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The objective of this study was to assess whether amoxicillin-clavulanate accelerates the resolution of acute tube otorrhea.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Design and setting.Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in outpatient setting.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Patients.Volunteer sample of basically healthy 6- to 72-month-old children with a tympanostomy tube. Eligibility required having acute tube otorrhea of &amp;lt;48 hours\u2019 of duration and no prior treatment within the last 2 weeks. The mean age of the participants was 25 months; they had a history of 3 episodes of acute otitis media (median), and 99% had manifestations of a concomitant respiratory infection. Of 79 randomized patients, 7 were withdrawn because of adverse events; 66 patients completed the study.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Interventions.Amoxicillin-clavulanate (N = 34; 45 mg\/kg\/d) or matching placebo (N = 32) for 7 days and daily suction of middle-ear fluid through tympanostomy tube.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Main outcome measures.Duration of acute tube otorrhea and duration of bacterial growth in middle-ear fluid.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results.The median duration of tube otorrhea was significantly shorter in amoxicillin-clavulanate than in the placebo group (3 vs 8 days). At the end of the 7-day medication period, tube otorrhea was resolved in 28 of 34 children receiving amoxicillin-clavulanate compared with 13 of 32 children on placebo (treatment-control difference 41%; 95% confidence interval, 20%\u201363%; number needed to treat, 2.4). The median duration of bacterial growth in middle-ear fluid was shorter in amoxicillin-clavulanate than in the placebo group (1 vs 8 days).<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusions.Oral antibiotic treatment significantly accelerates the resolution of acute tube otorrhea by reducing bacterial growth in middle-ear fluid.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.111.5.1061","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,14]],"date-time":"2004-08-14T00:43:47Z","timestamp":1092444227000},"page":"1061-1067","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["Antibiotic Treatment of Acute Otorrhea Through Tympanostomy Tube: Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study With Daily Follow-up"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"111","author":[{"given":"Aino","family":"Ruohola","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Pediatrics"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Terho","family":"Heikkinen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Pediatrics"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Olli","family":"Meurman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microbiology"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tuomo","family":"Puhakka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Otorhinolaryngology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Niklas","family":"Lindblad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Otorhinolaryngology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Olli","family":"Ruuskanen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Pediatrics"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2003,5,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021121003374592100_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dowell SF, Marcy M, Phillips WR, Gerber MA, Schwartz B. 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