Antibiotics cough do not need!

  Do I need to take antibiotics for a cough? The speed of getting rid of the cough does not depend on antibiotics, set the British scientists from Cardiff University. Report on the work of the group of experts under the leadership of Chris Butler published in the European Respiratory Journal.

Specialists studied cough medicine . The experiment, which was attended by 3, 4000 patients with acute cough from 13 European countries has shown that doctors often leading receiving patients complaining of cough, the use of prescribed antibiotics , Focusing mainly on the color of phlegm.

Thus, patients whose allocated sputum green or yellow, doctors prescribed antibiotics for cough   three times more likely than patients with colorless sputum or her absence.

The researchers noted that the study results support the assumption that if cough   patients was not related to any additional pathology, you are alone, without the use of antibiotics   and other medications.

In addition, as patients secrete mucus, and patients with dry cough, the rate of recovery was independent of antimicrobial therapy.

Treatment and prevention

Go back to the main page