Similarly, the abstract notes that children enrolled in childcare before age 12 months had experienced 0.5 − 0.7 more infections than peers enrolled at 3 years, cumulatively, by the time they got to age 6 years. To be sure, that certainly corresponds to more than one actual infection, since “infection” in this paper means an infection serious enough to result in an antimicrobial (usu. an antibiotic) being prescribed, but is not an enormous effect.
I wonder why you conclude this ‘is not an enormous effect’. Maybe it’s differences in antibiotic usage between countries, and you’re from a country where it’s more common? Because for me it seems like a really big deal to have like 1 in 2 kids needing an extra treatment of antibiotics before they’re 6 years old.
I think Denmark has lower general usage of antibiotics than the United States for example (I think 70% as much, if I just divide the Defined Daily Dose by the population.) And I guess the gap is bigger for smaller issues, as I expect more critical situations to always result in antibiotics usage whether you’re in the US or Denmark.
I’m not an expert in this field, nor did I check the statistics carefully, this is mainly based on the feeling I get when foreigners come to the Netherlands (60% DDD per person antibiotics usage compared to Denmark) and complain that they don’t get antibiotics when they get the sniffles.
I wonder why you conclude this ‘is not an enormous effect’. Maybe it’s differences in antibiotic usage between countries, and you’re from a country where it’s more common? Because for me it seems like a really big deal to have like 1 in 2 kids needing an extra treatment of antibiotics before they’re 6 years old.
I think Denmark has lower general usage of antibiotics than the United States for example (I think 70% as much, if I just divide the Defined Daily Dose by the population.) And I guess the gap is bigger for smaller issues, as I expect more critical situations to always result in antibiotics usage whether you’re in the US or Denmark.
I’m not an expert in this field, nor did I check the statistics carefully, this is mainly based on the feeling I get when foreigners come to the Netherlands (60% DDD per person antibiotics usage compared to Denmark) and complain that they don’t get antibiotics when they get the sniffles.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411919121#supplementary-materials