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Acne: Common Illness May Be
Increased By Usage of
Antibiotics for Acne
by
Hector Milla
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
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 treatment".
Article written by Hector Milla,
editor of
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