My husband was prescribed Erythromycin for a chest infection despite telling the doctor he has had bad reactions in the past. He took them and guess what - he had a bad reaction (severe stomach upset but not sickness). He returned to the doctors who have now told him that because he has started the course they can't change his prescription. Is this true and can someone explain why...
2006-10-23 02:15:54 · 6 answers · asked by histrel 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
No, it's not true. A doctor can change it if he wants to and he should have listened when he was told your husband had problems with it in the past. I'd get a new physician. Tell hubby if he must take the rest of the meds, take it with food (not milk or oj), like crackers or toast. If he gets diarrhea, that's common with most antibiotics. Elevate your fluids, and take an anti-diarrheal. godloveya.
2006-10-23 02:19:18 · answer #1 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your husband is no doubt taking the best antibiotics for his infection and they want him to continue with it. You are stating he has upset stomach but not "sickness" so this isn't considered a bad reaction but a side effect. I would think they have suggested he take this with plenty of food and some milk to help avoid this. Sometimes these upsets will resolve after a day or two of the medication. Since the course is no doubt for ten days I am sure as an adult he could get through this.
2006-10-23 09:24:18 · answer #2 · answered by Tulip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not totally true they could change the rx if the side effect was severe enough but if he can make it through its much much better to finish what he started. You see every time you take an antibiotic and dont finish it your body starts to build an immunity to it to the point that in an emergency if he really needed the antibiotic it would not work. Its very important to finish the entire prescription so you dont have problems in the future. and next time he goes to dr just tell the dr in the begining that he has stomach problems and they can give him something different
2006-10-23 09:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by peace and love 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd imagine its for the same reason that immunisation shots work.
If you've given the pathogens in question a small dose of the antibiotic... i.e. not enough to completely eradicate them... you're giving them an oppurtunity to safely adapt to it and become immune to its effects themselves. In that way, if a more urgent situation ever arose where it was necessary to administer said antibiotic again... it wouldn't work... at all.
Just remember... antibiotics are a dodgy thing to use at the best of times... because if they don't completely kill off the pathogen, you end up with a resistant strain developing, which eventually can lead to "superbugs" as they are known... i.e. bacteria and the like immune to multiple antibiotics.
2006-10-23 09:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can`t understand why the Dr hasn`t told him to stop, I am allergic to 2 anti biotics and I always ask my Dr for the same one now ,a chest infection can last for weeks so why can`t your husband come off and start a new coarse?
2006-10-23 09:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's absolute rubbish.
He shouldn't have been prescribed them in the first place.
I'm no doctor but my advice is to stop taking them immediatly and make another appointment with another doctor.
2006-10-23 09:27:57 · answer #6 · answered by Julie B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋