Ciprofloxacin

Most people with Cipro like antibiotics have no problems but how would you feel if you'd pressured your doctor to give you an antibiotic for that post viral cough and ended up with one of the problems listed below. We are all far too casual. We treat drugs like magic lollies.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that the professional product labeling, or package inserts, for all fluroquinolone antibiotics must warn about the possibility of peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage). A list of the fluroquinolone antibiotics currently available in the U.S. appears at the end of this article.

Pseudomembranous colitis has been reported with nearly all antibacterial agents and may range in severity from mild to life-threatening. Therefore, it is important to consider this diagnosis in patients who present with diarrhea subsequent to the administration of antibacterial agents.

Extreme caution should be used when fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin are to be prescribed in conjunction with aminophylline or theophylline, particularly in elderly patients. Aminophylline or theophylline doses should be adjusted, perhaps reduced by 30 to 50% at the start of fluoroquinolone therapy.


WARNING: INCREASED RISK OF TENDINITIS AND TENDON RUPTURE WITH ALL FLUOROQUINOLONE ANTIBIOTICS

Fluoroquinolones are excreted in human milk. Because of the potential for serious adverse effects in nursing infants, you should not take these drugs while nursing.

Side effects


Only use drugs when they are going to make a real difference.