As society continues to push towards antibiotics and the destruction of harmful bacteria, they put themselves at risk for further resistance issues in the future. Relying on antibiotics as the primary way for treating most bacterial diseases leaves the world without a solution when antibiotics no longer offer successful treatment. New methods of treatment derived by research ethnobotanist obtain through their interactions with various indigenous people may just provide the right solution to ensure a less resistant future.
. While the practice of prescribing antibiotics and killing the harmful bacteria seems like the correct solution, people forget to consider the few bacteria left behind and their impact on the medical future. Currently, …show more content…
Present medical advances so far have provided enough alternative medications to treat most bacteria, but each year resistant bacteria causes 700,000 deaths globally (Jabr). If the world continues to use antibiotics at the current rate, by 2050 experts expect the number of deaths due to resistant bacteria to exceed to over 10 million annually (Jabr). Common disease-causing bacteria, easily treated with antibiotics in 2016, may be the reason for thousands or millions of deaths. Seemingly low concern medical events such as routine surgeries, childbirth, or a small cut may prove deadly when antibiotics no longer treat the bacteria wreaking havoc (Jabr). The resistant bacteria are quickly causing a global crisis because in the near future treatable bacterial diseases may soon no longer be treatable and the resistant bacteria will begin to make their way across the entire …show more content…
Don Antonio, a traditional healer from Peru, found the children of the local villages with reoccurring parasites from the unfiltered river water (Jabr). He knew of a tree that once wounded would produce a milky sap, which if ingested in the correct dosage treated the internal parasites (Jabr). The milky sap provided the same treatment as clinics found in Peru, which are located too far away from many of the villages and cost too much money for the poorer families. Antonio’s knowledge; however, went mostly unused as the plant-based medical remedies failed to compete with mass-produced medication from the west (Jabr). Because of the push towards the use of antibiotics the knowledge of traditional healers fails to hold weight within the current global
. While the practice of prescribing antibiotics and killing the harmful bacteria seems like the correct solution, people forget to consider the few bacteria left behind and their impact on the medical future. Currently, …show more content…
Present medical advances so far have provided enough alternative medications to treat most bacteria, but each year resistant bacteria causes 700,000 deaths globally (Jabr). If the world continues to use antibiotics at the current rate, by 2050 experts expect the number of deaths due to resistant bacteria to exceed to over 10 million annually (Jabr). Common disease-causing bacteria, easily treated with antibiotics in 2016, may be the reason for thousands or millions of deaths. Seemingly low concern medical events such as routine surgeries, childbirth, or a small cut may prove deadly when antibiotics no longer treat the bacteria wreaking havoc (Jabr). The resistant bacteria are quickly causing a global crisis because in the near future treatable bacterial diseases may soon no longer be treatable and the resistant bacteria will begin to make their way across the entire …show more content…
Don Antonio, a traditional healer from Peru, found the children of the local villages with reoccurring parasites from the unfiltered river water (Jabr). He knew of a tree that once wounded would produce a milky sap, which if ingested in the correct dosage treated the internal parasites (Jabr). The milky sap provided the same treatment as clinics found in Peru, which are located too far away from many of the villages and cost too much money for the poorer families. Antonio’s knowledge; however, went mostly unused as the plant-based medical remedies failed to compete with mass-produced medication from the west (Jabr). Because of the push towards the use of antibiotics the knowledge of traditional healers fails to hold weight within the current global