Antibiotics Highly Effective to Overcome Acute Ear Pain
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Although the antibiotics in children with frequent ear infections is still controversial, but in two recent studies conclude that administration of antibiotics is more effective if the proper diagnosis criteria.
Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Turku, Finland have found that antibiotics are more effective than placebo medication to cope with acute ear infections in children.
In both studies, children who get drug amoxicilin-clavulanate have lower morbidity than children who did not get the drug.
Acute ear infection is a recurrent bacterial infection that generally affects children. This disease can affect anyone, both children from developed countries or developing countries. Acute ear infection is also a reason for the high antibiotic prescription among children in America.
“The study underlines that the importance of antibiotic therapy on certain types of infection. Because it is the most important thing the doctors are doing an accurate diagnosis of symptoms that exist,” said Dr.Alejandro Hoberman, a pediatrician from Pittsburgh who did the research.
Hoberman and Dr.Jerome Klein, a pediatrician from Boston University School of Medicine, said the last decade of this important debate about whether or not to give antibiotics to children who suffer from otitis media or use the strategy of waiting.
The debate is coupled with fears of side effects caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria cause antibiotic treatment in children to be controversy. Moreover, research conducted by Europeans did not expressly mention the criteria for the diagnosis of ear infections because the symptoms are similar to upper respiratory disease.
In a research conducted in Pittsburgh on 291 children aged 6-23 months who suffer from ear infections, the researchers divided the children into two groups. One group received antibiotics and the remainder received a placebo drug, each for 10 days.
In children who received antibiotics, 35 percent began to recover in the second day, 61 percent in the fourth day and 80 percent recovered on the seventh day. Conversely, in children who received placebo, 28 percent experienced healing on the second day, 54 percent in the fourth day and 74 percent on the seventh day.
The researchers in the report also explained that further study is needed to avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics so that drug resistance can be avoided.
