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Old 08-15-2005, 19:49   #1
MAB32
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Triple antibiotic...

Docs,

I hope you can answer this one.

Say you use antibiotic ointment on a burn (The regional "Burn Center" just happens to be at Akron Children's Hospital and they are ranked one of the top 5 in the country for burns. They have switched to using Bacitracin rather than Silvadane (?) altogether.) If you use it for say a three day period on a first and second degree burn when you are suppose to be using it until completely healed, would the Bacitracin, hypothetically speaking that is, cause resistant bacteria to develope. Meaning, that when you start it up again it will not be as effective as before in preventing infection?

Trust me when I say that I do not come up with these questions daydreaming at work.

I might be comparing apples to oranges here but I'm thinking it is possible just like the intermittent use of oral and injectable antibiotics instead of taking them the full course.
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