Peripheral neuropathy (a form of nerve damage) has been associated with the use of antibacterial drugs, called fluoroquinolones, used to treat serious bacterial infections. These types of antibacterial drugs are used to treat infections acquired in hospitals or when other antibacterial drugs have failed. The potential damage may occur soon after these drugs are taken and may be permanent. FDA has required that the drug labels and medication guides for all these drugs be updated to better describe this serious side effect.
Risk: The risk of nerve damage occurs only with fluoroquinolones that are taken by mouth or by injection. Approved fluoroquinolone drugs include ciprofloxacin (Cipro), levofloxacin (Levaquin), moxifloxacin (Avelox), norfloxacin (Noroxin), ofloxacin (Floxin) and gemifloxacin (Factive). Nerve damage has a lot of different symptoms depending on which nerves are affected, but pain, numbness and muscle problems are common occurrences.
If Phage Therapy were available we would not have a problem with side effects. Unlike antibiotics phage therapy has no serious side effects.
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