questions from a layman about antibiotics

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Raymond Roy - 27 Dec 2003 20:44 GMT

Hello all,

I have to take antibiotics (amoxil) three times a day during ten days to
treat a very painful tooth-gum infection.

Now, I remember having read many years ago that a certain substance (or
food or supplement or whatsoever) inhibits the action of antibiotics.
Was it milk? Vitamin C? Calcium? Or something else?

What is good to take along with antibiotics? What is not advisable?
Hopefully not milk.

I would appreciate any piece of advice that would help me speed up and
enhance this treatment.

Raymond

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doe - 27 Dec 2003 21:06 GMT

>Subject: questions from a layman about antibiotics
>From: belamiNoSpam@sympatico.ca (Raymond Roy)
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>I would appreciate any piece of advice that would help me speed up and
>enhance this treatment.

Iron .. do not take iron ..

'They' cannot give you an answer if .. meat .. with its' highly absorbable form
of iron makes any difference ..

Too chickenshit to test it ..

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Jacqueline Davidson - 28 Dec 2003 00:15 GMT

Do you have some glyoxide to put on the infected area? Seems to me that
would be a big help. It should help with the pain, and aid the swelling and
infection to go down.
Jackie

> >Subject: questions from a layman about antibiotics
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rxempress - 28 Dec 2003 00:40 GMT

what antibiotic are you taking? BTW I would call your pharmacist and have
her explain it to you.... someone didn't do their job correctly if you left
with such an important question.

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BilZ0r - 28 Dec 2003 00:45 GMT

A good salt mouth wash always helps.

> Do you have some glyoxide to put on the infected area? Seems to me
> that would be a big help. It should help with the pain, and aid the
> swelling and infection to go down.
> Jackie

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rxempress - 28 Dec 2003 00:51 GMT

Sorry I reread your post. Amoxicillin does not interact with any foods or
vitamins or IRON. Please do not get medical advice from unqualified people
on the internet. I also repeat my statement that your pharmacist should
have given you this advice when you picked up your drug, I know that this
time of year is hell for pharmacists (cough and cold and flu season) but it
takes about a minute to counsel a patient on amoxicillin. If you ever have
a question about any medications you receive then call the pharmacy where
you got the medicine and get the answers (the phone number is on the
bottle).

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doe - 28 Dec 2003 16:59 GMT

>Subject: Re: questions from a layman about antibiotics
>From: "rxempress" rxempress@mchsi.com
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>Sorry I reread your post. Amoxicillin does not interact with any foods or
>vitamins or IRON.

http://tinyurl.com/2gjrx

Amoxicillin
Iron supplements may make amoxicillin less effective. Take iron supplements at
least 2 hours before or after this oral antibiotic.

> Please do not get medical advice from unqualified people
>on the internet. I also repeat my statement that your pharmacist should
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>you got the medicine and get the answers (the phone number is on the
>bottle).

AND .. stay away from ANY advice from .. YOU ..

Moron ..

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Mahmoud Kadri - 02 Jan 2004 23:37 GMT

> Amoxicillin
> Iron supplements may make amoxicillin less effective. Take iron supplements at
> least 2 hours before or after this oral antibiotic.

There are no studies that have confirmed this. Don't be so hasty and believe
everything you read off the net.

JT, Pharm.D/Ph.D

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CaptainKrunch - 28 Dec 2003 13:08 GMT

At the time of my posting here there hasn't been any mention to your ? about
what is good to take with antibiotics. Well I believe live culture yogurt
is good take with antibiotics because it helps to maintain the good bacteria
in your GI tract that is killed off by the antibiotics.

CaptainKrunch

> Hello all,
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>
> Raymond

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Raymond Roy - 28 Dec 2003 22:16 GMT

Le Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:08:45 -0800, "CaptainKrunch" <nothing@nobody.com>
?crivit :

>At the time of my posting here there hasn't been any mention to your ? about
>what is good to take with antibiotics. Well I believe live culture yogurt
>is good take with antibiotics because it helps to maintain the good bacteria
>in your GI tract that is killed off by the antibiotics.

I read this about live culture yogourt and raw milk cheese. Thanks.

Raymond

>CaptainKrunch
>> Hello all,
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>> Raymond

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Mike & Nikki - 30 Mar 2004 06:52 GMT

Actually, it is not a good idea to take live active culters with your
antibiotic as the antibiotic may go towards killing off the live cultres
rather than your infection. It is better to take the cultres about 2
hours apart from the antibiotic. That way you still replace the lost
bacteria in your GI tract and the antiobiotic can kill off the infection
it was meant to treat.

Mike- RPh

> Le Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:08:45 -0800, "CaptainKrunch" <nothing@nobody.com>
> écrivit :
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>>>Raymond

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Raymond Roy - 28 Dec 2003 22:14 GMT

Thank everybody for their input.

Raymond

Le Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:44:47 GMT, belamiNoSpam@sympatico.ca (Raymond
Roy) ?crivit :

>Hello all,
>
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>
>Raymond

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