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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new guidelines for the use of antibiotics to treat ear infections in infants and children. Related: Doctors issue new guidelines to treat ear infections Middle ear infections are the most common infection for which antibiotics are prescribed for children in the United States. With antibiotic resistance on the rise, the new recommendations hope to decrease the amount of antibiotics prescribed while pairing a ‘watch and wait’ approach with the use of over-the-counter pain relievers.According to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, ear infections are the most commonly diagnosed childhood illness in the U.S., with more than three out of four kids having at least one ear infection by the time they are 3 years old. Many ear ‘infections’ are not actually infections, but fluid that has built up behind the eardrum, which may or may not lead to an infection if left untreated. Parents have many at-home options to help prevent fluid bu...
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Summertime trips to the lake or pool can be fun, but sometimes they can result in painful ear infections. One viewer emailed in this question:Dear Dr. Manny, My kid...
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The seven-strain pneumonia vaccine used in the U.S. beginning in 2000 has prevented 168,000 hospitalizations for the disease each year since, and its effectiveness s...
Is your kid sick again? Kids get sick a lot, about six to eight times each year with the common cold alone. And for some parents, herbal remedies are a natural alter...
Hearing loss is one of the most common disorders affecting aging Americans.Approximately 18 percent of American adults aged 45-64 years, 30 percent of adults aged 65...
The health clinics in pharmacies and other retail stores may be convenient, but they may also take a bite out of the traditional doctor-patient relationship, a new s...
Doctors need to give antibiotics to more than 12,000 people with acute respiratory infections to prevent just one of them from being hospitalized with pneumonia, acc...
Contrary to popular diet advice, chewing gum may not help people eat less or lose weight, new research suggests.In fact, the study, published in the April issue of t...
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It's estimated that half of all children under the age of 1 will experience a middle ear infection, according to the Cleveland Clinic.Seventy-five percent of kids wi...
Kids whose parents smoke are more likely to get ear infections and have hearing problems, according to a new review paper.When moms lit up, kids were also almost twi...
The benefits of treating kids' ear infections with antibiotics may not always outweigh the costs in side effects and dollars spent, suggests a new review of more tha...
If you think your kids are sick a lot during the school year, that’s because they are. Children in day care or in school can have as many as eight to 12 colds a year...
They are certainly the most common reason parents bring their kids to the doctor, but ear infections in young children are on the decline – and researchers think it ...
It's the middle of the night, or the weekend, and you're headed to the emergency room with a child in tears over ear pain. As a mom or dad, you've probably been thro...
About one in four parents have taken their kids to a clinic at a chain pharmacy or other retail store for health care, a new study suggests.The study surveyed more t...
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