No lasting benefit to tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections
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12 May 2021No lasting benefit to tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the ensuing two years compared with giving oral antibiotics to treat ear infections, a randomized trial led by UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh pediatrician-scientists determined.
