Antibiotics and ear infections: do they really work?

When children get ear infections, antibiotics are most commonly prescribed.  In fact, ear infections are the top reason antibiotics are given to children.  But how much do they really help?

The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that the majority of the antibiotics prescribed for children's ear infections do not actually work.  To be more specific, there are about 10 million prescriptions given each year for ear infections, and between 8.5 million and 9.5 million of those prescriptions did not help the child.

Well, what about the pain?  Most parents hurry to the doctor thinking that a round of antibiotics will help their child with the pain of an ear infection.  However, anitbiotics have no effect on the pain for the first 24 hours of dosing.

Antibiotics also pose a threat to children in the long run if they are frequently used.  Everyone carries microscopic bacteria in their body that antibiotics kill.  However, using antibiotics causes only the stronger, more resistant forms of bacteria to survive and reproduce.  This means that the next time the child is sick, stronger, harsher, and more expensive antibiotics will need to be taken to kill the bacteria.  This is a cycle that repeats as long as the child is being given antibiotics.  Yikes.  Maybe a round of antibiotics isn't the fix-all.

from :www.examiner.com

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