Doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics to help treat a cough, but a new study shows the drugs won't help reduce the severity or duration of coughing - even if a bacterial infection is the culprit. Lower respiratory tract infections that cause coughing have the potential to...
Doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics to help treat a cough, but a new study shows the drugs won’t help reduce the severity or duration of coughing — even if a bacterial infection is the culprit.
“But not everyone has easy access at an initial visit to an X-ray, which may be the reason clinicians still give antibiotics without any other evidence of a bacterial infection,” Merenstein said in a Georgetown news release.To see if antibiotics make any difference, researchers tracked their use in people presenting with lower respiratory tract infections.
It also took the same amount of time for people to get over their infection, whether or not they got an antibiotic — about 17 days.Overuse of antibiotics is increasing the risk that dangerous bacteria will become resistant to the drugs, researchers noted.
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