When your child’s doctor prescribes amoxicillin for your child, they will tell you the dosage they recommend. The doctor will decide this dosage based on many factors, including your child’s ...

A doctor treating a premature baby has defended the decision not to give him antibiotics the day before he died. Two-month-old Ben Condon died in Bristol Children's Hospital in April 2015 after ...

Background: High dose (70 to 90 mg/kg/day) amoxicillin is recommended as first line therapy of acute otitis media (AOM) in geographic areas where drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae is prevalent.

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary ...

Antibiotics given during infancy produce changes in the microbiome that may raise the risk for childhood asthma by 30%, suggested two posters presented on February 28 at the American Academy of ...