the question is not very clear -do you mean if we limit the duration of antibiotics rather than prolonging them continuously or we just donot keep changing one antibiotic afyer another and dont use injudcious use of antibiotics without the priper culture sensitivity and specially in bacteria which are developing resistance fast like acid fast bacilli dso that first ine hrapies have stopped working and then the second line tharapy is not only costly but very difficult to tolerate with dsevere side effects and worae for the thrsd deline drugs -hence jusicious use of drugs is very impoetant to prevent drug resistnce
Yes, Certainly.
Provided the chosen antibiotic is the appropriate one based on sufficient evidence, preferably documented such as a culture and sensitivity test.
The duration has to be clearly defined as to minimum number of days (or doses), or beyond that till 48 hours after resolution of the clinical problem.
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The less opportunity you give to bacteria be exposed to an antibiotic, the less probability of emergence of resistance, so yes. We must be careful not to undertreat our patients, though.
I would say yes, as I have noticed that the duration for using Amoxi-Clav. combination in treating pharyngitis in pediatrics has changed from 7 days previously to 10 days in the latest guidelines to ensure proper eradication of pathogen.
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