Nursing and Health Info

Optimum health and disease:

To understand optimal health, we must learn about the disease also because the disease can not exist in the presence of optimal health. If optimal health is a sign of strength and immunity, the disease is the dark contrast is the contrast of light. The beginning, when the deterioration of optimal health. The diseases are generally divided into two categories of infectious diseases can spread from one person to another and not contagious degenerative diseases of different systems and does not spread through contact with another person.

Murderers of the past (contagious)

Around half a century ago, the disease models were different from those prevailing today. At the beginning of most diseases were caused by bacteria, a unicellular organism and reproduce very quickly and easily develop resistance. In the past, when treatment was not effective bacterial diseases are contagious and spreads very mortal words, an affected person to another person in good health and has taken an epidemic form as in the case of typhoid fever, diphtheria, fever, malaria, measles, tuberculosis, etc.

Drug resistance in bacteria:

Penicillin is a miracle drug in the past and has changed the history of drug development. Born into a mold, it is a competition between bacteria and other organisms whose secretion had a destructive effect on bacteria. Subsequently, the bacteria have developed resistance and once a wonder drug, now that is not necessary and has been discarded.

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