Antibiotics Resistance

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Hello reader!

In this post, I'd like to inform you about antibiotic resistance. After reading this post, I hope, you will be able to understand about antibiotic resistance and do what you can do to avoid that. 

I'd like to give you a fact. According to World Health Organization, in 2015, Indonesia is on the second place as the largest number of tuberculosis patients in the world, after Tiongkok. Do you know tuberculosis disease? Tuberculosis disease is one of numerous infectious diseases which can cause death to the patient. Thanks to the development of medicine research, not only Tuberculosis but also another deadly infectious diseases can be cured by antibiotic.

However, have you ever imagined before, those deadly infectious diseases which can be cured presently can not be cured in the future? The hospitals will be full of the patients who want to be cured but actually there is no medication can be used. Consequently, the cemetaries will also be full of the patients who are dead. Since, those diseases are infectious, contagious, and able to spread to another person, one by one, each persons will suffer the disease and will be dead at final. Such a horrible disaster or like doomsday in biological hazard version. 

Do we want that horrible disaster occurs to our next generation in the future? Absolutely no! It happens for what we have done at this time. At this time, there are still some people who don't finish up antibiotics and buy antibiotics without prescription. So, if we don't want that horrible disaster occurs to our next generation, there are two ways which are by finishing up antibiotics and not to buy antibiotics without prescription.

Firstly is by finishing up antibiotics. To explain this, I'd like to give an example. A patient was given 18 tablets needed to be consumed three tablets a day, it means the patient was needed to finish it up for 6 days. The doctor had decided it because the doctor had calculated it that it's only in 6 day, 100% bacteries could be destroyed. If the patient stopped the consumption just in 5 days as the patient felt better just in 5 days, actually, it was only 80% bacteries destroyed, while there was still 20% bacteries alive. Those 20% bacteries alive would learn how antibiotics worked, would do mutation, and would become stronger bacteries which would be invulnerable to same antibiotics. Furthermore, those stronger antibiotics could spread to the environment. If there i another patient who suffer same infectious disease, same antibiotics can not be used anymore. It needs stronger antibiotics to destroy those stronger bacteries. 

While, that horrible disaster may happen as we have imagined before, if the last antibiotics invented can not be used anymore. Currently, some antibiotics had been invented until its 4th generation. For example Cephalosphorine. If there will be bacteries stronger than its 4th generation, that horrible disaster may occur. Maybe you would ask, why don't the researcher invent another antibiotics so there will be its 5th generation? Actually, inventing antibiotics is not as easy as you think. It needs tens even hundreds year to research it. So, that's why, it's really important for us to finish up antibiotics.

Secondly is not to buy antibiotics without prescription. Different infectious diseases, different type of antibiotics and doses of antibiotics too. Besides that, there are a lot of factors to be considered in deciding the treatment. While the misuse of antibiotics will also be able to trigger antibiotics resistance. In this case, you may ask, isn't there a pharmacist? So, even though we buy antibiotics without prescription, the pharmacist will refuse to give it. So, it will be the same, buy or not to buy without prescription. We can not get antibiotics at all. But, the fact is, according to the survey that my pharmacy friends and I had done. Some pharmacist still gave antibiotics as the buyer wanted even though the buyer didn't have prescription. While, under the law, we have known that pharmacist are not allowed to give antibiotics without prescription. Rather than discussing about antibiotics, it's better to tell you not to buy antibiotics without prescription.

The conclusion is to save our next generation or to avoid antibiotics resistance is by finishing up antibiotics and not to buy antibiotics without prescription. Please, tell the others who haven't been informed about this, to do so. That's our job, if it's not us, who else can save our next generation. That's all. Thank you for visiting :D

Notes:

Thank you Mia Fithriyah for letting me borrow your laptop so I could write this post :D

SIAK War

In this post, I'd like to share about my experience in SIAK War. I assume you, the reader, are the student at Universitas Indonesia, or wherever you come from or you have ever become a college student must have experienced something similar to SIAK War. Before that, I'd like to give or remind you a brief explanation of SIAK War. SIAK War is composed of 2 words, "SIAK" and "War". SIAK is an UI online system which one of its functions is to help the students to fill their study plan for the upcoming semester, to be clearer, the students have to book classes, what kind of classes they want to enter for the upcoming semester. While "War" means there will be something competed. In SIAK War, "something competed" is a favorite class. A class becomes favorite, because its subjects are easy to learn and it has good lecturer. Since, the favorite class is limited only for some students, due to also limited capacity of the lecturer to teach, only some students who are determined, strong, and have good strategy could be the winner.

As a final year student, I have experienced SIAK War for about 7 times. But, the most unforgettable experience I've ever had is when I was going to enter the 7th semester. I almost got all of the unwanted classes. It happened like this:

"So, I have to be ready in front of the laptop before the war begins. I have to choose this class, this class, and this class to be safe, and I need to avoid this class, this class, and this class because the subjects are not easy to learn." I said to myself.

The war began at 9 am...

However, the system was down. Because of a very tense of SIAK War. Thousands of students from all faculties were trying to access the system. That's way the system was down. As so many complains they got, the officer announced, "The system will be able to be accessed in rotation, so there will be a schedule for each faculty." My faculty was scheduled on the next day. As the officer said like that, I believed it.

At night around 9 pm before the next day, my friend asked me, "Nuri, what kind of classes do you book?" I was so confused, "What? I haven't booked any classes yet. Isn't the system able to be accessed on the next day?". She said that actually, since 5 pm, the system was able to be accessed. But why? Why did nobody tell me about it? They were really cruel. They kept it as a secret so they could be the winner. As you've known before, even 10 minutes late will turn you into the loser. Yeah, I was totally the loser.

I was jealous, I had same right, but why I couldn't make it. My fate was really damn bad. I got almost all of the unwanted classes. I cried a lot, How did it happen? Why did it happen? How will my future be? How will my semester academics score be? What kind of mistakes I've ever done so I need to face this fate?

Then I realized, it was not a problem to be sobbed. There were also some unlucky students like me. I need to be patient. "Inna ma'al 'usri yusraa" means, together with the difficulty there is an easiness. Then, I was so determined, I promised to myself. Even though I was totally the loser, even though the the classes had subjects more difficult to learn, I could also get good semester academic score. I need to study harder than before.

As I studied harder. I could make it, even I never imagined it before. My semester academics score was 3.93. I had 9 classes, which 7 classes I got A score, while the rest, 2 classes I got A- score. Actually, I wasn't sure I could make it, because from third semester to sixth semester, my semester academics score was never more than 3.5, and it's always under 3.5.

The conclusion is even though I was totally the loser. It was not the end of my case. The purpose of my case is to get good semester academics score. Becoming the winner in SIAK War is only one of the ways to get good academics score. Even, I realized, the best way to get good semester academics score is by studying hard than anything.

While the lesson learned I want you to obtain is never think negatively to your fate, accept it for what it is, do something with a hard work, be persistent, and happiness will follow you.

That's all. For you who still study, good luck for the upcoming semester. Thank you for visiting my blog :D

Personal Hygiene, Let's Get Used To It!

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Personal hygiene is a series of activities to make body clean in order to decrease the contamination risk of micro bacteria which causes various infectious diseases. We can say that personal hygiene is the main way to prevent from getting infectious disease. Do you know why we need to prevent from infectious disease. It's because of popular serious infectious disease like malaria, tuberculosis, even meningitis is able to cause death to the sufferer. Just like Olga had experienced, it happened maybe because he couldn't keep his personal hygiene. Therefore, it's true that, doing prevention is better than doing treatment or medication.

In this writing, I'm not going to elaborate more about the important of having personal hygiene. But, I would like to share with you how to keep personal hygiene. There are two simple way to keep personal hygiene. They are washing the entire part of your body and paying attention to the simple things you could do to decrease getting contact with micro bacteria. 

So, just let's move to the first way, it's washing the entire part of your body. It means, not only washing your skin, hair, and teeth, but also your ear, nostril, navel, and other part that maybe sometimes you neglect to wash it like the part between your toes. Maybe, some people  are common to wash only some part of the body. How about, how many people is common to wash the entire part of the body? I think it's not too much. For those people who is common to wash some part of the body, maybe they have a lot of activities in a day, so they only have around 5 to 7 minutes to take a bath. But, don't do that. Because those part that I've mentioned before, is also the part that can getting contact with micro bacteria. For example, if you neglect to wash your ear, you will have ear infection, or if you neglect to wash your mouth cavity, you will have mouth cavity infection, with the symptom is having bad smell. Nevertheless, I believe, you can make sure the entire part of your body can be clean in only that limited minutes. 

Let's go the second way, it's paying attention to the simple things you could do to decrease getting contact with micro bacteria. For example, you should use sandals every time you go to the toilet, wear clean cloths, or wash the hand before and after having meals. It's like using something to avoid getting contact with micro bacteria. About using sandals every time you go to the toilet, not only prevent you from getting contact with micro bacteria, but also prevent you from getting contact with some insects, for example worm and cockroach. Just for your information, there are some worms that can enter the body by penetrating the skin, and interfere the body activities, so you will be sick. Still . in this case, I have a story. Several months ago, my mother had chronic urinary tract infection. After having interview with the doctor, the doctor found that my mother had unproper habit every time she wash after defecating or poop. The proper way is to wash from the front to the back, while she got used to wash from the back to the front. Actually, the number of micro bacteria in the back is higher than the front. So, if you wash from the back to the front, the micro bacteria will get contact to the front and contaminate the urinary tract. That's simple things you need to pay attention.

In conclusion, there are two ways to keep your personal hygiene, they are washing the entire part of your body and paying attention to the simple thing you could do to decrease getting contact with micro bacteria. I hope, after this, you will be able to get used to it and inspire other people surrounding you to get used to it too. That's all, thank you for visiting my blog :D