The Problems with Antibiotics: More Fallout from Killing Your Flora

November 22, 2011

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Pills” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/pills.jpg” alt=”pills” width=”288″ height=”287″ /A new study found that pediatricians are a title=”Antibiotic Prescribing in Ambulatory Pediatrics in the United States” href=”http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/11/04/peds.2011-1337″ target=”_blank”over-prescribing broad spectrum antibiotics/a (which target both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, also known as most bacteria) at an increasing rate. 21% of all pediatric visits ended with a prescription for antibiotics, 50% of which were broad spectrum. For 23% of those visits ending in antibiotics (which accounted for over 10 million visits in total), they were prescribed for conditions that don#8217;t even respond to antibiotics, like asthma, viral infections, flu, allergies, and bronchitis. The bulk of the antibiotics prescribed in these unwarranted situations were broad spectrum, and the bulk of the patients in these situations were younger than not./p
pUgh. Antibiotics clearly have therapeutic merit #8211; a statement some would debate, I#8217;m sure #8211; but I think everyone would agree that prescribing broad spectrum antibiotics for […]

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