When your child’s doctor prescribes amoxicillin for your child, they will tell you the dosage they recommend. The doctor will decide this dosage based on many factors, including your child’s ...

They said that "no rationale" existed for the treatment of children with sore throats with antibiotics. The team recommended that GPs only use penicillin in children with sore throats when they ...

Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis is a cost-saving alternative to surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary ...

For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome data, treatment failure at 12 months occurred in 34% of those who received antibiotics compared with 7% of those who underwent appendectomy ...

Treatment guidelines for children hospitalized for severe malnutrition include routine administration of antibiotics; however, there is no consensus as to whether antibiotics are indeed helpful in ...