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Flucloxacillin Should not be given to elderly

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The 500mg version was prescribed to my mother, 2 days after her 92nd birthday. She had been reasonably fit, able to use her 3-wheeled walking-frame, and had a healthy appetite. She was in a respite Home when these were prescribed for a pressure sore on the side of her toe (which she already had). As the Home obtained the capsules, I didn't get to read the leaflet - if I had, I would have queried them being prescribed. Mum developed diarrhoea, severe loss of appetite, and a runny nose, as well as severe fatigue. She has yet to recover fully, 3 weeks on. Last week, a new prescription of them was given to her, but this time I am not going to let her take them, as I have read the leaflet and they are NOT suitable.

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  • yaseen13378
    yaseen13378 EBro

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    Hello i can totley understand what your mum went through im only 23 and i was runing to toilte and really bad stomach pains. Ive got tonsils and they gave me them GP said awwww its a side effect the diarea but i said it not good at all i need something else so shes given me sumat else now im still going toilte but not much. These drug compneys need to find a new drug that is better than this one its making people ill and bed ridn
  • simon243
    simon243 EBro

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    I had a similar sounding prob with my second toe for which I was firstly prescribed Flucloxacillin @ 500mg every 6 hrs for a week. The toe started to look/feel better at first but after a week it hadn't, so I took myself to A&E in pain! (2 week waiting time at the GP!)where they advised me that I had an adverse reaction to the drug. They put me on a different course of antibiotics - Clarithromycin (non penicillin type) @ 500mg every 12 hrs for 
  • simon243
    simon243 EBro

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    I had a similar sounding prob with my second toe for which I was firstly prescribed Flucloxacillin @ 500mg every 6 hrs for a week. The toe started to look/feel better at first but after a week it wasn't, so I took myself to A&E in pain! (2 week waiting time at the GP!)where they advised me that I had an adverse reaction to the drug. They put me on a different course of antibiotics - Clarithromycin (non penicillin type) @ 500mg every 12 hrs for another week. Meanwhile the first lot had caused 'hive' like itchy blisters all over, for which I was told to take antihistamines twice a day. These are now fading but the skin is now peeling off in those areas as well as the toe, which is still discoloured! 
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