Children’s Antibiotics: Avoiding Overuse

2012-02-02T20:52:15-07:00February 2nd, 2012|Blog|

The Phoenix pediatricians at Pediatrix understand a parent’s desire to make their sick child feel better, but prescribing antibiotics may not always be the answer. In fact, in some cases antibiotics can do more harm than good. Giving a child unnecessary antibiotics does three potentially harmful things: It exposes your child to the drug’s potential side effects. It increases the child’s resistance to antibiotics, so [...]