Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Infection Debate

Are children taking antibiotics too often for ear infections?

Amplify’d from www.altmeds.com

The debate about ear infections and antibiotics

We parents are doing a better job of not demanding antibiotics for every childhood illness, according to a study in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that antibiotic prescriptions for upper respiratory infections (including ear infections) dropped 36 percent from 1995 to 2006 in children under age 5.
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