Unnecessary Antibiotics

It’s very close to being a post-antibiotic era where the bacterial infections that were once easily cured by the drugs are becoming resistant and life threatening. The doctors are prescribing far too many antibiotics. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 262 million people received prescriptions for antibiotics from 2010 to 2011, of which 30% were unnecessary. Data was assessed from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) and published in JAMA.

Experts determined if the antibiotic prescriptions were appropriate based on national guidelines. An estimated 506 antibiotic …read more