The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency distribution of antibiotic therapy according to lumbar puncture outcome in hospitalized children. This study was conducted on 94 children undergoing lumbar puncture. All data were extracted from medical records. Administration of primary treatments and initial diagnosis including febrile convulsion, meningitis, and encephalitis in these patients were based on a physician's opinion. The majority of subjects were diagnosed with febrile convulsion. Antibiotic treatment before lumbar puncture was taken by 58 children. After lumbar puncture, 35 children discontinued antibiotic therapy, two patients were switched to another antibiotic treatment and 21 subjects continued antibiotic medication. In addition, 36 children did not take antibiotics. Positive PCR was found in four cases from the encephalitis group. After lumbar puncture, antibiotic treatment was continued in 23 cases, whereas administration of antibiotics could be justified only in four cases based on positive PCR. Given that antibiotic treatment of our subjects was initiated prior to lumbar puncture but it was changed in two cases and continued in 21 cases after the medical procedure, conducting lumbar puncture seemed to be not very useful in these patients, assuming that laboratory signs or symptoms could justify an antibiotic treatment.

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