Antibiotics for persistent cough or wheeze following acute bronchiolitis in children.

CONCLUSIONS: Current evidence is insufficient to inform whether antibiotics should be used to treat or prevent persistent respiratory symptoms in the post-acute bronchiolitis phase. Future RCTs are needed to evaluate the efficacy of antibiotics for reducing persistent respiratory symptoms. This is particularly important in populations with high acute and post-acute bronchiolitis morbidity (e.g. indigenous populations in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA). PMID: 28828759 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28828759?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 22, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: McCallum GB, Plumb EJ, Morris PS, Chang AB Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research