Severe skin infections that resist antibiotics have become one of the most common reasons children are hospitalized. A new report shows that in the past decade, there have been a number of shifts in the reasons children are admitted to the hospital. The most notable change in hospital admission data involves severe skin infections, which more than doubled between 2000 and 2009 and now rank as the seventh most common reason for childhood hospitalization.
See: More Children Hospitalized with Staph by Tara Parker-Pope in the August 11, 2011 NY Times.