Medicine Baby Quiz | Does the baby need to take “cephalosporin” as soon as he catches a cold?

Medicine Baby Analysis

Whether children's acute upper respiratory tract infection, commonly known as "cold", should use antibiotics depends on whether there is a bacterial infection and what type of bacterial infection it is.

Currently, more than 90% of colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics such as cephalosporins are only used to fight bacterial infections and have no effect on viruses. If antibiotics are abused, in addition to increasing drug resistance and even producing toxic side effects, they have no effect on treating viral colds. Some parents think that they took antibiotics to treat their colds and recovered quickly, but in fact, this is not the credit of antibiotics. Viral colds are a self-limiting process, and most children can recover by relying on their own resistance, not because of the effect of antibiotics.