The head of the Infectious Diseases Research Center of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, referring to the dangers of improper use of antibiotics, warned: About 80% of febrile diseases are viral diseases and antibiotics have no effect on them.
Dr. Davood Yadegarinia in an interview with Tasnim News Agency; "Antibiotics should not be used arbitrarily because it kills some microbes, but others are resistant to the antibiotic due to various mechanisms; When antibiotics are overused and resistant, drug-resistant germs begin to grow in the body and are passed from person to person, making the antibiotic ineffective.
He added: "This happens more often in hospitals and we see that a person in the hospital receives too many antibiotics and the germ in his body becomes resistant to the drug; This germ is transmitted from person to person and this causes many problems.
What are the risks of microbial resistance?
"One of the problems with microbial resistance is that we have to use stronger antibiotics and the cost of treatment goes up because sometimes stronger antibiotics are more expensive and the length of hospital stay increases," he said. On the other hand, due to the ineffectiveness or ineffectiveness of antibiotics on that pathogen, the probability of mortality increases, so all members of society should be careful not to use antibiotics in infectious and febrile diseases without a doctor's prescription, and doctors should not prescribe irrationally. Avoid antibiotics and prescribe them when necessary. Pharmacies should not give antibiotics to patients without a doctor's prescription.
