These days, I was always asked a question by my patients: Why dont you use antibiotics for me ? How could the wound recover without antibiotics? Every time I would spent time explaining to patients with my patience. I tried my best to change the deep notion in their mind, although most of the time useless.
Most Chinese ordinary people think after operation, they must be given antibiotics, without that their wound couldnt heal by itself. And even, when they catch a cough, get a fever,or a diarrhea and so on ,they must be given antibiotics, then they could recover.
Is antibiotics really so useful and powerful? And is antibiotics truly safe for everybody' body?
The answer is absolutely no.
First, let me talk about my patients. Most of them got a thyroid operation, which is a clear operation, called "type I " cut. In medicine, cut is classified into three type,I ,II and III.Type I means absolutely clear.Type II means probablely being polluted, like operations for gastrointestinal duct(There are plenty bacteria in your gastrointestinal duct). Type III means wound has been infected, like suppurative appendicitis. For Type I ,our country has very strict provision to ban to use antibiotics unless there is apparent infection of the wound. For Type II, we will use some basic antibiotics to prevent infection. Only for Type III operation, we could use some strong antibiotics.
Actually, no matter what type of antibiotics, it has so many side effect to our body, especially for liver and kidney.The worst thing is that, antibiotics abuse could lead a very serious social problem. As we know, according to Darwinian' evolution, every species will suvive to live, including bacteria. Once we use antibiotics too much, there must be more and more bacteria they wont be sensitive to these antibiotics and tolerant to it. Resulting that antibiotics are more and more useless to patients. There was even a thing happened in our hospital' ICU, a patient infected a kind bacterium, but test showed the bacterium was insensitive to all the current antibiotics. Which means the patient' only result was waiting to die, no helps we doctors could gave. And this was a very terrible horror for other patients in the ICU, once they got it ,they also would die. So our hospital had to close the ICU temporarily.
Next time I would talk about antibiotics contituously..............