Excessive antibiotic prescriptions can harm your
child’s health
A new study suggests that excessive antibiotic
prescriptions for children could resist their ability to fight pathogens, a
microorganism that can cause disease. The excessive intake of
antibiotics can also result in a concrete health impact on
children.
While antibiotics are known for their properties to
fight bacteria and are the most important type of antibacterial agent for
fighting the bacterial infection, a new study suggests that excessive
antibiotic prescriptions for children can harm their health.
Children in low and middle countries (LMICs) are being
prescribed an average of 25 antibiotics during their first five years of life,
which is an excess and could resist their ability to fight pathogens( a
microorganism that can cause disease).
Gunther Fink, the lead author of the study and head of
the Household Economics and Health Systems Research Unit at Swiss TPH, said,
“We knew children in LMICs are sick more often, and we knew antibiotic
prescription rates are high in many countries. What we did not know was how
these elements translate into actual antibiotic exposure–and the results are
rather alarming.”
Antimicrobial
resistance is considered as one of the global health and
development threat today, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Excessive use of antibiotics worldwide is one such factor contributing to the
threat.
Mid-low countries often have children who fall sick
frequently and they visit the hospital only to be overprescribed by
antibiotics.
23.12.2019
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