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Polish scientists have produced a natural antibiotic effective in the fight against microorganisms that cannot be dealt with by traditional antibiotics. The drug has already helped many sick people.
In the case of cuts and serious wounds, bacteria residing on our skin are fought by the body’s natural immune mechanisms. However, if the number of bacteria is too large, they are particularly resistant or the body is weakened, they multiply rapidly. In Poland, 400 suffer from poorly healing wounds. people. Wounds ulcerate due to infections with bacteria that become resistant to the available antibiotics. Patients struggle with such diseases for many years.
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Natural antibiotic
The creator of the natural antibiotic, prof. Szopa-Skórkowski, a biotechnologist from the University of Wrocław, tells about many patients who were helped by his invention. – In a 65-year-old patient from Wrocław, who had been unsuccessfully treated for three years due to a very extensive varicose leg ulcer, with an infection of an antibiotic-resistant blue oil stick, after six days of using our preparation, the infection resolved and the wound began to heal. After the surgical removal of the corn on the toe, a patient from Poznań developed an infection with an extremely nasty bacterium – staphylococcus aureus. The very painful wound was about 1 cm2. The patient was treated with antibiotics for several months. Unsuccessfully. After two days of using the natural antibiotic, the pain subsided and the wound began to heal, the professor lists. Research on the creation of a flax gel lasted three years and cost PLN 2 million. Earlier, scientists from Wrocław used genetically modified linen to create a fabric for dressings of difficult-to-heal wounds. Linen dressings were tested in one of the hospitals in Wrocław. Their effectiveness surprised even the inventors themselves.
Antibiotic resistance
According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. In the European Union, approximately 25 patients die each year due to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Antibiotics, discovered in the XNUMXth century and called a miracle drug, have already saved the lives and health of many patients. Today they are losing their power, and this is because we have started to abuse them. They are very often unnecessarily used in viral infections causing a runny nose, cough or flu. In addition, bacteriological diagnostics is rarely performed to select the appropriate antibiotic that works against specific bacteria, and even if the appropriate antibiotic is administered, the patient often stops the treatment prematurely before the pathogenic bacteria are eliminated.
Antibiotics are also used in glaze joints, paints and cleaning agents. Although EU regulations prohibit their use in breeding poultry or other animals, food producers bypass these regulations by using the so-called medicated feed.
Due to the long-term and inadequate use of drugs (e.g. wrong doses, inadequate treatment time), microorganisms with genes immunizing them against antibiotics survive in our body. Bacteria are able to pass these genes on to each other, making the entire strain resistant to the antibiotic.
There is no chance of new antibiotics emerging in the near future. Only two have arrived in the last 20 years. Most of the available drugs were created in the 50s and 70s, because today it is not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to introduce new antibiotics to the market. The cost of such a venture is about $ 800 million, and bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to these drugs, making them worthless.
Linen as an antibiotic
A new weapon has appeared in the war against antibiotic resistance over the years. Scientists from the University of Wrocław have genetically modified flax to enhance its natural bactericidal properties.
– We have developed a special preparation of an alternative antibiotic for dermatological applications and a dietary supplement supporting natural immunity equipped with a wide spectrum of antibacterial and antifungal compounds, including phenylpropanoids, sulfur amino acids and glutathione, carotenoids and polyamines. Such a spectrum of various compounds gives unprecedented possibilities to counteract bacterial and fungal infections complicating the treatment of skin diseases. Thus, this product offers the possibility of future protection against rapidly mutating pathogenic microorganisms – says Prof. Szopa-Skórkowski, president of the Linum Foundation. The preparation developed by the Foundation with bactericidal properties against skin diseases based on genetically modified flax is intended for use on chronic wounds, in particular those resulting from venous ulcers, atherosclerosis, diabetic foot syndrome and bedsores, as well as less common chronic immunological wounds, hematological wounds and cancer ulcers.
Treatment with linen – advantages
The most important advantages of the preparation are higher efficiency thanks to the innovative composition based on new types of linen previously unavailable on the market and lower side effects. Current antibiotics require the parallel use of protective preparations in order to protect the intestinal bacterial flora, while the proposed agent containing natural compounds will not require the use of protective agents. – Antimicrobial compounds in flax are not toxic to human cells. For the first time, therefore, there is a great possibility of constructing an antibiotic on the fly, and in addition easily and in a short time. We have a gel that can kill even the most aggressive strains of the blue oil stick responsible for most nosocomial infections – says Prof. Jan Szopa Skórkowski. In 2010, during the international scientific conference International Conference on Antimicrobial Research in Spain, which was devoted to the search for substances produced by plants with anti-infectious properties, it was found that only two scientific reports concerned deliberate changes in plant metabolism leading to the synthesis of antibacterial and antifungal substances. Both reports concerned modern varieties of flax obtained by scientists from Wrocław.
Information on the purchase of the antibacterial gel is available on the Foundation’s website: www.leczenielnem.pl