Sentences with phrase «unnecessary use of antibiotics»

Unnecessary use of antibiotics also contributes to antibiotic - resistance.

«We need to expand the number of pathogens that we test for in our food supply, and we need international leadership to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics on industrial farms around the world,» Price says.

To help reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics for common childhood illnesses, parents would benefit from fuller communication from their health care providers, suggests new research published in the National Communication Association's Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Not exact matches

Time to Get Smart about Antibiotic Prescribing; ECDOH Raises Health Threat of Antibiotic Resistance Fueled by Unnecessary Use (11/12/2015)

«It's been estimated that up to half of antibiotic use in humans is unnecessary,» said APIC 2014 President Jennie Mayfield, BSN, MPH, CIC.

The report concludes that half the antibiotics doctors prescribe are not needed, but concedes that much of antibiotic use in animals is also unnecessary.

Unnecessary antibiotic use is one of the leading contributors to antibiotic - resistant infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Using these kinds of tools, we can hopefully reduce unnecessary antibiotic use.»

For children with a common middle - ear problem, a simple procedure with a nasal balloon can reduce the impact of hearing loss and avoid unnecessary and ineffective use of antibiotics, according to a randomized controlled trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Dr Clark also highlighted the potential of the test to tackle antibiotic resistance — the growth of resistant strains of bacteria which can not be treated with antibiotics — by reducing unnecessary or ineffective use of medication.

Conventional medicine certainly needs to curtail its prescriptions for antibiotics, but even if you use antibiotics judiciously you're still exposed to great amounts of antibiotics from the foods you eat, and this is entirely unnecessary.

This means that a lot of cats are receiving unnecessary antibiotics and I am seeing Convenia used frequently in these cases.

This is important, as repeated (and unnecessary) use of antibiotics can cause antibiotic resistance.

This category includes the unnecessary use of steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), deworming drugs, flea and tick treatments (many contain pesticides) and antibiotics (leading to an imbalance of healthy gut flora, also known as dysbiosis).