Antibacterial agents in many places?

Well I was watching an episode of House one day (a very old one - season 1 episode 4) in which House says something along the lines of "We're the ones who created this super bug...we have anti-bacterial hand soaps in every washroom until the bacteria are now just completely resistant"



Yeah I don't remember the full quote, but anyways my question is: Do anti-bacterial hand soaps and sanitizers lower your immunity because you're more susceptible to mutated strains of bacteria that are more resistant? And if so, then why do we do it? I mean, it makes sense to put them in places such as hospitals where everyone should be clean, but how come we even have them in public bathrooms and office buildings, schools, etc.?Antibacterial agents in many places?
actually as you use this antibacterial soap and ect it kills off almost all the germs except for ones resistant to it. if allowed to reproduce they become the dominant strain and the bacteria become slowly more and more resistant to antibacterial soaps and medicine, this eventually produces "super-bugs" resistant to our medicines and almost impsossible to cure. people today as you know are kind of obsessed with antibacterial dispensers and such, their seen as a quick fix to sanitize, and to tell you the truth most people are unaware of this micro-evoloution, actually you can gogle this but you can see an example of this in turburculosis in russian prisions.Antibacterial agents in many places?
His point is that antibacterial soaps have been shown to be worthless. They are no more effective than regular soap. Soap removes and kills, anything else is unnecessary.



Meanwhile when you wash your hands, the antibiotic in the soap enters the environment which could lead to selection for resistance.