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Antibiotics?

Question by DakotaNZ: Antibiotics? Hi I am taking Flucloxacillin sodium Ca for an infected finger. Does any individual know if I can drink alcohol on these antibiotics? The Doc only mentioned that it may well impact the pill. I’m pretty sure antibiotics used to come with a warning not to drink, but these ones havn’t [...]

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antibiotics?

Question by Leigh: antibiotics? I took my daughter to the doctor yesterday. She has an ear infection, eye infection and sinus infection. They gave her an antibiotic shot around 3pm yesterday and they stated to start the oral antibiotics right now. I don’t know if they meant commence this morning or tonight. The Physician and [...]

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China orders recall of Glaxo drug

China Saturday ordered British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to recall an antibiotic used to treat infections in children which was found to be tainted with a plasticiser. Traces of diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP), which is used to make plastics more flexible, were found in Glaxo’s amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium suspension, which is sold under the tradename Augmentin [...]

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Treating Infections With Antibiotics

Levaquin is the brand name for one of the antibiotics in the family of drugs called fluoroquinolones. Fluoroquinolones, which also includes brand names such as Cipro, Maxaquin, Floxin, Noroxin, and Trovan, prevent the infectious bacteria from reproducing or repairing its DNA, which effectively destroys the colonies. A widely applicable drug, Levaquin is prescribed for infections [...]

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