The Role of Antibiotics in Meningitis

The general recommendation is triaxone, for example, to treat empirically. With the caveat being that if you have a positive urinalysis, but you have negative inflammatory markers, the recommendation from the guidelines That you should actually treat them with oral antibiotics. If you are saying these children at home, you have to ensure that someone's following up the culture, you know, and sometimes they get called to the emergency.