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Acne: Common Illness May Be Increased By Usage of Antibiotics for Acne |
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According to experts, the usage of antibiotics for acne may
increase common illness, what it was demonstrated by an
experiment in which a group of individuals that was treated with
antibiotics for acne for more than six weeks. After the
experiment, this group was more than twice as likely to develop
an upper respiratory tract infection within one year as
individuals with acne who were not treated with antibiotics.
The overuse of antibiotics, explain experts, will lead to
resistant organisms and an increase in infectious illness. There
have been, however, few studies about people who have actually
been exposed to antibiotics for long periods.
According to experts, the ideal people to study consequences of
using antibiotics for acne are patients with acne, who use for
long-term antibiotic therapy, representing a unique and natural
population in which to study the effects of long-term |
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antibiotic
use.
A group of experts from the School of Medicine of the University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, identified individuals diagnosed
with acne between the years 1987 and 2002, aged 15 to 35 years,
in a medical database in the United Kingdom (UK).
The researchers searched information such as how often
individuals were likely to see a physician, and compared the
incidence of a common infectious illness, upper respiratory
tract infection (URTI), in individuals treated with antibiotics
for acne and those whose acne was not treated with these
medications.
Experts reported that "within the first year of observation,
15.4 per cent of the patients with acne had at least one URTI,
and within that year, the odds of a URTI developing among those
receiving antibiotic treatment were 2.15 times greater than
among those who were not receiving antibiotic |
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