How does bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?

Some bacteria, especially staph, has the capability of morphing/mutating very quickly and becoming used to various treatments making the treatments ineffective. Another pathogen that is very capable of doing this is Candida albicans, becoming resistant to treatment within a matter of days. It's kind of like evolution in fast forward.

Humans and other animals have been able to evolve over the years becoming capable of surviving various exposures, living in different environments etc. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi have the same capability just at a much, much faster rate. MRSA (antibiotic resistant staph) is now the superbug due to repeated exposure and it's rapid mutating capabilities due to the use of antibacterial soaps, hand sanitizers, overuse of various antibiotics, etc.It is now extremely resistant to most antibiotics and you can forget hand sanitizer doing anything. Some strains are so strong that almost NOTHING will kill it.

Actually dealing with a case of MRSA right now with one of my children and the strain of staph was only sensitive to 1 antibiotic in the culture. He was treated with this powerful antibiotic but had such severe reactions to it that he ended up suffering from anaphylaxis and steven-johnson syndrome. No antibiotic to treat now, so were using Colloidal Silver to pack the infection and it's healing well.

Just something to keep in mind if you ever run in to this nasty little bug :).

Antibiotics are compounds that either: 1. Kill bacteria directly (bacteriocidal) 2. Hamper their ability to grow and reproduce (bacteriostatic) When you are fighting off a bacterial infection, your immune system can be overwhelmed by the invading bugs.

Antibiotics are thrown into the fray to mount a defense against the invaders until your immune system can recover and finish off the remaining bacteria. How do antibiotics stave off bacterial growth? Antibiotics stop or interfere with a number of everyday cellular processes that bacteria rely on for growth and survival, such as: * crippling production of the bacterial cell wall that protects the cell from the external environment * interfering with protein synthesis by binding to the machinery that builds proteins, amino acid by amino acid * wreaking havoc with metabolic processes, such as the synthesis of folic acid, a B vitamin that bacteria need to thrive * blocking synthesis of DNA and RNA.

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