In the course of the struggle against bacterial infections, people tend to focus on antibiotics, firmly believing that only antibiotics use can lead to the spread of bacterial resistance, and relaxing vigilance over the antibacterial products around them. But in fact, it is a one-sided perception that there is an urgent need to correct, and many routine antibacterial acts are silently “brick-and-brick” for the spread of bacterial resistance.
Antibiotics are indelible in the medical field, and they have saved countless lives from the bacterium infection. However, with the widespread and inappropriate use, bacteria have evolved in this “war” to acquire resistance through mutation of genes, gene transfer, etc., which has left some super-drug-resistant bacteria out of the world, leaving otherwise effective treatments helpless.
But bacterial resistance is by no means an antibiotic “unicorn”. In daily life, the antibacterial products, ranging from handwashing fluids, detergents, to clothing disinfectants, air cleaners, are all under the banner of “antibacterial” in an attempt to create a clean and sterile environment for people. In the case of antibacterial hand-washing fluids, the presence of antibacterial components such as trichlorfon and benzommonium benzo-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p Under this long-term, low-intensity “antibacterial training”, the bacterial membrane, cell walls or metabolic pathways are gradually changing in order to resist the “offensive” of antibacterial agents and develop resistance. Moreover, these drug-resistant bacteria can be transmitted through contact, such as handshakes, shared utensils, etc., to other bacteria, and form a drug-resistant “cumulative area” in small environments such as homes, schools, offices, etc.
Kitchen is also a “cubation ground” for drug-resistant bacteria. Antibacterial detergents, while removing oil stains and destroying common pathogens, have leftover antibacterial ingredients that form a “microbacterial battleground” on the rags, sink surfaces. Bacteria from food residues, such as coli and salmonella, are frequently overtook with antibacterial agents, constantly adjusting their own characteristics and becoming more “resistant”. Once they pollute food and enter human digestive tracts, they can cause diseases such as gastrointestinal inflammation, and common antibiotics cannot work when treated.
Abuse of anti-bacterial products in public places is equally worrying. In order to create a clean image, a number of malls, hotels, overuse of anti-bacterial cleaners to wipe elevator buttons, hand helpers, doorknobs, etc., appear to be clean, contributing to rapid bacterial resistance. People are exposed to these anti-bacterial parts, and their hands are contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria, which then enter the human body by touching their nose, nose, food, etc., increasing the risk of infection.
The area of personal care has also not been spared. The antibacterial component of women ‘ s hygiene supplies, which is intended to prevent infection in the private sector, inadvertently breaks the micro-ecological balance of the private sphere. Prophylactic bacteria such as Bacillus lactate are suppressed, harmful bacteria reproduce, and some of them are drug-resistant in their confrontation with anti-bacterial agents, making diseases such as vaginal inflammation repeated and disturbing the health of women.
The harm is far-reaching. On the one hand, individuals, through misperceptions, use antibacterial products without fear in their daily lives, unwittingly accelerate the process of bacterial resistance. Once they become infected with the antibacterium, the cost of treatment rises and the disease continues to deteriorate. On the other hand, at the social level, widespread non-inhibitant antibacterial resistance contributes to the rapid spread of bacterial resistance among the population, weakens the public health defence system, makes the control of infectious diseases more difficult and medical resources are stretched.
To get out of the wrong zone, the public needs to recreate its awareness that the misuse of antibacterial products is as dangerous as the misuse of antibiotics. The day-to-day clean-up preference is given to generic products without the need to abuse antibacterials; when antibacterial products are used, strict instructions are followed to avoid overuse. Medical institutions should strengthen their general awareness-raising campaigns to inform the public about the multiple causes of bacterial resistance, to direct the rational use of anti-bacterial products, to establish strong lines of defence against bacterial resistance from the point of life and to protect the health of the entire population.
