Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Alarming rise in children's resistance to antibiotics -Malathy Iyer

Alarming rise in children's resistance to antibiotics -Malathy Iyer

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Jun 11, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 11, 2017
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: For every 100 hospitalised pediatric patients across India who may need a common antibiotic called ampicillin to fight infections, chances are it won't help 95 of them. In 75% of hospitalised children, especially those younger than one month old, another common antibiotic, gentamycin, may not work.

The reason, according a recent study by pediatricians of Apollo Hospital in Navi Mumbai, is that antibiotic resistance has risen to alarming levels among India's youngest.

The resistance occurs when a bacterium becomes so powerful that antibiotics fail to check its growth. The main cause for resistance is overuse of antibiotics. The study's authors Dr Dhanya Dharmapalan and Dr Vijay Yewale presented their findings at a conference in Madrid last month, suggesting setting up an expert group at corporation or district levels to track antibiotic use.

"Resistance levels are so high among neonates (less than a month old) and pediatric patients that the government should at least track sale and use of some high-end antibiotics like colistin and vancomycin," said Dr Dharmapalan.

The study, published in the March edition of the Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, looked at 50,545 reports of blood culture conducted across India's neonatal and pediatric ICUs over 15 years. "Almost a third of these samples had microbes, with staphylococcus aureus and klebsiella pneumoniae being the most common," said Dr Yewale, former president of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. The review found staphylococcus aureus was resistant to most first-line antibiotics like erythromycin (53% of the cases).

Please click here to read more.

The Times of India, 11 June, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/alarming-rise-in-childrens-resistance-to-antibiotics/articleshow/59089940.cms


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close