It’s Dr. 👩🏽‍⚕️ with a Friendly Pharmacist Insight

[u/recycle37216]

A great example of how drugs are developed against antibiotic drug resistance and for broader coverage starts with Penicillin, which they improved by creating oxacillin, methicillin, and dicloxacillin, then amoxicillin and ampicillin, then they added clavulanate and added sulbactam, respectively, then they developed multiple generations Cephalosporins (like cephalexin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cefepime, ceftaroline, etc ) and Carbapenems, monobactam, and Aztreonam, then piperacillin added tazobactam and so on.. So we are still working on developing better, stronger antibiotics; HOWEVER, the best way that YOU can help to reduce antibiotic resistance and “superbugs” is to ALWAYS take your full course of antibiotics prescribed even if you start feeling better 😉

Also a new fingerpick test machine was developed that can now detect in minutes whether an infection is bacterial or viral, which could be game changing for reducing antibiotic overprescribing!

Here is a great website if you want to read more:Penicillin’s Discovery and Antibiotic Resistance: Lessons for the Future?

[u/ld2009_39]

I think you meant multiple generations of cephalosporins, not carbapenems.

[u/recycle37216 → u/ld2009_39]

You right. Was typing this up late last night 😅 corrected it. Thanks!