antibiotics?

Neysa R Spurrier

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Mar 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/23/98

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Neysa, Mom of 4, Brandon-15, Coby-7, Taryn-5, and Rylee-3.
Childhood should be a journey, not a race.

Does anyone know about effects of long term antibiotics. After repeated
urinary tract infections my 3 yo has been diagnosed with"fancy name I
have misplaced" meaning her urine is backing up into her kidneys. No
damage yet, but need to prevent infections till she "outgrows" it which
she should. My concern is the long term effects. She has already had
ALOT due to lung problems that she does seem to have outgrown. Now
this!!!!! Surgery is an option, I think? but dont really want to go there
either.
Neysa, Mom of 4, Brandon-15, Coby-7, Taryn-5, and Rylee-3.
Childhood should be a journey, not a race.
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Mark Remlin

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Mar 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/24/98

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Neysa,

Long term use of antibiotics can cause food alergies. Overgrowth of yeast
in the digestive track for starters.

Antibiotics kill off both good and bad bacteria. In the gut Yeast takes over
when the good bacteria is killed off. The yeast can allow toxins to get into
the blood stream (leaky gut).

A good book to read is the Yeast Connection BY William Crook.

Hope this helps

Mark

Kramer, Kevin

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Mar 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/24/98

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The potential long-term complications of untreated GU reflux are renal
insufficiency and renal failure as the result of chronic pyelonephritis
and renal scarring from the reflux, and that is the reason prophylactic
antibiotics are used in this situation. Kevin Kramer, MD

Patti A.

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Mar 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/24/98

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One thing that will compensate for the killing off of the good bacteria
when one is on antibiotics is acidophilus. You can find it at a health
food store. It is also in Dannon or Columbo yogurts. I learned this
when my son got his first ear infection, which then led to a yeast
infection. Since we tried the acidophilus, we've rarely had to deal
with yeast infections.

Patti A.

Neysa R Spurrier

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Mar 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/25/98

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Her diagnosis is Vesico Ureteral Reflux or VUR. The truly tramatic part
is having to have her catheritized (word?) every six months to see if
this tube from the kidney to bladder is closing properly. It took six
people to hold her down last time. Truly tramatic for me. I did go to
the nutritionalist and he assured me giving her acidopholis daily should
take care of the side effect of the antibiotics. Something I had
already started. She also only drinks milk in her cereal and I use
acidophilis milk there too. We are anti dairy people for many reasons
including the fact my husband used to haul milk and its a nasty process.
We really trust our peditrician and his genuine mannerism when he told me
was VERY SERIOUS quite unlike him and he is the one who told me our son
had epilepsy and he came across as this being much more serious. Her
"rating" is a 2 based on a scale from 1-4. Thanks for everyones
responses.

Neysa, Mom of 4, Brandon-15, Coby-7, Taryn-5, and Rylee-3.
Childhood should be a journey, not a race.

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:20:48 -0500 Gi...@webtv.net writes:
>Neysa, My daughter has the same problem. I can't remember the 1st word
>but starts w/V & 2nd is reflux. Is it same thing? It was recommended
>she
>stay on the antibiotics for a yr. Knowing that eventually that may
>cause
>harm long-term I made sure she took them long enough to get rid of
>infection. Now as long as she takes in plenty of fluids she is doing
>just fine. Hope this helps. Kim