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A minority dispensed antibiotics before recommending suitable over-the-counter medicines. These high rates were exacerbated by patient pressure. There were issues with the length of the questionnaire and some of the phraseology, which will be addressed in the main study. Conclusion: There were ...
Self-medication (SM) with antibiotics is one of the inappropriate HSBs people express when they feel ill. However, many developing countries have poor antibiotic dispensing laws7. By law in Nigeria, antibiotics are not to be purchased over the counter8. The consequence of inappropriate HSBs and...
Self-medication, an important driver of antibiotic overuse, is common, particularly in developing countries where antibiotics can be bought over the counter in pharmacies or in local market places, but it occurs also in Europe, mainly in southern and eastern countries [26]. Antibiotics are used ...
Self-medication, an important driver of antibiotic overuse, is common, particularly in developing countries where antibiotics can be bought over the counter in pharmacies or in local market places, but it occurs also in Europe, mainly in southern and eastern countries [26]. Antibiotics are used ...
Over the next few days, microbiota composition shifts to predominantly anaerobic bacteria [24]. In pre- term neonates, however, gut colonization by anaerobes is delayed, likely due to delayed gut and immune system maturation, greater exposure to the hospital environ- ment, and greater exposure to...
but we bear the responsibility for accelerating it. We did this by squandering antibiotics with a heedlessness that now seems shocking. Penicillin was sold over the counter until the 1950s. In much of the developing world, most antibiotics still are. In the United States, 50 per...
Self-medication, as a form of self-care, is a common practice worldwide, and often involves the use of both over-the-counter and prescription-only medicines, including antibiotics, anti-malarials and others. Increasing concerns over the global emergence
S. aureus has become resistant to various antibiotics over the past years especially to the beta-lactam class of antibiotics [4]. Emergence of methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin resistant S. aureus (VRSA) constitutes a serious global public health prob- lem. Currently, VRSA ...
For around 25% of the children, diarrhoea had continued for more than a week, and the majority of the children (over 70%) had diarrhoeal episodes more than 3 times per 24 h upon admission. Although the majority of children with watery diarrhoea enrolled in this study were treated with ...