Q&A - Antimicrobial Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine? with Dame Sally Davies

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Is an antibacterial wipe more effective than soap and water? If everyone became a vegetarian, would that solve the crisis? Where do new antibiotics come from? Dame Sally Davies answers questions from the audience following her talk.
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Tackling antimicrobial resistance is the most complex thing since climate change and is a key priority for Dame Sally Davies in her role as Chief Medical Officer. Having secured support nationally from the Prime Minister and UK Government for the need to action, she is working tirelessly internationally to increase global awareness and secure commitments to action.
In this Discourse, Dame Sally explores why antimicrobial resistance has developed to such an extent that it is now a threat to modern medicine. She looks at how it is spreading across the globe, why we need to urgently change our attitude towards antimicrobials, in particular antibiotics, so that we treat them as a common good - not only in health but also in agriculture, farming, aquaculture and the environment.
Antimicrobials are a wonder drug, but only when used effectively. If we do not learn how to look after them, we could see a return to ‘pre-antibiotic era’ where 40% mortality is due to infections - something that is difficult to believe now.
Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer of the UK, acting as the UK government’s principal medical adviser and the professional head of all directors of public health in local government.
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  • @dominikexner2288
    @dominikexner22886 жыл бұрын

    I just wondered wether it would be even more dangerous if we would tap into the natural resorvoir of antibiotics. It there are some insects which are vital for the whole ecosystem would they not be endangered if we would evoke the evolution of resitent bakteria. I read there are also some nonorganical substances that could help fight bacteria like copper.

  • @danieljoses
    @danieljoses7 жыл бұрын

    Hi I was wondering whether someone in the know could give an option on the use of UV light (lamps Ect) and daylight exposure in the combatting of the spread of amrs and the spread of other bacteria

  • @jameskim6770

    @jameskim6770

    7 жыл бұрын

    Try reddit. I get some good answers from that website. r/askscience maybe?

  • @papaversomniferum5247

    @papaversomniferum5247

    7 жыл бұрын

    Short wave (254nm I think) UV light will kill just about everything in the cellular level. It kills exposed tissue as well in humans. Is suggest Google, it will give you a well write up on everything you need to know! It's good for HVAC systems in houses, it cleans air well, also water sterilizing, idk about shining it directly on your skin, and NEVER in your eyes...

  • @elfkind5590

    @elfkind5590

    7 жыл бұрын

    UV has a couple of large drawbacks. First, you must understand that uv has 4 classes (a,b,c,&v). UVA and UVB have the longest wavelengths and the best penetration (penetration through atmosphere and glass), these two are not very good fo much. UVC is the Germicidal Light. It has very poor penetration due to it's short wavelength and this makes physically using it an expensive and time consuming endever. In fact, most consumer UVC solutions I find to be useless due to underpowering. UVC is not something the average person should be playing with and so the bulbs do not actually put out the correct wavelength or are effective only inches away because of low wattage. UVC bulbs wear out quite fast. This could be changing due to LED technology. Testing the wavelength drift of a bulb is not easy and so it is hard to tell if they are still working. Bulb rotation every 6 months to a year become nessessary at significant cost. UVC damages DNA and eyes, it can hurt you before you know it. It doesn't kill bacteria, it makes it unable to reproduce. Sterilazition needs time, a 1:10 bleach and water solution requires one minute of wet time to actually work. A quaternary solution is less damaging to NON-living things but requires 10 minutes of wet time. Purell, as far as I can surmise from study, is totally ineffective do to contact time, evaporation and only having alcohol in it. This "kill time" is the real challenge and IMO the reason that hospitals are actually NOT clean. I have never met a cleaning person who understands the wetting time ...and we live in a spray on and wipe off, instant action gives deep satisfaction era. Protiens take time to denature, learning how to properly use chemical disinfectants is the best way to go. I personally use quaternary solutions and 10 minutes of wet time. They contain long carbon chains that do the work. Physan 20 is my weapon of choice and is FAR more cost effective than UVC.... BUT TEN MINUTES CAN SEEM LIKE FOREVER and a day.

  • @benlonghair
    @benlonghair6 жыл бұрын

    How do you know somebody's vegetarian? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

  • @SimonSozzi7258
    @SimonSozzi72586 жыл бұрын

    Filth and the other is...meth?

  • @papaversomniferum5247
    @papaversomniferum52477 жыл бұрын

    Yourhin-ol

  • @papaversomniferum5247
    @papaversomniferum52477 жыл бұрын

    Nano silver and cinnamon, as well as xylitol will help with this microbes lolol

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