5/31/16 The Journal of Pediatrics TAKE-HOME MESSAGE Women completed a questionnaire 12 months post delivery to evaluate the association between substance and mode of infant feeding with risk of infant otitis media and diarrhea during the first year of life. The risk of otitis media in infants fed only breast milk was highest in children […]
Procedure may be an alternative to antibiotics, drainage tubes TUESDAY, July 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A nasal balloon can effectively treat otitis media with effusion in children, preventing unnecessary and ineffective treatment with antibiotics, according to a new study published online July 27 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Ian Williamson, […]
J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2014 Jun;114(6):436-47. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2014.094. Steele KM Abstract CONTEXT: Childhood acute otitis media (AOM) is highly prevalent. Its usual sequela of middle ear effusion (MEE) can lead to conductive hearing loss, for which surgery is commonly used. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) protocol on MEE resolution […]
Principles for Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing Lauri Hicks, DO Disclosures|November 19, 2013 Hello. I’m Lauri Hicks, medical director of CDC’s Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work program. Did you know that ear infection, specifically acute otitis media (AOM), leads to more antibiotic prescriptions than any other syndrome? Just this year, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) […]