Assignment – write about how fluoroquinolone (Cipro/Ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/Levofloxacin, Avelox/Moxifloxacin and Floxin/Ofloxacin) use can cause deadly systemic fungal infections.It has been a difficult
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Perhaps I’m naive, but I’ve always assumed that academic and government scientists were generally trustworthy, unbiased (or, at least as unbiased as
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Allergic Reactions or Iatrogenic Illness?
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Allergic Reactions versus Toxicity SyndromesWhen I was twenty, I had an allergic reaction to a sulfa antibiotic. I broke out in itchy
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“I’ve prescribed fluoroquinolone antibiotics to hundreds of patients and I’ve never seen problems like yours. It’s a good drug with an excellent
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Can Antibiotics Induce Psychiatric Reactions?
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In Stephen Fried’s 1998 book, “Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs” he describes his wife Diane’s severe adverse reaction
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Two of the more perplexing features of Fluoroquinolone Toxicity (an adverse reaction to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic – Cipro/Ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/Levofloxacin, Avelox/Moxifloxacin or Floxin/Ofloxacin)
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According to the Mayo Clinic web site, “More than 50 medications, many of them common, can lengthen the QT interval in otherwise
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In 2013, the FDA updated the warning labels on all fluoroquinolones (Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, Floxin and their generic equivalents) to note that
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