Antibiotics are commonly used as the treatment of many infections. Children often get sick and doctors will determine the nature of their illness and prescribe different antibiotics to treat them.
According to CBS News, the number of antibiotic-resistant infections is getting higher in the United States. Children are most affected by such illnesses. Studies have revealed that during the past two decades, the percentage of bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotics have increased.
Teenage children from the Midwest have shown the most resistance to the most effective antibiotics. Such infections can cause long-term illnesses and more hospital admissions,while more dangerous consequences could occur. The situation has the potential to aggravate to a huge extent such that it can cause millions of death, as per the statement made by the United Nations.
Researchers and doctors have started facing troublesome situations in which they are deemed helpless against these deadly infections that previously used to be treated with simple antibiotics. According to some reports, bacteria, viruses and germs that were previously targeted with antibiotics have now become much more resilient in shrugging off attacks from medical treatments designed to eliminate them.
Experts around the world have given an approximation that around 700,000 people become victims of these drug-resistant superbugs each year. As per another CBS News report, these infections could lead to deaths of children affected by those bacteria.
Health scientists in the New York suggest to create a new medicine to overcome these infections rather than overusing the antibiotics again and again. The drug-resistant infections are found everywhere and sometimes it is due to the fact that the drugs are not properly administered.
In the United States, a certain bacteria named Pseudomonas aeruginosa is found in the blood samples of most sick children, the bacteria is resistant even to the last resort antibiotics. More than 50,000 patients are annually affected with P. Aeruginosa and more than ten percent of them show drug resistance while 400 deaths are recorded every year.
