Your family doctor knows best, right? Not always. Many physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for a common springtime ailment that cannot effectively be wiped out with drugs. And dishing out these antibiotics doesn’t just threaten patients with side effects, but also leads to the creation of hard-to-kill superbugs, dangerous bacteria strains that don’t even flinch when antibiotics enter a patient’s system.
In an attempt to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics and to provide better treatment to patients, experts have just issued new guidelines warning doctors to drastically cut back on prescribing antibiotics for sinus infections.
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