News posted on February 08, 2009 06:18
There’s been plenty of media attention the last few years on the
subject of overuse of antibiotics since scientists have found that
infective organisms started developing resistance to common
antibiotics.
Children in the U.S. are very likely to be prescribed antibiotic
prescriptions due to the rate at which they incur ear infections. The
most common reason children visit their pediatricians is for treatment
of ear infections, resulting in 24 million office visits a year, or
35% of all visits.
Data taken from U.S. health plans between 1996 and 2000
related to antibiotic use in children aged 3 months to 3 years
showed that each patient received an antibiotic prescription an
average of 1.89 times per year.
Recent research has shown that chiropractic can prevent the
necessity of either antibiotic use or ear tubes.
Dr. Joan Fallon, a chiropractor who practices in Yonkers, New
York, has published research showing that, after receiving a series of
chiropractic adjustments, nearly 80 percent of the children treated
were free of ear infections for at least the six-month period following
their initial visits (a period that also included maintenance treatments
every four to six weeks).
Use of chiropractic instead of traditional treatment means that
children avoid the general anesthesia required for insertion of the
tubes; it also means that the bacteria causing the ear infection does
not become resistant to the antibiotic.
SOURCE: DEATH BY MEDICINE, Dr. Gary Null, Ph.D., Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D., Martin Feldman, M.D.,
Debora Rasio, M.D., Dorothy Smith, Ph.D., page 7.;http://www.amerchiro.org/media/tips/ear_chiropractic.shtml