Thoughts on this antibiotic tx?

[ssfkat]

Bloodwork is incomplete, but in the interim, our dr. has prescribed the following antibiotics to be taken concurrently.

 

Does this seem like a typical regime to start with?

 

It seems to me it might be better to do one drug at a time to gauge whether it works??

 

Any thoughts?? Our daughter is 60 lbs.

 

Augmentin tabs 500mg, 1/day

Biaxin tabs 250mg, 1/day

Valtrex tabs 500mg, 1/day for 10 days

[pr40]

doses are prophiactic, that is, small.

often, two abx are combined, though more orthodox PANDAS drs suggest one.

 

valtrex is not an abx but an anti-viral.

 

augmenting is the usual abx, as is zytromax. our kids were on that combo, which is the most usual combo (if I have that one correctly).(during our last meeting, our dr suggested going to one abx and his choice was zythro)

 

I am not familiar with Biaxin -- it is for H pylori.

you may want to make a separate post about its effectivness for PANS.

 

your dr is firing on all guns.

personally, i think this is a great approach.

start big and then, after a few months, discontinue one and see.

in the second phase, you can try to fine tune abx -- different abx have different effects

Edited November 22, 2014 by pr40

[ssfkat]

Okay, thanks. We're fairly new to the pharmaceutical world, having tried the "natural" approach for several years to no avail.

 

Just wanted some kind of feedback that this wasn't overdosing her system somehow...

 

thanks

[melmix]

This is exactly what my son was on meds wise - he has strep, mycoplasma, and viruses.
The biaxin was for the mycoplasma which can be very hard to treat.