A related study of the prescription record, more antibiotics are often prescribed for pain even though antiviral influenza was more useful. What's worse, the antivirus is only given to one of the five patients who desperately need the drug.
Although sometimes helpful antibiotics to fight infections caused by the flu, but it is often the prescription is not required. Antibiotics are only needed if the disease is caused by bacteria.
Thus is revealed the doctors at the center of the control and prevention of diseases in the United States written in Clinical Infectios Disease. The study also found that doctors still often prescribe antibiotics. Though not a wise use of antibiotics can lead to the formation of antibiotic resistant bacteria so when absolutely necessary, the bacteria will be hard to beat by antibiotics.
Michael G Ison, doctors from Northwestern University said efforts rational use of antibiotics still be pursued, but that is not a wise use is still common in patients with influenza. According to him, prescribe antiviral drugs have minimal risk in the formation of bacterial resistance.
In this new study, doctors perform analysis on thousands of medical records of thousands of patients in the five states. A total of 6,766 people were known to have acute respiratory illness, a third apparently was influenza. However, only 15 percent were prescribed antiviral drugs, while 30 percent are still prescribed antibiotics.
Though the benefits of treatment can be felt in the patients that received antiviral treatment. Plus, antiviral treatment has no adverse side effects and may reduce the likelihood of the need antibiotics in the future.
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