DOXYCYCLINE vs METRONIDAZOLE

I posted about this last night. I didn't get any responses with helpful information, so I'm reposting the relevant info I gave then below. Since I made my first post, I've lost **ALL HEARING** in my right ear. I'm sorry if this isn't kosher, I'm just so afraid and frustrated and helpless. I'm a whi

37M, 175cm/63kg. Caucasian-latino ethnic background, born in the US and lived in South Asia for 11 years. I have no real long term medical history, I only take naproxen sometimes for muscle pain from work. Over the past few months though, I have had some +medical issues pop up. MRSA skin infection

Hey all! 11 YO female, 5 ft, 91 pounds. No preexisting health conditions. You may remember me from a month ago. My daughter was the one with severe head and eye pain and super high fevers that were hard to break. Someone told me, in the middle of the night, to take her to the ER. I got flamed becaus

***Update 9/20*** All of his pending tests were negative, the last one we were waiting for was Rocky Mountain spotted fever and it too, was negative. We did follow up labs today though and his WBC dropped in half. At its peak it was 20.5 and now it’s 10.4, well within the limits of normal. The only

Just got done with a bizarre encounter with a patient and since we’ve had issues with this patient in the past, I’m actually wondering if she’s making the whole thing up. Apparently, her doctor specifically told her to **ignore any recommendations or advice from the pharmacist that works at this sp

Hospital pharmacist here, just here to vent as I found this incredibly frustrating and even scary. I was working from home today when my wife had a tele-health visit with her PCP. She’s pending Covid results and often suffers from sinusitis. She’s also allergic to penicillin (true allergy- anaphylax

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What was I thinking?! I’m panicking bc I knew better. I was getting ready to give a COVID vaccine and the pt casually mentions he’s got double pneumonia…. I was like what? I asked did the MD clear him for vaccines and did he have a fever. He said yes then no, in that order and insisted on getting it

I graduated this year and will begin my Internship this year's end or next year. I am working as a retail Pharmacist for the mean time just to get familiar with patients and how things are practically, while i scout for Internship centers which isn't easy as there are not enough. After reading posts

I'll start. Metronidazole and some formulations of ciclosporin as they sometimes contain ethanol as part of manufacturing process.

I’ll start. “Hairy” tongue with metronidazole

For me, I like to let patients know some metronidazole tastes absolutely disgusting and to limit the amount of contact it has with your tongue. Edit: sorry for the typo in the header, I can't fix it.

The IDSA/SHEA guidelines for C. diff infection is finally updated. Metronidazole is no longer recommend for mild cases: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/cix1085/4855916#.WoUYufzsWpk.twitter ...whaaaaaat?!

YHey guys its come to my attention that metronidazoles interaction with alcohol is still a controversial topic, depsite recent literature discrediting old counseling points. How do you guys feel about this? The CDC has a statement out saying its okay to take alcohol while on metronidazole and even d

idk how to title this properly, but this has been eatinggggg at me and the folks i work with are like really old and wouldn’t understand this dumb mental association. gen z rise and hear me <3 when u see a drug name does it ever replay in your head something that sounds the same? that dont make

Our Antimucrobial teacher was discussing Metronidazole and how it's good for C. Diff colitis. Then it occurs to him that the CDC recommends metronidazole for CDC Gave himself a chuckle