Hyderabad: The doctor is now increasingly prescribing the popular antibiotic during grandfather’s time.
This is to fight antimicrobial resistance which has become a major health disorder with bacteria that causes illness and smart rotating fungi to appear as a superbug.
Pandemic Covid-19 only permeated the rise of drugs that were forgotten to treat bacterial and fungal infections.
The drugs used by returning in the 1940s are now prescribed to attack modern superbugs with old medical bullets.
Because germs are now not used to old antibiotics, they become vulnerable and die.
“Forgotten formulation has now appeared as a modern savior.
The experiment with old antibiotics to defeat antimicrobial resistance is to pay rich dividends,” Neurosurgeon said Dr.
P Ranganadham.
He said since the penicillin, was found in 1928, there were many drugs that save humanity.
But too often using or abuse of drugs causes antimicrobial resistance, forcing doctors to look for new drugs.
Stating that antibiotics from the past came cheap and tested time, Raham, who had seen the evolution of the drug in the past four decades, told TOI that because some of the forgotten antibiotics such as Colistin and Clindamycin could also develop the spread of horizontal resistance, doctors must think of combination therapy , According to Dr.
Shyamala Iyengar, a senior consultant at Apollo Hospital in Hydergak’s Hyderguda, India has one of the highest levels of resilience to antimicrobial agents.
“One strategy to overcome it is to use extraordinary antibiotics,” he said.