Question

Explain why the overprescription of antibiotics by doctors, or the overuse of everyday soaps containing antibiotics, can be a health risk. O The overuse of antibiotics or antibiotic soaps can be a health risk because the repeated exposure to antibiotics can damage human cells. When antibiotics are overused, the repeated exposure triggers mutations in the bacteria that result in resistance. Resistant bacteria will then survive and multiply, reducing the effectiveness of the antibiotic treatment in the future. When antibiotics are overused, susceptible bacteria are constantly being killed off, even when an infection is not present. However, any individual bacteria that are resistant to these antibiotics will survive and multiply, reducing the likelihood that antibiotic treatment will be effective in the future. O The overuse of antibiotic medicines and products like antibiotic soaps gradually weakens a person's cells exposed to the antibiotics. Bacteria then have an easier time infecting the cells over time.

Answer 1

The correct option is: C (When antibiotics are overused susceptible bacteria are constantly being killed off even when an infection is not being present. However any individual bacteria that are resistant to these antibiotics will survive and multiply, reducing the likelihood that antibiotic treatment will be effective in the future)

Explanation: The repititive use of antibiotics will reduce the effectiveness as the organism becomes resistant to it and no more can harm the bacteria and reduce the infection. This is because the bacteria finds its own way to tackle the antibiotic and makes it nonfunctional by changing its configuration or by disintegrating it.