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7 May 2007

Ear Infections Usually Clear Up On Their Own…without Antibiotics

As many as two-thirds of the parents of children with ear infections who went 48 hours without filling a prescription for antibiotics never filled their prescriptions.

The children who did not receive antibiotics recovered at the same rate as children who started taking them immediately.

source: The Journal of the American Medical Association