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Why Antibiotics Don't Always Work
Your child has a nagging earache. It hurts them and all you want is to take it away from them. As a baby, these are
even worse and the child doesn’t understand the pain and can’t communicate to you. Should you visit the doctor?
Should you consider obtaining an antibiotic for the pain? Or, should you ride it out and let your child’s immune
system handle the problem? There is a raging debate happening and your doctor will have his own views on it. The
problem is that many children are being over prescribed medications meaning that their bodies are developing a
tolerance for that medication.
IT may seem like a must to give your child medication any time that he or she gets sick. The same goes for your own
well being. The problem with this is that medications are only good to us as long as our bodies have not developed
a tolerance for them. Even the over the counter pain relievers that you and your children are given often can find
themselves in this face when you have taken too much of them.
Your body has been given a remarkable ability to heal itself. The immune system of the body works miracles through
its own means. For example, let’s say that you get the flu. Your body will cause your temperature to rise. This is
its way of killing the virus causing your illness. It will take a lot out of you which is why you feel worn out and
weak. Furthermore, as it fights against the virus, your body builds antibodies that in turn allow it to fight off
the infection. It keeps this around so that if in fact that virus enters the body again, it can fight it off more
effectively and quickly.
The same holds true for the ear infections. Your body’s immune system is working hard to get through it. As it does
this, your child will have pain and he or she will face a fever. But, through careful monitor and pain medications,
he or she will get through it and then have what it takes the next time around to fight it off. This also helps to
keep their resistance to the antibiotic low. If they are not given it in minor cases, they can and will be able to
take it down the road with success for future problems.
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