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Antibiotics
Antibiotics Not Always Best Bet for Battling Childhood Ear Infections
October 8th, 2007
With cold and flu season right around the corner, many new parents of infants and toddlers will soon be visiting their family pediatrician complaining of painful or recurring ear aches. In most cases, children suffering from ear infections are prescribed Amoxicillin or a similar antibiotic to combat the infection, but when antibiotics fail to stop ear infections from recurring, pediatricians typically recommend a procedure called a tympanostomy. A tympanostomy is a surgical procedure where small holes are sliced into the eardrums and tubes surgically implanted to drain the middle ear of fluid. Recently however, studies by both The Journal of the American Medical...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2007-10-08)
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