Multiple antibiotics

[lss]

Is there is study out there that shows using two different types of antibiotics may work better than using just one? I noticed a few parents posts stating that Dr. T has rx'd 2 different antibiotics.

 

Buster, do you have any insight on this? Anyone else?

 

Linda

[peglem]

I don't know of any studies, but I'll tell you my doctors rational in doing rifampin+augmentin. Once we figured out that she probably had intracellular strep- he made the comparison to TB, which he says goes intracellular as well. So, we tried the rifampin which goes intracellular, but he said doesn't kill the bacteria and then used bacteriacidal doses of augmentin.

[momaine]

I was one of the people who said that Dr. T prescribed two antibiotics. Dd was already on Augmentin XR 2000mg and he added 500mg Azithromycen. He said they worked in different ways (one killed the strep and one stopped it from multiplying??? seems like it was something like that but don't quote me) and that the Zith was a broader spectrum antibiotic. I had questioned whether or not some strains of strep on the east coast don't respond to Azith and he said that was true in certain pockets of population. Perhaps that is one reason why he kept her on the Augmentin? I'm not posiive of that though.

 

Just got the first dose of Zith into her. I'll write a separate update on her for anyone interested in how she's doing.

 

Angela

 

Is there is study out there that shows using two different types of antibiotics may work better than using just one? I noticed a few parents posts stating that Dr. T has rx'd 2 different antibiotics.

 

Buster, do you have any insight on this? Anyone else?

 

Linda