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Antibiotics Don’t Always Treat Agitation
January 20, 2022
It’s been busy out there. I’ve heard a lot about people blaming behavior on bladder infections. Well, sometimes, but all I see is that elders going to the emergency room for agitation often come out with a prescription for antibiotics. What??? So no, antibiotics do not cure agitation. There is the idea that any bladder issue is THE cause of the agitation, and that is dangerous…