zinc added as an adjuvant to standard antibiotics may bring about a revolution.

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A study conducted by a groups of doctors in India claim that 10 mg zinc added to standard antibiotics may help infants between 7 days and 120 days old overcome severe life-threatening bacterial infections. The findings, published in the journal Lancet suggest that zinc could become an inexpensive and easily accessed micronutrient to improve treatment outcomes in such infections and thus reduce infant mortality. Thus the new therapy may be taken as a new strategy to save babies. It would invariably be a blessing especially to the new born babies of the underdeveloped and developing nations where infant mortality rate is still now very high and the governments are silent spectators and or are helpless as they cannot afford high-priced sophisticated antibiotics free of cost to the poor sufferers due to paucity of funds and the unfortunate people too, being too much poor cannot provide those costly antibiotics essential for the recovery of their babies. Thus the role of zinc added as an adjuvant to standard antibiotics may be a new revolution in the history of medical science. Isn’t it?