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- Many young children have episodes of wheezing and coughing.
- These episodes often lead to emergency or hospital visits.
- Doctors tested an antibiotic for wheezing in young children.
- The antibiotic did not help most of the children.
- Many children in the test had viruses in their airways.
- Some children also carried bacteria in their nose.
- The test was stopped early by the doctors.
- Antibiotics can cause resistance and harm immune development.
Difficult words
- wheeze — a noisy breath sound when breathing is hardwheezing
- episode — a short period when a problem happensepisodes
- antibiotic — a medicine that kills or stops bacteria
- virus — a small germ that can make people sickviruses
- bacterium — a very small living germ, not visiblebacteria
- resistance — when medicines stop working against germs
- immune development — how the body's immune system grows and changes
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Discussion questions
- Do you or your child ever wheeze or cough?
- Have you ever taken an antibiotic?
- Would you visit a doctor for wheezing?
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