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Antibiotics therapy (over three months) necessary?
Dear expert team, My daughter (CF patient, three years old, mild progression so far with only a few minor infections, completely without cough for three years except during infection times) was just diagnosed with an acute infection of the lungs with Staph. aureus (anti-staphylolysin positive). ...
01.12.2011
CF and vein situation
My three years old daughter has CF and Pseudomonas infection. Therefore we often go for intravenous treatment. I want to ask, if there is something for hardening of the veins, because our daughter must very often go for repunctureing and her veins burst very often. Thank you very much.
22.11.2011
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Is intravenous antibiotics treatment necessary for a child with CF who has stenotrophomonas maltophilia and is resistant to peroral antibiotics? What other type of treatment would you recommend?
16.11.2011
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
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