Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections

An anonymous reader writes "While doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics to treat sinus infections, researchers on Tuesday revealed that amoxicillin, the most commonly prescribed medication for nasal cavity inflammation and sinuses, was just as effective as a dummy pill. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."

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Re:Lets make Antibiotics obsolete

[geekoid]

We've known for years that Doctors have over prescribed Antibiotics for many ailments,

NO WE DO NOT KNOW THAT, please shut the fuck up and keep your popular culture non science views to your self, asshole.,
"simply because people just don't want to feel miserable when they get sick."
What we have hear is an ignorant mother fucker who has lived in a world with antibiotics and has no clue what life was like before them.