Sinus infections are miserable. Anyone suffering from one wants relief as soon as possible. The tricky thing is, the overwhelming majority of such infections are caused by viruses; only about 2 percent of sinus infections are bacterial. Since viral infections do not respond to antibiotics, having your doctor prescribe an antibiotic is unlikely to help. And a new study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms this: Sinus infection patients treated with the antibiotic amoxicillin were no better off than those given a placebo pill.
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