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Suggest Medication For Severe Diarrhea & Abdominal Pain
My husband is taking biaxin for a chest infection for the past 4 days. Now he is having severe diareha, abdominal pain and cramping. He went back to the ER and and they put him on tecta. I think that he is having an adverse reaction to the biaxin. He has Gilberts Syndrome and forgets. He has not been able to get an appointment with our own doctor.
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hi
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gastrointestinal side effects are most common with clarithromycin like abdominal pain diarrhea dyspepsia
if its unbearable please request your doctor to change over to other antibiotics for the chest infections
better alternative is penicillin group of antibiotics like amoxyclav
he can be given some probiotics and tab pantoperazole 40 mg fir immediate relief
thank
wish you good health
regards
welcome to HMC
gastrointestinal side effects are most common with clarithromycin like abdominal pain diarrhea dyspepsia
if its unbearable please request your doctor to change over to other antibiotics for the chest infections
better alternative is penicillin group of antibiotics like amoxyclav
he can be given some probiotics and tab pantoperazole 40 mg fir immediate relief
thank
wish you good health
regards
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