Drugged

I read this article today and thought I’d share it since so many of my friends are fellow mommies. 

According to research, Pediatricians in the United States write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions every year for conditions such as the flu and asthma, contributing to potentially dangerous drug resistance.

Giving antibiotics to kids when they aren't needed raises the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections in both the children themselves and society as a whole. 

Betsy Foxman, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor argues, "We think of antibiotics as being wholly beneficial, but they are not very specific, they hit everything in your body. By making our microbes that are supposed to be with us disappear, we can be causing other health problems we don't know about."

I’m so glad Nixon has never needed to see a doctor for any kind of sickness- I guess she had enough of them the first 77 days of her life! She caught a little cold when she was 10 months old (it was mostly just a snotty nose), but I knew that antibiotics weren’t the answer. If only other parents used their common sense….