Sick Has Gone Super

E j SICK HAS GONE SUPER IN 2000, BIOLOGICAL INVADERS BEGAN TO EMERGE THAT WERE RESISTANT, OR EVEN IMMUNE, TO TYPICAL TREATMENT. These bacteria and viruses had adapted and grown immune to most antibiotics, mutating into what have now been dubbed "superbugs." According to the CDC, every year, at least 2 million people in the United States develop serious bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotics. These antibiotic-resistant bugs kill at least 23,000 people in the US every year. HISTO RY IN THE 1930'S, SULFA DRUGS WERE INTRODUCED, FOLLOWED BEFORE AFTER ΑΝTΙΒΙOΤΓICS ANTIBIOTICS WERE THE THREAT OF INFECTION INTROD UCED WAS SERIOUS AND URGENT BY PENICILLIN DOCTORS BEGAN TO UNTIL 1936, PNEUMONIA WAS THE #1 CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE US THESE TREATMENTS WERE A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN PRESCRIBE THEM MEDICINE, SULFA FOR SORE THROATS, SINUS CONGESTION, DRUGS INFECTIONS CURABLE SOMETIMES, AMPUTATION WAS THE ONLY CURE FOR INFECTIONS AND COUGHS THESE THINGS ARE NOT CAUSED IN THE 1980'S, BY BACTERIA, THEREFORE ANTIBIOTICS HAD NO EFFECT DRUGS CALLED CARBAPENEMS THE BACTERIA THAT LIVES IN BODIES NATURALLY BEGAN TO WERE DEVELOPED TO FIGHT GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS DEVELOP RESISTANCE TO THE (Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter) COMMON ANTIBIOTICS THAT ORIGINALLY THOUGHT TO ME A DRUG OF LAST RESORT BECAUSE OF THEIR WIDESPREAD EFFECTS, THEY WERE BEING PRESCRIBED EVENTUALLY BECAME COMMONLY, LEADING TO A DECLINE IN THEIR EFFECTIVENESS THE FIRST SIGNS A TEAM AT NYU'S TISCH H OSPITAL WAS CONFRONTED WITH THE TISCH HOSPITAL KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE BACTERIUM FROM AN INTENSIVE-CARE PATIENT. IT INHABITS HUMANS AND ANIMALS. IT CAN SURVIVE IN WATER AND ON INANIMATE OBJECTS. WE CARRY IT ON OUR SKIN, IN OUR NOSES, IN OUR THROATS, AND IN OUR STOOL. MOST PEOPLE DO GET SICK FROM KLEBSIELLA. THE BACTERIUM CAN AFFECT THE LUNGS, THE KIDNEYS AND BLOOD VESSELS. THE NYU DOCTORS REALIZED THAT THE BACTERIUM WAS RESISTING ALL MEANINGFUL ANTIBIOTICS. SUPER GONORRHEA IN SEPTEMBER 2013, ANTIBI OTIC-RESISTANT GONORRHEA WAS NAMED AN URGENT HEALTH CRISIS IN THE US. GONORRHEA IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE RESISTANT TO FORMERLY SUCCESSFUL TREATMENTS - TETRACYCLINE, CEFIXIME, CEFTRIAXONE AND AZITHROMYCIN. GONORRHEA IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT IS EASILY TRANSMITTED AND CAN PRESENT WITH NO SYMPTOMS. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 300,000 REPORTED CASES IN THE US. THE CDC ESTIMATES THAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF CASES IS AROUND 820,000. UNTREATED, GONORRHEA CAN CAUSE PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE, ECTOPIC PREGNANCY, SEVERE EYE INFECTIONS IN BABIES, INFERTILITY AND STILLBIRTH. MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus MRSA IS A STAPH BACTERIA THAT CAUSES AN INFECTION SO AGGRESSIVE THAT IT CAN KILL IΤΉIN DAYS. THE FIRST CASES OF MRSA IN PATIENTS THAT WERE NOT ALREADY SICK WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. MRSA BEGAN SUDDENLY CAUSING PNEUMONIA AND SERIOUS BONE AND SKIN INFECTIONS. CHILDREN BEGAN DYING BECAUSE OF A LACK OF EFFECTIVE ANTIBIOTICS. DOCTORS BEGAN USING VANCOMYCIN, A DRUG RESERVED AS A LAST RESORT, TO TREAT MRSA. TODAY, THE USE OF VANCOMYCIN HAS INCREASED DRASTICALLY. THERE HAVE BEEN CASES OF VRSA Vancomycin-Resistant IF THIS STRAIN SPREADS, IT WOULD LEAD TO A Staphylococcus Aureus MAJOR MEDICAL CRISIS. SUPER BUGS IN OUR FUTURE? WE CAN'T STOP THE US GOVERNMENT THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY IS LOBBYING CONGRESS BACTERIA FROM ADAPTING TO ANTIBIOTICS. HAS STARTED A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, RECOMMENDING LOWERING AMERICA'S USE OF CUTTING DOWN ON THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS COULD HELP US GREATLY. TO PASS THE 130 MILLION ANTIBIOTIC STRATEGIES TO PRESCRIPTIONS ARE GIVEN ANTIBIOTICS. ADDRESS OUT EACH YEAR. ADVISING PEDIATRICIANS AND PARENTS HALF OF THESE ARE GIVEN TO FOREGO ANTIBIOTICS FOR MOST ANTIMICROBIAL TO TREAT ILLNESSES CHILDHOOD EAR INFECTIONS, WHICH CAN RESISTANCE ACT. THAT THE DRUGS HAVE NO EFFECT ON. GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN. THIS WOULD EARMARK FUNDING FOR RESEARCH ON DANGEROUS MICROBES. DOCTORS ARE PROPOSING IDSA STUDIES TO DETERMINE THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS Infectious Diseases Society of America FOR COMMON INFECTIONS TRUST YOUR IMMUN E SYST EM YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS YOUR BODY'S NATUR AL DEF ENSE AGAINST ANYTHING FROM THE COMMON COLD TO CANCER WHEN FACED WITH AN INVADER, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM PRODUCES WHITE BLOOD CELLS, ALONG WITH OTHER CHEMICALS AND PROTEINS, TO FIGHT OFF THE ATTACK. EXPOSURE TO DIFFERENT VIRUSES AND BACTERIA HELP THE BODY LEARN TO FIGHT THEM. A VACCINATION GIVES AN ALTERED VERSION OF A VIRUS TO THE BODY IN ORDER TO CREATE ANTIBODIES TO FIGHT OFF FUTURE INVASIONS. THROUGH BREASTFEEDING, A MOTHER PASSES ON HER ANTIBODIES TO HER CHILD. BREAST-FED CHILDREN ARE LESS LIKELY TO FALL ILL FROM DISEASE OR INFECTION IN EARLY LIFE THAN THOSE WHO ARE FORMULA-FED. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RECOGNIZES MILLIONS OF DIFFERENT ANTIGENS AND CAN FIGHT OFF ALMOST ALL OF THEM. WHEN PEOPL E TAKE ANTIBIOTICS, THEIR BODIES NO LONGER HAVE TO PRODUCE ANTIBODIES, MAKING THEM MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO GETTING SICK AGAIN LATER. ΤΟ ΚΕΕΡ YOUR IMMΨNE SYST ΕΜ HEALTHY MAKE SUR E TO: STSS GET ENOUGH SLEEP EXERCISE EAT HEALTHY DON'T LET STRESS GET YOU DOWN PRESENTED BY: Sources: DEL-IMMUNE V® nrdc.org/breastmilk/benefits.asp cbsnews.com/news/super-resistant-superbugs rodalenews.com/antibiotics-bacterial-infections IMMEDIATE IMMUNE SYSTEM SUPPORT cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/visa_vrsa/visa_vrsa.html health.harvard.edu/flu-resource-center/vaccines-and-your-health.htm webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/how-use-your-immune-system-stay-healthy newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/11/080811fa_fact_groopman?currentPage=all nydailynews.com/life-style/health/super-gonorrhea-drug-resistant-bugs-deemed-urgent-threat-cdc-article-1.1458729 healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/breastfeeding/pages/Breastfeeding-Benefits-Your-Baby's-Immune-System.aspx DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING %24