How do you know the difference between antibiotic side effects and colitis?
Posted on March 05th, 2009 in Antibiotics
waltyeagan87 asked:
So antibiotics can cause stomach cramps and loose stool which are also the symptoms of antibiotic induced colitis.
So antibiotics can cause stomach cramps and loose stool which are also the symptoms of antibiotic induced colitis.
I have been having these symptoms for about three days now and have been off my antibiotic for three days now. How do I know when it could be a sign of something much worse like colitis?
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March 8th, 2009
There’s an old hippie cure for this, I’ve actually used it and it seems to work. Try taking probiotic yogurt (yogurt with active cultures in it) or going to a health food store and taking some of these probiotic pills with bacteria in them. That will help replace some of the bacteria that was lost while you were on antibiotics.
What’s happening is that antibiotics did their job so well, they killed the bacteria in your intestinal tract that your body needs to digest food (which is why you’re having nasty diarrhea).
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