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Is antibiotic treatment of chronic sinusitis effective in children?
H W Otten1, J B Antvelink, H Ruyter de Wildt
1Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Academic Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
A double-blind randomized controlled trial on 79 patients aged between 2 and 12 years with chronic sinusitis showed no significant advantage of adding antibiotics to the treatment by sinus lavage. The prognosis after both 6 and 12 weeks was worse for patients with bilateral opaque sinus radiographs. Half of the Branhanmella catarrhalis cultured in this study were beta-lactamase producing organisms, therefore antibiotics prescribed for this group of children should be chosen bearing this in mind.