i have just been prescribed antibiotics for the first time ever ( or at least cNt remember taking any). It isnt a glamorous infection (sorry) its a skin infection on my hand but there isnt any option as untreated can infest the bone/sepsis/death ugh.
So I dont know if I am allergic to this, I told the doc I hadnt ever taken any and she just kind of laughed.
anyway Ive failed the first test as I was drinking coffee with milk when I read the leaflet saying dont take it within an hour either side of food, so I’ll have to wait and then what if I get anallergic reaction, I’m home alone..
jeez these drugs are not to be taken lightly.
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Never?!? Your microbiome must be amazing!
Remember to take some probiotics to fend off thrush etc
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Allergic reactions are very rare. If you had a really bad allergic reaction you'd probably know by now. Anything else would likely be a slow creep and you just stop taking them if you feel rough. I had a reaction to penicillin once and it was mainly a burning redness on my chest and neck. It might muck around with your digestive system a bit too, but it'll pass.
Having food either side won't cause any problems, you just wont absorb as much. Fucidin is a really good topical antibiotic for skin with none of the side effects of taking drugs, it's a shame they didn't give you that!
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^Wot Meh sed. Food doesn't cause or worsen an allergic reaction to antibiotics, it just impedes its efficacy by slowing absorption.
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thanks all!
i dont even know what probiotics are Clergs.
unfortunately topical antibiotic no use for cellulitis
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I've been on these bad boys for over a week. Reminds me, time for my next.
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Well google them cos thrush is no joke!
My personal favourite is kefir
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thanks clergs, i think i will have a chat with the pharmacist, see what they recommend
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Only Teclis can properly opine on this
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Guffaw @ bernstein
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Should have had the next dose by now. Are you alive? Anyone with personal details to alert ambulance?
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I took penecillin loads as a kid. amoxcicillin (or banana medicine). had some a couple of years ago and went whole body blotchy. like really whole body. not a good look.
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this made me literally LOL
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fvck I hate these antibiotics.Yes I have tried probiotics.
constant indigestion and also ravenous hunger.
the meds require me to take one 60 mis before food and then after food none for 2 hrs after, four times a day. You have to do a lot of planning. The huge hunger they invoke means you have to put up with huge hunger a lot of the day.
fed up. Until thursday I have to do this.
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I’m feeding a cold this weekend. Bleurrghh
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Last ones I took were so unbearable I had to stop, minkie. Worth asking if you can switch if one kind especially bad.
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“Failure by people like me to take the full course of antibiotics is why we are at risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria.”
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Some antibiotics can't be tolerated
So you need to stop them and ask for something else
Well you could keep taking them and die but seems counterproductive
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heh
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“смех”
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I amamazed you haven’t taken antibiotics up until now
respec’
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