14 Ocak 2011 Cuma

Antibiotics Best Treatment for Ear Infections in Toddlers, Study Finds

Many American children with otitis media infections treated with antibiotics. But for children with mild symptoms, clinical guidelines for the U.S. usually reserves the right antibiotic to children without symptoms, watchful waiting recommend that you develop over time. In contrast. Responding to concerns about antibiotics, doctors in many European countries in almost all cases of middle ear infections in children waiting to be aware to follow a strategy Conflicting results in previous studies comparing the two strategies, and definition of middle ear infections because of differences between the studies, the authors of the study has to say.

These results appear in the January issue of 13 New England Journal of Medicine.

NEJM study, researchers randomly amoxicillin-clavulanate or placebo for 10 days with strict criteria for diagnosis of acute otitis media, with an age of 291 children between 6 and 23 months is set. It is those in the treatment group compared with the placebo group of these children and found that a substantial reduction in the severity and duration of symptoms. The study's authors, these results side effects of antibiotics and the potential emergence of antimicrobial resistance must be balanced against concerns about the attention.

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