The usage of antibiotics is a very common practice. At the same time, misuse of antibiotics is also on the increase. This has been thought of by the great Alexander Fleming, Professor of bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London, who discovered penicillin and he has mentioned in his lectures very earlier. The following points are even now important: 1. Choose the correct infection to be treated - proper diagnosis before treatment.
2. Choose the correct dosage- Too little dosage of antibiotics is dangerous. 3. Choose the correct duration- short period of usage is absolute to be avoided. Nowadays just because the fever is not subsiding, without applying the knowledge to diagnose the condition, simply changing the antibiotic to higher spectrum is becoming the order of the day. Recently a child of two years being treated in another country but related to my patient here, without…
