Antibiotics usually inappropriate in children with gastroenteritis

摘要

The use of antibiotics was not mentioned in this article. Unfortunately, antimicrobial therapy is often used inappropriately in acute enteric infections. Gastroenteritis in children usually is infectious and often caused by viruses. Despite this, antibiotics are prescribed to 8 percent of outpatients one to 18 years of age with acute gastroenteritis, whereas stool cultures are performed in only 3 percent.?, In another study of emergency and urgent care visits in children, 24 percent of visits for acute diarrheal illness resulted in antibiotic prescriptions