{"id":10610,"date":"2022-06-08T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:26:55","slug":"antibiotic-abuse-why-does-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/antibiotic-abuse-why-does-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic abuse: why does it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The different causes of antibiotic overuse are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased antimicrobial use in the community and hospital<\/li>\n<li>Increase in empiric antibiotics<\/li>\n<li>Prolonged and broad-spectrum antibiotic courses<\/li>\n<li>Repeated antibiotic courses<\/li>\n<li>Prolonged Hospitalizations<\/li>\n<li>Severely ill patient status<\/li>\n<li>Immuno-compromised state<\/li>\n<li>Increased use of intravascular devices and catheters<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate infection control procedures<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotic use in animals and agriculture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to overcome this problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use narrow spectrum antibiotics or older antibiotics.<\/li>\n<li>Shorter duration of therapy when appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>Manipulate the dose of antibiotics.<\/li>\n<li>Educate people to use fewer antibiotics.<\/li>\n<li>Focus more on prevention rather than using antibiotics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The different causes of antibiotic overuse are: Increased antimicrobial use in the community and hospital Increase in empiric antibiotics Prolonged and broad-spectrum antibiotic courses Repeated antibiotic courses Prolonged Hospitalizations Severely ill patient status Immuno-compromised state Increased use of intravascular devices and catheters Inadequate infection control procedures Antibiotic use in animals and agriculture How to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuse-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10613,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions\/10613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}