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Please help?
Who knows of you medicine taken in the form of maintenance to prevent the return of the enemy klebsiella pneumoniae
Because I'm tired whenever I treat the infection come back after 14 days of treatment
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steve62514 rahem16180
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I have experience of 3 pneumoniae outbreaks, but must say I never had a doctor explain the strain to me!
Was sufficiently interested to read it up a bit on the internet.
Google has loads of answers and notes that klebsiella infection treatment is "discrepant", which I think - having searched online dictionaries - means it reacts inconsistently from one person to another (and maybe in the same person from one infection to the next) which rather suggests one person's good experience with a specific antibi is likely to be of little use as a generic recommendation for you. Reading between the lines it looks as though medics have to do a bit of trial and error with a patient presenting with such an infection.
I have had there pneumonia outbreaks - one at 13, which nearly killed me apparently and all I know is that the doctor was relieved to find me out of febrile danger (can still recall the halucinatory deeply feverish night 50 years later) in the morning having injected me with "penecillin" - that's all he told my mother apparently - presumably an early stage antibi. My two bronchX related pneumonias were caught relatively early and I started to recover from the first almost as soon as the first levafloxacin tablet had hit my system. My second was a bit deeper but I was out of hospital in three days having been IV'd in Thailand (by a generalist infections consultant) with ceftazidime, which I see is one of the recommended potential treatments for klebsiella. My Thai Bangkok leading pulmonologist who specialises in bronchX (old and wise - says he used to train all Thai medics in the disease) expressed surprise that my local regional hospital had used this drug as combined experience of Thai pulmos was that it had run out of efficacy in bronchX patients in Thailand (efficacy can be country or region specific apparently) and its use for such had been stopped in Thailand a few years previous; he wasn't critical though - said it's possible that it has recovered efficacy and 'don't knock it if it worked!
Best advice would be to ask a pulmo if you can speak to a specialist hospital pharmacist (or maybe an immunologist). My UK specialists are at Papworth Hospital (live in Thailand but visit UK once or twice a year for family visits and bronchX monitoring). Their lung defence team has a pharmacology consultant who has run through my meds with me on a couple of occasions.
aitarg35939 rahem16180
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Steve's reply makes it even ckearer to me, anyway, Rahem, that your docs need to try some different antibios on you. Unless you happen to live somewhere remote where what they keep giving you is all they've got?