First, the public and medical personnel need to be educated and reeducated about the problems. Restrictions need to be imposed on the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. Prevention of infection by antibiotics is rarely useful such as in recurrent urinary tract infection with structural abnormalities, recurrent otitis media, a past history of rheumatic fever, in close contact with certain specific disease producing organisms such as Hemophilos type B or tuberculosis, newborn eye infections, and with certain septic surgical wounds, or bites. The more you use an antibiotic the faster you lose it. The loss of good antibiotics is alarming but not necessarily fatal.
Prudent use is indicated.
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