Antibiotics are losing effectiveness

Just now I saw a show in Discovery Science and it was talking about a baby who is suffering from an illness which is drug-resistant.

I continued watching on, and what I learnt was that antibiotics will not be as good as it is now later in the future.

Bacteria are living organisms. They grow, and evolve to adapt the changes in the environment, just like all the other living organisms. Let's say there's this guy, we name him Mr. X.

Mr.X just got infected by bacteria Y. Bacteria Y multiplies in Mr. X's body. White blood cells then wage war against the bacteria. But the bacteria's too powerful, so, Mr. X was very ill and went to the clinic. The doctor prescribed some antibiotics. Antibiotics are like the superweapons in the micro war. And so, bacterias were killed. Few days later, he was back to normal, so he stopped taking the antibiotics. Little did he know, there were still a tiny amount of bacteria Y left in his body, too little to cause any problem. Soon they multiplied and the new generation of Bacteria Y have a little resistance to that antibiotic. It kept multiplying, and Mr. X fell ill again. Unfortunately, the antibiotics have became less effective. So, the doctor prescribed a better antibiotic for the man. It worked, and he stopped taking the last bits of the antibiotics left in the medicine bottole. And, you'll know what happens next.

That's why antibiotics must be finished. And, like any other drugs, antibiotics must never be misused or overused. If antibiotics stopped working, we'll all return to the pre-antibiotics era, when used-to-be-easily-treatable illnesses can't be dealt with. That's not good.

So, respect antibiotics, and they'll respect you back. Oh, wait, that didn't come out right...