What are some short-term and long-term effects of antibiotics?

Question

What are some short-term and long-term effects of antibiotics?

Answer 1

Short term effects vary with the antibiotics.
It can be antibiotic specific or non specific
For eg.Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, gastritis are non specific side effects with any antibiotics
Eg. for specific side effects -Gentamicin can adversely affect hearing (nerve damage)

Long term side effects include drug resistance ( for the person) as well as development of drug resistance bacteria hence it will be more difficult to treat the infections

Answer 2

I have been on antibiotics for about 10 months due to continuous out breaks of invasive and well defined squamous skin cancer, that need to be cut out going down to the fat, am getting to feel very ill from the antibiotics, is there anything I can do to shake this flu like symptoms.

Answer 3

Short term immediate protection from bacteria, long term become no effect..

Answer 4

I took Cipro for UTI for 4 days, I was supposed to take it for a week, but I started getting extremely tired and could hardly walk. After I dropped it I got back to normal in about 8-10 days.

Answer 5

short term: a nasty yeast infection

long term: resistance to antibiotics so they no longer work for treating certain infections.

Answer 6

Antibiotics




Summary

drug class: Antibiotics (general)

Note: see also specific drugs by name or class

type of drug: Antibiotic.

used to treat: Infections, especially bacterial and protozoal.

adverse drug effects: During the course of eliminating disease-causing bacteria antibiotics also usually destroy normally-occurring beneficial bacterial flora that form an integral part of the healthy intestinal ecology and assist digestive and immune functions. Diarrhea and yeast infections, including vaginal yeast, are common side-effects of the disruption of intestinal ecology and the creation of an environment more susceptible to proliferation of pathogenic levels of opportunistic yeast. In more serious cases this diminished state of intestinal health could potentially permit overgrowth of C. difficile, a bacteria responsible for pseudomembranous colitis. Patients who develop pseudomembranous colitis as a result of antibiotic treatment can experience diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and sometimes even shock.

overview of interactions:
• nutritional support: Probiotic Intestinal Flora

• nutrient affected by drug: Vitamin K

Interactions

nutritional support: Probiotic Intestinal Flora

• nutritional support: Supplementation of beneficial probiotic bacterial flora, such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidus and Lactobacillus cassei, preferably in the form of a varied, vigorous and abundant culture, will restore the healthy intestinal ecology and stabilize the mucosal lining of the gut. A supplemental dosage of at least one billion organisms per day is necessary to achieve the critical mass of bacterial restoration and successfully reinvigorate healthy intestinal ecology.

nutrient affected by drug: Vitamin K

• mechanism: When antibiotics destroy all or most of the beneficial bacterial flora in the gut they eliminate the organisms that synthesize a high proportion of the body's vitamin K. Therefore, many antibiotics can indirectly cause a depletion of vitamin K.

• nutritional support: Anyone taking antibiotics for more than a few weeks would most likely benefit from supplemental vitamin K. Nevertheless, it is rare that such a depletion of vitamin K would produce noticeable symptoms. Restoration of the healthy bacterial flora that normally produce the vitamin K is generally advisable after the use of any antibiotics. Vitamin K1 supplementation may be necessary and is available in some multivitamin formulas.


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Answer 7

none usually, but if ur a girl on birth control (the pill or the patch or the ring) it will counteract it and make it stop working during the time you;re on the antibiotics