Friday, February 17, 2012

Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections

An anonymous reader writes "While doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics to treat sinus infections, researchers on Tuesday revealed that amoxicillin, the most commonly prescribed medication for nasal cavity inflammation and sinuses, was just as effective as a dummy pill. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/dDg17Ot4sqA/antibiotics-are-useless-in-treating-most-sinus-infections

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