{"id":7629,"date":"2017-09-22T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/22\/common-ear-infections-dont-need-antibiotics-health-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T01:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:01:31","slug":"common-ear-infections-dont-need-antibiotics-health-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7629","title":{"rendered":"Common ear infections don&#039;t need antibiotics, health watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children should not be routinely given antibiotics for ear infections, watchdog says, amid concerns about overuse reducing effectiveness of antibioticsChildren with common ear infections should not be given antibiotics, a health watchdog has said.New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) says parents should treat the infections with paracetamol or ibuprofen instead. It comes a few days after the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention also warned parents that antibiotics are not suitable for many common conditions. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/sep\/22\/common-ear-infections-dont-need-antibiotics-health-watchdog-says\" target=\"_blank\">Common ear infections don&#039;t need antibiotics, health watchdog says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children should not be routinely given antibiotics for ear infections, watchdog says, amid concerns about overuse reducing effectiveness of antibioticsChildren with common ear infections should not be given antibiotics, a health watchdog has said.New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) says parents should treat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}