 2 to 12 percent of older patients.
Delirium can have serious consequences because it almost always necessitates more involved care, which leads most elderly to be place in a nursing home. There the chances of the patient dying dramatically increase .
The dangerous antibiotics were divided into 3 categories by the researchers:
- Penicillin and cephalosporin caused seizures within days of initial treatment
- Procaine penicillin, sulfonamides, fluoroquinolones and macrolides caused psychosis within days initial treatment
- Metronidazole caused abnormal EEG scans, impaired muscle coordination and other neurological symptoms within weeks of initial treatment
Shamik Bhattacharyya, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, conducted a retrospective review of the study. He commented: “The antibiotics react not only against the bacteria but also have ‘off-target’ effects by interfering with normal signaling within the brain. Different antibiotics affect the brain differently, hence causing varying patterns of toxicity.”
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