Only 10 percent of adult sore throat cases are caused by bacteria, but 60 percent of these patients are given antibiotics.
When people seek medical attention for sore throats there is often nothing doctors can do for them. Only 10 percent of such cases in adults are caused by bacteria and thus treatable with antibiotics. The remainder are viral infections against which the pills are utterly useless. And yet, according to research published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, 60 percent of U.S. patients who enter with complaints of sore throat exit with prescriptions for antibiotics. To be fair, doctors have become somewhat more prudent in their prescribing. Thanks to the educational efforts of groups like the Centers for Disease Control, antibiotic prescription rates for sore throats dropped from an alarming 80 percent to a still excessive 70 percent in the early 1990s. It’s a start. They dropped again around 2000 to 60 percent, but that was it. They’ve plateaued there for the past decade, still six times what they should be if only folks with actual strep throat were going home with bottles of pills. Situation in India is also not good. more
When people seek medical attention for sore throats there is often nothing doctors can do for them. Only 10 percent of such cases in adults are caused by bacteria and thus treatable with antibiotics. The remainder are viral infections against which the pills are utterly useless. And yet, according to research published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, 60 percent of U.S. patients who enter with complaints of sore throat exit with prescriptions for antibiotics. To be fair, doctors have become somewhat more prudent in their prescribing. Thanks to the educational efforts of groups like the Centers for Disease Control, antibiotic prescription rates for sore throats dropped from an alarming 80 percent to a still excessive 70 percent in the early 1990s. It’s a start. They dropped again around 2000 to 60 percent, but that was it. They’ve plateaued there for the past decade, still six times what they should be if only folks with actual strep throat were going home with bottles of pills. Situation in India is also not good. more
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For simple sore throat Ferrum Phos 3x is very effective. If accompanied with fever and redness of throat then Belladona 30 ( 6-8 small pills) can be taken three to four times . more
Oct 08
Over the counter homeopathic remedy for sore throats is called Tonsilat - available at any good homeopathic chemist in Delhi and very effective more
Oct 07
