ANTIBIOTIC drugs that are very influential in the fight against infections caused by bacteria. Although the AB effect is good for all ages, AB population Pediatrics need to get special attention because of the excessive tendency.
Clinic doctors met with the child patient of children almost every sunday 1-3 come back with – mostly – the same complaint, namely fever, cough and runny nose. This is a phenomenon that does not occur in Western countries. Young children, especially infants, need a healthy growth without AB if there is no certainty of bacteria infection.
The more concern is that more child population is the age group that does not have any data about using, because it does not / rarely performed as a clinic to test adults. Dose of medicine, is not carried out studies dose-ranging study of determining the dose that is complex.
Although there is no regulation that does not allow research on children around the world, licensing medicines in children is rarely granted specifically by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) United States, strange and not required by the FDA as the licensing terms of marketing. This is true all over the world, as if there are obstacles to study in children.
Special women in Japan are also not allowed (prohibited) is used as the subject of an experiment testing clinic. This raises the absence of data on the two types of people on the drugs. In the case of parents also requested the data when required by the FDA, because they are special to react other than a young population.
Children are also always said that they are not small adults, and has sifat2 which can be very different. This causes the determination of doses in children occur with the calculation umur/12 or body weight / body weight of adult time adult dose.
