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Experts Say Stop Antibiotics For Ear Infections

  • March 02, 2004

It's about time! About 10 million prescriptions each year are written for ear infections in children of all ages and now, finally, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Practice are getting ready to formally approve later this spring a recommendation that doctors stop treating most ear infections in children with antibiotics. The bulk of studies have found the antibiotics do very little for a child's ear infection pain and that most infections clear up without...