Antibiotics

One of the things that I never have gotten used to in Spain is the excessive, in relation to my references, use of antibiotics.

It has gotten better. Initially, when I came here, the auto-medication with antibiotics even for flues were custom. But still this is a source of discussion, even within the family.
Before coming to Spain I remember taking antibiotics on very specific occasions, while here people almost gets offended if they are not given some antibiotics by the doctor. That probably means that the doctor doesn't take the patients pain seriously. (I will spare you the story of when my Spanish wife had a Conjunctivitis in Sweden and was asked to put some teabags on the eyes.)


Anyway, see below a chart from the "Center for Global Development".

Sweden is in the same group as Germany. In Spain the usage of antibiotics per person is twice as high as in Sweden.
As a result, the cases of resistant bacterias is >10 times higher than in Sweden!!!

This, if anything, should make the Spanish rules to change. However, I am inclined to thing that nothing will change :-(

For the complete study, see link (pdf).