The most potent antibacterial drug contained in human sweat

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Some diseases such as gonorrhea and tuberculosis are no longer susceptible to eradicate with antibiotics available today. So now scientists are trying to find a way to make a stronger antibiotics. Who would have thought the drug was apparently found in human sweat.

Research published Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences was conducted by scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the University of Strasbourg in France and the University of Edinburgh in the UK. The researchers analyzed the chemical compound named dermcidin which are found in human sweat.

Dermcidin controlled and issued by the sweat glands. This compound is very easy adaptable for attack mushrooms and bacteria. Chemical compounds that generally target the cell wall so that bacteria can develop a resistance or immunity. But because Dermcidin easily adaptable, these chemicals are suitable to cope it.

Bacteria that enter in the human skin halted due to the presence of zinc contained in sweat. Dermcidin then removed and fiddling with the water content and particles that across the cell membrane. Because could not move, bacteria and mushrooms helpless against these chemicals.

"Antibiotics are not only available on our own body to produce a substance that efficiently fend off bacteria, mushrooms and viruses. Now we know in detail how the workings of the natural antibiotic. we can use it to help fight infections more effectively than traditional antibiotics," said researcher Ulrich Zachariae as reported Counsel and Heal.

Some diseases caused by bacterial infection is known not immune combated with antibiotics, for example: the tuberculosis bacteria and Staphylococcus aureus. Because already immune, various antibiotics were always updated. To date, there have been 1700 of natural types of antibiotics in the world.