[ppiindia] Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin

2005-03-14 Terurut Topik rahardjo mustadjab

Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin.  Luka biasa
jadi serius dan bisa berakibat pada kematian.  Beribu
macam infeksi jadi tidak terobati.  Jutaan orang akan
mati setelah menjalani operasi.  Pernah jutaan orang
tewas akibat sipilis yang melanda dunia.  Semua
penderitaan manusia itu sirna setelah Sir Alexander
Fleming menemukan penicillin.

Tapi sekarang dunia dihadapkan pada soal overuse
penicillin atau tepatnya penggunaan penicillin tanpa
resep dokter.  Awas, jangan mengobati diri sendiri.
Obat harus digunakan terus sampai habis sesuai dengan
resep.  Jangan berhenti, karena merasa sudah sembuh.
Pemakaian obat dibawah dosis akan menyebabkan sumber
penyakit kebal terhadap penicillin.  Lebih baik
kelebihan sedikit daripada kurang dosis.

Salam,
RM  



The legacy of Fleming - 50 years on 
By Nick Triggle 
BBC News health reporter  



Concern about hospital infections such as MRSA is one
of the most controversial issues in today's NHS. 






About 5,000 people die from such infections out of the
many millions who go into hospitals each year. 

But 70 years ago, the situation was much worse. 

People could often die from a sore throat if the
infection spread to the lungs. 

And pneumonia and post-operative infections killed one
in three of those who got them. 

Within a decade that figure had dropped to just a few
per cent. The reason - penicillin. 

It was the world's first antibiotic when it was
discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, who died 50 years
ago on Friday. 

The scientist, who was working at London's St Mary's
Hospital at the time, stumbled upon the antibiotic
partly by accident in 1928. 

Attention 

During some routine research, he noticed a mould had
developed on a dish on which he had been growing a
bacteria but had forgotten about while he was away on
holiday. 

What grabbed his attention was that the mould seemed
to have destroyed most of the bacteria. 

Sir Alexander extracted the antibacterial substance
from the mould and penicillin was officially found. 


 Penicillin uses 
Bacterial infections - effective against the likes of
meningitis, pneumonia and blood poisoning. 
STIs - Just like the contraceptive pill, penicillin
had an impact on the sexual revolution, helping to
treat syphilis and gonorrhoea. 
War - mass produced by the US to stop soldiers dying
form infection wounds towards the end of World War II.
 

It was another 12 years before the antibiotic was
ready for commercial use following tenacious, but
often overlooked, work by Oxford University scientists
Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and Ernst Chain. 

By the end of World War II, the US was mass producing
the antibiotic and using it to treat soldiers' war
wounds. 

And once peace was restored, the public began
demanding to be given the so-called wonder drug. 

At the end of the 1940s more than 250,000 patients a
month were being prescribed penicillin to treat a
variety of diseases from blood poisoning and pneumonia
to syphilis and gonorrhoea. 

The drug also allowed doctors to carry out
increasingly more invasive treatments, which would
have been impossible before because of infections. 

Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Museum
and author of a biography of the scientist, Penicillin
Man, said it was one of the most important discoveries
in medical history. 

Discovery 

Before Fleming's discovery there really was not
treatment for infectious disease. It was a killer, he
said. 

It seems strange now, but that was the way it was.
When it came onto the market it revolutionised
medicine. 

Mr Brown said it also brought fame to the scientist,
who was born in 1881 in a remote area of Ayrshire in
Scotland. 


 If we are careful I think the use of penicillin will
continue 
Dr Robert Bud, 
Science Museum  

The public really took Fleming to their hearts. He
was unassuming and quiet. It was a case of the little
man who had become a real success. 

Dr Anne Hardy, from London's Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, said Sir Alexander's
discovery, for which he was later knighted and won the
Nobel Prize, also benefited the whole of medical
profession. 

In particular, it transformed public perception of
what medicine could do. For the first time people
became aware of what doctors could really achieve. 

But Dr Hardy said the antibiotic became a victim of
its own success as it was soon over-prescribed and
resistance started building up. 

Resistance 

All antibiotics are used badly and penicillin was no
different. Patients were literally demanding it from
their doctors and they got it, she said. 

By the mid to late 1940s other antibiotics started
coming onto the market to challenge penicillin. 

The major two were streptomycin - effective against
TB, something beyond even the wonder drug's powers -
and cepholosporin. 

But in 1959, four years after Sir Alexander's death,
scientists made a breakthrough in their fight against
antibiotic resistance with the first generation
semi-synthetic 

[ppiindia] Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin

2005-03-14 Terurut Topik rahardjo mustadjab

Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin.  Luka biasa
jadi serius dan bisa berakibat pada kematian.  Beribu
macam infeksi jadi tidak terobati.  Jutaan orang akan
mati setelah menjalani operasi.  Pernah jutaan orang
tewas akibat sipilis yang melanda dunia.  Semua
penderitaan manusia itu sirna setelah Sir Alexander
Fleming menemukan penicillin.

Tapi sekarang dunia dihadapkan pada soal overuse
penicillin atau tepatnya penggunaan penicillin tanpa
resep dokter.  Awas, jangan mengobati diri sendiri.
Obat harus digunakan terus sampai habis sesuai dengan
resep.  Jangan berhenti, karena merasa sudah sembuh.
Pemakaian obat dibawah dosis akan menyebabkan sumber
penyakit kebal terhadap penicillin.  Lebih baik
kelebihan sedikit daripada kurang dosis.

Salam,
RM  



The legacy of Fleming - 50 years on 
By Nick Triggle 
BBC News health reporter  



Concern about hospital infections such as MRSA is one
of the most controversial issues in today's NHS. 






About 5,000 people die from such infections out of the
many millions who go into hospitals each year. 

But 70 years ago, the situation was much worse. 

People could often die from a sore throat if the
infection spread to the lungs. 

And pneumonia and post-operative infections killed one
in three of those who got them. 

Within a decade that figure had dropped to just a few
per cent. The reason - penicillin. 

It was the world's first antibiotic when it was
discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, who died 50 years
ago on Friday. 

The scientist, who was working at London's St Mary's
Hospital at the time, stumbled upon the antibiotic
partly by accident in 1928. 

Attention 

During some routine research, he noticed a mould had
developed on a dish on which he had been growing a
bacteria but had forgotten about while he was away on
holiday. 

What grabbed his attention was that the mould seemed
to have destroyed most of the bacteria. 

Sir Alexander extracted the antibacterial substance
from the mould and penicillin was officially found. 


 Penicillin uses 
Bacterial infections - effective against the likes of
meningitis, pneumonia and blood poisoning. 
STIs - Just like the contraceptive pill, penicillin
had an impact on the sexual revolution, helping to
treat syphilis and gonorrhoea. 
War - mass produced by the US to stop soldiers dying
form infection wounds towards the end of World War II.
 

It was another 12 years before the antibiotic was
ready for commercial use following tenacious, but
often overlooked, work by Oxford University scientists
Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and Ernst Chain. 

By the end of World War II, the US was mass producing
the antibiotic and using it to treat soldiers' war
wounds. 

And once peace was restored, the public began
demanding to be given the so-called wonder drug. 

At the end of the 1940s more than 250,000 patients a
month were being prescribed penicillin to treat a
variety of diseases from blood poisoning and pneumonia
to syphilis and gonorrhoea. 

The drug also allowed doctors to carry out
increasingly more invasive treatments, which would
have been impossible before because of infections. 

Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Museum
and author of a biography of the scientist, Penicillin
Man, said it was one of the most important discoveries
in medical history. 

Discovery 

Before Fleming's discovery there really was not
treatment for infectious disease. It was a killer, he
said. 

It seems strange now, but that was the way it was.
When it came onto the market it revolutionised
medicine. 

Mr Brown said it also brought fame to the scientist,
who was born in 1881 in a remote area of Ayrshire in
Scotland. 


 If we are careful I think the use of penicillin will
continue 
Dr Robert Bud, 
Science Museum  

The public really took Fleming to their hearts. He
was unassuming and quiet. It was a case of the little
man who had become a real success. 

Dr Anne Hardy, from London's Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, said Sir Alexander's
discovery, for which he was later knighted and won the
Nobel Prize, also benefited the whole of medical
profession. 

In particular, it transformed public perception of
what medicine could do. For the first time people
became aware of what doctors could really achieve. 

But Dr Hardy said the antibiotic became a victim of
its own success as it was soon over-prescribed and
resistance started building up. 

Resistance 

All antibiotics are used badly and penicillin was no
different. Patients were literally demanding it from
their doctors and they got it, she said. 

By the mid to late 1940s other antibiotics started
coming onto the market to challenge penicillin. 

The major two were streptomycin - effective against
TB, something beyond even the wonder drug's powers -
and cepholosporin. 

But in 1959, four years after Sir Alexander's death,
scientists made a breakthrough in their fight against
antibiotic resistance with the first generation
semi-synthetic 

[ppiindia] Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin

2005-03-14 Terurut Topik rahardjo mustadjab

Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin.  Luka biasa
jadi serius dan bisa berakibat pada kematian.  Beribu
macam infeksi jadi tidak terobati.  Jutaan orang akan
mati setelah menjalani operasi.  Pernah jutaan orang
tewas akibat sipilis yang melanda dunia.  Semua
penderitaan manusia itu sirna setelah Sir Alexander
Fleming menemukan penicillin.

Tapi sekarang dunia dihadapkan pada soal overuse
penicillin atau tepatnya penggunaan penicillin tanpa
resep dokter.  Awas, jangan mengobati diri sendiri.
Obat harus digunakan terus sampai habis sesuai dengan
resep.  Jangan berhenti, karena merasa sudah sembuh.
Pemakaian obat dibawah dosis akan menyebabkan sumber
penyakit kebal terhadap penicillin.  Lebih baik
kelebihan sedikit daripada kurang dosis.

Salam,
RM  



The legacy of Fleming - 50 years on 
By Nick Triggle 
BBC News health reporter  



Concern about hospital infections such as MRSA is one
of the most controversial issues in today's NHS. 






About 5,000 people die from such infections out of the
many millions who go into hospitals each year. 

But 70 years ago, the situation was much worse. 

People could often die from a sore throat if the
infection spread to the lungs. 

And pneumonia and post-operative infections killed one
in three of those who got them. 

Within a decade that figure had dropped to just a few
per cent. The reason - penicillin. 

It was the world's first antibiotic when it was
discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, who died 50 years
ago on Friday. 

The scientist, who was working at London's St Mary's
Hospital at the time, stumbled upon the antibiotic
partly by accident in 1928. 

Attention 

During some routine research, he noticed a mould had
developed on a dish on which he had been growing a
bacteria but had forgotten about while he was away on
holiday. 

What grabbed his attention was that the mould seemed
to have destroyed most of the bacteria. 

Sir Alexander extracted the antibacterial substance
from the mould and penicillin was officially found. 


 Penicillin uses 
Bacterial infections - effective against the likes of
meningitis, pneumonia and blood poisoning. 
STIs - Just like the contraceptive pill, penicillin
had an impact on the sexual revolution, helping to
treat syphilis and gonorrhoea. 
War - mass produced by the US to stop soldiers dying
form infection wounds towards the end of World War II.
 

It was another 12 years before the antibiotic was
ready for commercial use following tenacious, but
often overlooked, work by Oxford University scientists
Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and Ernst Chain. 

By the end of World War II, the US was mass producing
the antibiotic and using it to treat soldiers' war
wounds. 

And once peace was restored, the public began
demanding to be given the so-called wonder drug. 

At the end of the 1940s more than 250,000 patients a
month were being prescribed penicillin to treat a
variety of diseases from blood poisoning and pneumonia
to syphilis and gonorrhoea. 

The drug also allowed doctors to carry out
increasingly more invasive treatments, which would
have been impossible before because of infections. 

Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Museum
and author of a biography of the scientist, Penicillin
Man, said it was one of the most important discoveries
in medical history. 

Discovery 

Before Fleming's discovery there really was not
treatment for infectious disease. It was a killer, he
said. 

It seems strange now, but that was the way it was.
When it came onto the market it revolutionised
medicine. 

Mr Brown said it also brought fame to the scientist,
who was born in 1881 in a remote area of Ayrshire in
Scotland. 


 If we are careful I think the use of penicillin will
continue 
Dr Robert Bud, 
Science Museum  

The public really took Fleming to their hearts. He
was unassuming and quiet. It was a case of the little
man who had become a real success. 

Dr Anne Hardy, from London's Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, said Sir Alexander's
discovery, for which he was later knighted and won the
Nobel Prize, also benefited the whole of medical
profession. 

In particular, it transformed public perception of
what medicine could do. For the first time people
became aware of what doctors could really achieve. 

But Dr Hardy said the antibiotic became a victim of
its own success as it was soon over-prescribed and
resistance started building up. 

Resistance 

All antibiotics are used badly and penicillin was no
different. Patients were literally demanding it from
their doctors and they got it, she said. 

By the mid to late 1940s other antibiotics started
coming onto the market to challenge penicillin. 

The major two were streptomycin - effective against
TB, something beyond even the wonder drug's powers -
and cepholosporin. 

But in 1959, four years after Sir Alexander's death,
scientists made a breakthrough in their fight against
antibiotic resistance with the first generation
semi-synthetic 

[ppiindia] Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin

2005-03-14 Terurut Topik rahardjo mustadjab

Bayangkan seandainya tidak ada penicillin.  Luka biasa
jadi serius dan bisa berakibat pada kematian.  Beribu
macam infeksi jadi tidak terobati.  Jutaan orang akan
mati setelah menjalani operasi.  Pernah jutaan orang
tewas akibat sipilis yang melanda dunia.  Semua
penderitaan manusia itu sirna setelah Sir Alexander
Fleming menemukan penicillin.

Tapi sekarang dunia dihadapkan pada soal overuse
penicillin atau tepatnya penggunaan penicillin tanpa
resep dokter.  Awas, jangan mengobati diri sendiri.
Obat harus digunakan terus sampai habis sesuai dengan
resep.  Jangan berhenti, karena merasa sudah sembuh.
Pemakaian obat dibawah dosis akan menyebabkan sumber
penyakit kebal terhadap penicillin.  Lebih baik
kelebihan sedikit daripada kurang dosis.

Salam,
RM  



The legacy of Fleming - 50 years on 
By Nick Triggle 
BBC News health reporter  



Concern about hospital infections such as MRSA is one
of the most controversial issues in today's NHS. 






About 5,000 people die from such infections out of the
many millions who go into hospitals each year. 

But 70 years ago, the situation was much worse. 

People could often die from a sore throat if the
infection spread to the lungs. 

And pneumonia and post-operative infections killed one
in three of those who got them. 

Within a decade that figure had dropped to just a few
per cent. The reason - penicillin. 

It was the world's first antibiotic when it was
discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, who died 50 years
ago on Friday. 

The scientist, who was working at London's St Mary's
Hospital at the time, stumbled upon the antibiotic
partly by accident in 1928. 

Attention 

During some routine research, he noticed a mould had
developed on a dish on which he had been growing a
bacteria but had forgotten about while he was away on
holiday. 

What grabbed his attention was that the mould seemed
to have destroyed most of the bacteria. 

Sir Alexander extracted the antibacterial substance
from the mould and penicillin was officially found. 


 Penicillin uses 
Bacterial infections - effective against the likes of
meningitis, pneumonia and blood poisoning. 
STIs - Just like the contraceptive pill, penicillin
had an impact on the sexual revolution, helping to
treat syphilis and gonorrhoea. 
War - mass produced by the US to stop soldiers dying
form infection wounds towards the end of World War II.
 

It was another 12 years before the antibiotic was
ready for commercial use following tenacious, but
often overlooked, work by Oxford University scientists
Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and Ernst Chain. 

By the end of World War II, the US was mass producing
the antibiotic and using it to treat soldiers' war
wounds. 

And once peace was restored, the public began
demanding to be given the so-called wonder drug. 

At the end of the 1940s more than 250,000 patients a
month were being prescribed penicillin to treat a
variety of diseases from blood poisoning and pneumonia
to syphilis and gonorrhoea. 

The drug also allowed doctors to carry out
increasingly more invasive treatments, which would
have been impossible before because of infections. 

Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Museum
and author of a biography of the scientist, Penicillin
Man, said it was one of the most important discoveries
in medical history. 

Discovery 

Before Fleming's discovery there really was not
treatment for infectious disease. It was a killer, he
said. 

It seems strange now, but that was the way it was.
When it came onto the market it revolutionised
medicine. 

Mr Brown said it also brought fame to the scientist,
who was born in 1881 in a remote area of Ayrshire in
Scotland. 


 If we are careful I think the use of penicillin will
continue 
Dr Robert Bud, 
Science Museum  

The public really took Fleming to their hearts. He
was unassuming and quiet. It was a case of the little
man who had become a real success. 

Dr Anne Hardy, from London's Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, said Sir Alexander's
discovery, for which he was later knighted and won the
Nobel Prize, also benefited the whole of medical
profession. 

In particular, it transformed public perception of
what medicine could do. For the first time people
became aware of what doctors could really achieve. 

But Dr Hardy said the antibiotic became a victim of
its own success as it was soon over-prescribed and
resistance started building up. 

Resistance 

All antibiotics are used badly and penicillin was no
different. Patients were literally demanding it from
their doctors and they got it, she said. 

By the mid to late 1940s other antibiotics started
coming onto the market to challenge penicillin. 

The major two were streptomycin - effective against
TB, something beyond even the wonder drug's powers -
and cepholosporin. 

But in 1959, four years after Sir Alexander's death,
scientists made a breakthrough in their fight against
antibiotic resistance with the first generation
semi-synthetic