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How certain is the treatment for pseudomonas?
a)When someone is treated with ciprofloxacin for quite sometime with negative pharyngeal cultures and continues to take the medicine for a little while longer, what are the chances of getting reinfected with pseudomonas during the course of treatment, or immediately after its termination? What are ...
29.11.2011
antibiotic treatment
My son (25 years) is colonized by Staphylococcus aureus R (MRSA), Alcaligenes xylosoxidans, Aspergillus fumigatus. He has IV treatments over and over, the germs have become resistant to antibiotics. The Zyvoxid (Linezolide), is no longer effective. Can we hope that former antibiotics would become ...
10.11.2011
Intravenous course
Hello, Could you please give us scientific explanation on how and where precisely intravenous antibiotics will act on the targeted bacteria? What is the difference compared to aerosols? Thank you.
20.09.2011
Antibiotic odour
Hello, I have just finished an intravenous treatment with tazocillin one week ago and since the end of treatment my skin smells special ! ! Is it possible or is this a 'hallucination " ??? best regards ...
20.09.2011
Burkholderia gladioli
Dear expert team, after a 15-day imipenem therapy against Burkholderia gladioli, the first germ test was negative; now a few weeks later, however, an infection is traceable again. How would you proceed? Symptomatically, there is pain during breathing, which had ceased immediately after therapy ...
30.08.2011
tobi
hello I have CF and am 28 years of age over the last two years my FEV1 has declined from 68 to 48 % predicted because I worked in an environment with heavy smoking, this is irritating my lungs and I did 6 hours physiotherapy per day, I receive one course of iv antibiotics per year and sometimes I ...
14.07.2011
pseudomonas
Hi my daughter is 3 years and pseudomonas is found for the second time in 2 months. Our center offers the same treatment again (4weeks of tobi inhalations and ciprofloxacin) it didn´t remove the pseudomonas this time and i am affraid it will not take it this time. I am aware that other centers ...
27.06.2011
antibiotics
Hello, My daughter whose 18 month old child was diagnosed with CF at birth, has the impression that doctors routinely give antibiotics without sputum culture. Practitioners criticize each other, we even heard a "if you want". Knowing that having a sick child greatly fragilizes her, it's not up to ...
07.06.2011
staphylococcus aureus
My daughter is colonized by Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. She finished an intravenous antibiotics course one month ago and she has already bronchial obstruction and dyspnea. If we manage to eliminate staphylococcus, will P. aeruginosa be less aggressive? Which antibiotics will ...
23.05.2011
Staphylococcal infection we are treating is chronic?
Thank you for a very useful Q&A! My seven-year-old complains with knee and leg pain and that she suddenly feels she cannot walk. She has CF. We do not listen to carefully, but then, I found this on the web (e-corn-cf.eu): CF-arthropathy 2) Episodic (acute) arthritis Hereby it deals in ...
05.05.2011
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