How much do your medicine consumption
and meat intake contribute towards your and the global antibiotic footprint?
Join the effort to help the world by reducing your antibiotic footprint.
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Getting to know antibiotics
(Tap to see which antibiotics people usually use to treat different symptoms)
Norfloxacin
to treat
diarrhea
Amoxycillin
to treat
sore throat
Tetracycline
to treat acne
or diarrhea
Erythromycin
to treat
sore throat
Ampicillin
to treat
sore throat
Clindamycin
to treat acne
or abscess
Antibiotics are medicines that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria
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Antibiotics are now used widely and often times unnecessarily. This
causes the problem of drug-resistant bacteria.
Before
taking antibiotics
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While
taking antibiotics
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After frequent use
of antibiotics
=
Drug-resistant bacteria.
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In general, antibiotics are used
in two ways
1. Oral consumption
or injection by humans
2. Oral Consumption
or injection by farm animals
These are the key factors that could lead
to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria.
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Antibiotic Footprint
Calculator
The antibiotic footprint calculator estimates the amount of both antibiotics
that you consumed directly and antibiotics that uses to raise the animals
you consume.
Do you want to know how big
your 'antibiotic footprint' is?