To move towards only giving antibiotics to people who need them, a professor from Scotland urged the general practitioner to use instant antibiotic test kits on large scales. Judicious, practical and stringent steps are the need of an hour to reduce the prescription of antibiotic drugs and control the growth of resistant bacteria as well as the development of antibiotic-resistance . CRP an acute phase reactant, synthesized by the liver and released into the blood within a few hours after – tissue injury , the start of an infection , or other cause of inflammation . The CRP test can be used together with signs and symptoms and other tests to evaluate the need for an antibiotic prescription.
At present 87% of antibiotics is being prescribed in the community by GPs. This would enable GPs to make an immediate decision as to whether a patient requires antibiotics. Hypothetical case scenario…
