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Antibiotic therapy
Recommendations on antibiotic therapy
Do not routinely give antibiotics to children with gastroenteritis.
Give antibiotic treatment to all children:
• with suspected or confirmed septicaemia
• with extra-intestinal spread of bacterial infection
• younger than 6 months with salmonella gastroenteritis
• who are malnourished or immunocompromised with salmonella gastroenteritis
• with Clostridium difficile-associated pseudomembranous enterocolitis, giardiasis,
dysenteric shigellosis, dysenteric amoebiasis or cholera.
For children who have recently been abroad, seek specialist advice about antibiotic therapy.
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