Antibiotic resistance is a result when using antibiotics not in appropriate manner. We need larger doses if there is resistance. Here some tips to avoid antibiotic resistance:
1. Finish your prescription drugs even though your condition improved. If not, antibiotics are not given enough time to cure the infection completely, so that later became a relapse. The bacteria also become resistant to antibiotics no longer work if you got the same disease.
2. Follow your doctor’s instructions carefully. Take medication as recommended by your doctor.
3. Do not take double doses to cover drugs that you forget to take. Continue to take medication as recommended by your doctor and skip doses were forgetfulness.
4. Do not take antibiotics who once prescribed. Better to dump it.
5. If there is a side effect of antibiotics or no sign of improvement, you must consult with the doctor again.
where a microorganism has developed the ability to survive exposure to an antibiotic. Genes can be transferred between bacteria in a horizontal fashion by conjugation, transduction, or transformation. Thus a gene for antibiotic resistance which had evolved via natural selection may be shared. Evolutionary stress such as exposure to antibiotics than selects for the antibiotic resistant trait. Many antibiotic resistance genes reside on plasmids, facilitating their transfer. If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a superbug.
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