At this time of disease, anti-bacterial products become a home-based, personalized escort, ranging from handwashing fluids, wet towels to clothes and utensils, as if with them they would keep away from bacteria. However, one of the areas of error in the silent spread is that individual use of antibacterial products does not result in bacterial resistance. This is not the case, and this misperception is making us unconsciously burying our health.
Bacteria resistance, in short, is the ability of bacteria, in their long-term confrontation with antibacterial substances, to evolve against antibacterial “attacks” by mutations of their own genes or by obtaining resistant genes from other bacteria. Antibacterial products that were effective became powerless in the face of drug-resistant bacteria.
When individuals frequently use antibacterial products, the “Pandora’s Box” of bacterial resistance is opened. In the case of anti-bacterial hand-washing, for example, most people wash their hands with the expectation that it will destroy all bacteria on hand. The general hand-washing fluid is cleaned of dirt through a surfactant, while the anti-bacterial hand-washing fluid is added to the anti-bacterial compositions of trichlorfon and phenylammonium. At first, these antibacterial agents did kill most of the common bacteria, such as coli and golden grapes. If, however, over-reliance, hand-washing must be carried out with anti-bacterial fluids each time, day after day, and part of the “recalcitrant” bacteria has a breathing chance. They constantly adapt their structures and metabolisms under constant “pressures” of low-concentration antibacterial ingredients, with some bacterial membranes changing their position in combination with antibacterial agents, making it difficult to bind antibacterial agents; and some bacteria produce enzymes that decompose antibacterial ingredients, such as trichlorfon-born esterase, that allow antibacterial agents “to die before they die”, which breeds in resistant bacteria.
This phenomenon is also evident in the family environment. Antibacterial fabrics claim to inhibit bacterial growth, and when frequent washing of clothing remains dependent on antibacterial detergent laundry powder, or in antibacterial pyjamas for long periods of time, bacteria are used frequently between clothing fibres and antibacterial components. Those bacteria that survive not only are resistant to their own drugs, but may also, through exposure, pass the resistant genes to other bacteria, form a resistant population and contaminate the entire living environment. Children’s toys and beddings are “hit” by drug-resistant bacteria, which are less immune and have increased the risk of infection.
Moreover, the effects of individual use of habits against bacterial products are significant. For example, when antibacterial wet towels are used, if the correct moistures are not followed, they simply pass over the surface of the object, not only do they not completely remove bacteria, but the remaining bacteria are exposed to low-intensity antibacterial ingredients and are more likely to produce resistance. For example, anti-bacterial mouthwashing, if the user is free to shorten the rinse or increase the frequency of use, the ecological balance of the bacteria in the mouth is broken, the prophylactics are suppressed, and the anti-drug resistant bacteria flourish.
This misperception is far-reaching. On the one hand, in terms of personal health, the treatment of drug-resistant bacteria has increased dramatically. The general antibiotics are not functioning, and the conditions may be unsustainable, with skin infections such as those caused by pyreccus, which are slow to heal and may cause whole-body infections. On the other hand, at the social level, the abuse of anti-bacterial products by individuals accelerates the spread of bacterial resistance, making the public health controls that were effective less effective, increasing the rate of infection in hospitals, increasing the pressure on new drug development and development, and increasing medical costs.
In order to break this error, individuals need to use antibacterial products rationally. The day-to-day cleaning preference is given to generic products without the need to abuse anti-bacterial agents; it is used in strict compliance with instructions and does not randomly increase or decrease the dose and frequency. Medical institutions should strengthen their general awareness-raising campaigns to inform the public about the risks of proper use of anti-bacterial products and drug resistance; and scientific researchers should step up their research and development efforts to develop more secure anti-bacterial technologies that are less resistant to drug resistance and work together to stifle the risk of bacterial resistance in the cradle.
