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SirPeale:
--- Quote from: daywane on June 26, 2005, 05:52:11 am ---got staff in hospital. cipro has kept it in check for a long time now. ( VA changed it 1 yr ago to bactrom, now going to viox (I do not under stand the change of cipro , it worked fine for years)
he is 70 yrs old ( in Oct) his bad leg is 3" shorter then the other.
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I know this is an old post, but I know now why they changed his antibiotic.
Cipro is an antibiotic with a rather lengthy list of side effects. Due to your fathers age they were changing to to avoid possibly killing him. It's especially troublesome in older patients.
boykster:
--- Quote from: Peale on September 30, 2007, 03:37:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: daywane on June 26, 2005, 05:52:11 am ---got staff in hospital. cipro has kept it in check for a long time now. ( VA changed it 1 yr ago to bactrom, now going to viox (I do not under stand the change of cipro , it worked fine for years)
he is 70 yrs old ( in Oct) his bad leg is 3" shorter then the other.
--- End quote ---
I know this is an old post, but I know now why they changed his antibiotic.
Cipro is an antibiotic with a rather lengthy list of side effects. Due to your fathers age they were changing to to avoid possibly killing him. It's especially troublesome in older patients.
--- End quote ---
i also know this is an old post, but yes, cipro is not really intended for long term usage. Also, most likely the cipro was only able to manage the infection, but not eliminate it. Unfortunately, what that does is it will select for a very resilient strain of Staph that will be almost impossible to be rid of.
No, I'm not a physician, but I have a lot of experience with drug resistant bacteria. Screening novel anti-infective agents (drug candidates) against MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staph Aureus) is a very common test for activity...
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