Mar
antibiotics LOMAX (Lomefloxacin 400mg) has been prescribed by the doctor for 5 days(fever).I had taken it for one day.Now I feel better.So can I stop it .Will it harm.
please tell ne in detail
Thank you…….
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WOW, without a significant diagnosis, this particular antibiotic far exceeds the sledgehammer to crack a walnut and moves in to the atom bomb to crack a walnut class!
It is estimated that 85% of all antibiotics, prescribed for all reasons are unnecessary and well known that the majority of feverish illnesses are viral and self limiting.
You may notice that I have not answered your question, just given you some statistics, this is because it cannot be answered safely in this forum as it would be dangerous to do so. This is a very potent broad spectrum antibiotic that should really be reserved for serious infection, it's use routinely for trivial ferverish illness both encourages antibiotic resistance and the growth and spread of resistant organisms like MRSA. However no one here has examined your, nor do they have, with your lack of history, any idea what is actually wrong with you, so I cannot tell you to stop taking it.
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Keep taking it - a/b's are designed to work over the full term. If you stop taking it, chances are your fever will return - the a/b's are merely masking the symptoms at the moment.
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you have to finish the course, even if you feel better. If you stop now and the infection hasn't completely gone, it can come back, but with an immunity to the antibiotics.
this is why doctors are loathe to give antibiotics, because people don't use them properly, and it will get to a point where they no longer work.
bottom line is - Finish the course of medication to be absolutely sure they infection is gone.
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You must take the whole course even if you feel better - it probably says so on the packet somewhere. If you fail to do this, the problem may return, and you also risk creating some resistant bacteria.
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Generally speaking a full course of antibiotics is recommended to totally eradicate an infection. If you stop prematurely the problem may reemerge, possibly worse.
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if your doctor gave you a 5 day course then you should continue and finish the course as it may return with a vengeance
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No, keep taking it even after you feel better. Your symptoms may be gone, but the doctor prescribed you the antibiotic to kill an infection or bacteria or whatever is making you sick, and if the doctor told you to take it for 5 days, you need to finish it out. Also, if you don't, you may wind up sicker and become immune to that certain antibiotic. That's happened to me.
Hope you get to feeling better!
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A course of anti-biotics has to be administered for the full length of time they have been prescribed. When you first begin taking, them they will begin to start to work, although not instantaneously. However this affect will ware off if they are not taken for at least the amount of time they are prescribed. Anti-biotics are usually prescribed for some kind of infection, infections will not disappear within one day. Sometimes you just feel better because you believe you should do, the underlying problem will persist and return if they infection is not killed off.
Goodluck x
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No, take the whole course!It's not you that becomes immune to the antibiotic, its the bacteria lol
If you stop now you will only have killed off the weakest of the strain and the stronger bacterium will be able to reproduce and then you're problem will be harder to get rid of. This is part of what causes deadly strains like MRSA!
Dr Frank, most of us are telling her to follow the advice of her doctor, someone who HAS examined her! We're not giving her medical advice, just telling her to listen to her doctor.
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Continue the course to the end even if you begin to feel better. Your symptoms may start to improve before the infection is completely treated.
Take lomefloxacin with a full glass of water (8 ounces) and several extra glasses to prevent lomefloxacin crystals from forming in the urine.
Do not take antacids that contain magnesium or aluminium, vitamin or mineral supplements that contain iron or zinc for a minimum of 2 hours before and after taking the antibiotic. If taken too soon before or after the medication, the effects of the antibiotic can be greatly reduced.
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you feel better because the antibiotics are working but you have to continue it as directed to totally eradicate the bacteria causing your illness. harm? some individuals produce resistance to the antibiotics when they are used unwisely.
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The bacteria,(infection) will not of been killed, you are supposed to take the full coarse of antibiotics, regardless if you feel better
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Yes, it will harm u & others in more than one way.
1. The infection would come back with a vengeance.
2. If u keep on using the antibiotics in such incomplete doses 4 such short periods, the bacteria these r supposed 2 eradicate, would get used 2 them i.e. get resistant to these drugs. The next time u or any other person gets infection from these germs, can not b successfully treated by this antibiotic.
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you must complete the course.
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You must ALWAYS finish the prescribed course of treatment in order to gain the full effect of the drug. You may feel better as you may not have actually needed the antibiotics in the first place and you illness had obviously run its course, but all the same once started you must finished them.
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I have been asked by another user, what it is about the thumbs down on this issue.
please ignore them, as they come from incompetent people, who have no knowledge.
as you feel better, tat means, the drug is working; go and see your doc, whether the dose should be halved.
gyrase inhibitors are good drugs, they have some side-effects. this is not the forum to discuss them!