Guide To Preventing And Treating Periostitis

Course Of Antibiotics

Sometimes periostitis is caused by an infection or underlying disease. It is necessary to treat the patient with a course of antibiotics so the infection is killed, and it cannot spread further into the bone or to other parts of the body. Infections are dangerous and can kill healthy tissue and bone. Additionally, if the patient needs to have surgery to either remove infected or dead tissue or to address a more chronic condition, they will need to take antibiotics to make sure an infection does not take hold. Hospitals are full of ways to get an infection, even if the patient did not go in with one. Therefore, patients may be given prophylactic antibiotics to reduce the chance of any complications because of the surgery. And, if a patient is at a higher risk for infection, antibiotics may be used.

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