Drug Resistance: A Growing Threat to Human Health

Wellness and good health are what everyone wants, and what every sick person desires is to be reinstated back to a perfect state of health. To achieve this, we need to visit the hospital and get treated by a medical practitioner, who often prescribes drugs to us so such medicine can combat the illness and restore our health. There's no doubt about the effectiveness of these medicines; however, it's no secret that many of these medicines, when used for too long, can get to a point where we've built a resistance against them, to the point where the medicine becomes ineffective towards them. At this point, what do we do?

To be candid, it's worth knowing that I'm no medical expert, nor do I know much about these aspects of life, but what I do know is the fact that, of a truth, some illnesses do build resistance to medicines we use often to combat illnesses. And I don't really think that happening is surprising to me. Why it's not surprising is probably because I've come to understand that everything has its downside; regardless of how great they might seem, they have their downside. For these medicines, it's either having a side effect that affects other aspects of our health or getting to a point where they become inactive to combat the illness they ought to cure.

Take, for example, people who take medicine such as paracetamol so often that it gets to a stage whereby regardless of how much they take, it seems not to have any impact on them. Now I understand that taking paracetamol for a long time isn't ideal, and it can damage the liver, but then people down here tend to neglect that aspect and feel like it's the medicine they can just use whenever they have slight changes in their well-being, which ought not to be so. So it has now gotten to a point where their body has become so accustomed to the pill that it takes no effect on their body. When such happens, what should one do?

Well, in my opinion, when that happens, we must understand that danger is looming in the corner, and we must take swift steps to save ourselves, our health, and our well-being. I believe that the first thing to do is to first of all stop the usage of such medicine so it won't cause more havoc than what it already has. The second thing to do is to, as quickly as possible, visit the hospital and see the doctor so we can lodge our complaints, and so the medical practitioner can vet your system and suggest what you can use to help you get better.

These are some of the dark sides of evolution and human advancement, but that doesn't mean they're entirely bad, because evolution has brought us lots of benefits. Although I've not been in a position where my body or illness grew resistance to a particular medicine, and I don't pray, I find myself in that situation. Talking about the hope humanity has if illnesses keep growing resistance towards various medications, I guess we'll just have to look out for alternatives. We humans are resistant, and I know we'll definitely evolve and get through that phase.

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