Antibiotic causing stomach problems?!
Question: I'm taking Augmentin for bronchitis and I am on day 3 of the medicine and it's giving me bad stomach issues. I hate to be gross but it's basically making me have to run to the bathroom every 20 minutes. I am volunteering at my kids school function tonight and don't want to deal with this. What can I do to help?
Answers: I'm taking Augmentin for bronchitis and I am on day 3 of the medicine and it's giving me bad stomach issues. I hate to be gross but it's basically making me have to run to the bathroom every 20 minutes. I am volunteering at my kids school function tonight and don't want to deal with this. What can I do to help?
Lay off all the dairy products for a start. Antibiotics don't discriminate between the good gerbies and the bad ones- they kill them all. In this case, the Augmentin has done in the gerbies in your gut responsible for breaking down dairy products, and it's giving you the usual diarrhea. While you are on the antibiotics, you will have to lay off the dairy. No milk, cream, butter, yogurt, cheese- nothing cow related. Once you finish the antibiotics you will need to have a carton or two of live culture yogurt, flavor of your choice, and preferably organic, sweetened with sugar or honey- not an artificial sweetener. Eat a couple cartons of that a day for two or three days, and then you can ease the dairy back into the diet. For right now, you will need bananas, rice, apples/applesauce, white bread/soda or water crackers, and all the clear liquids you can drink. That should help bind matters some for you. And baby wipes will be a lot easier on the personality than regular paper. If you stick to clear liquids today, it should stop the running by this evening- and afterwards you can do the BRAT thing. Since you aren't really sick in the digestive area, you can also have lean meat, veg and fruits. Just remember, no dairy. And when you see the doctor again, you might chide him for not giving you a reminder about this- it could have saved you a lot of discomfort if he had. He or the pharmacist should have given you the brief on the antibiotics when you got them.
you should stop taking it and call your doctor and tell him/her you need some other antibiotic. you are going to be totally dehydrated soon. augmentin is notorious for causing gastrointestinal problems.
Ring your doc and tell him\her..
I was on this too and it had the complete opposite effect but i know it happens to a lot of people. Your best bet is to ring him and ask is is ok to take something to stop the ...you know whats..
I would call your pharmacist to see if you can take some peptobismol with your antibiotic. Good luck!
I always have this issue when I take antibiotics. Your body is supposed to have good bacteria in your intestines. The thing my doctor has told me time and time again is to make sure you eat plenty of yogurt. Yogurt has lots of good bacteria that will get back into your digestive tract. Yes, the antibiotics will continue to kill the bacteria that come in with the yogurt, but if you keep eating yogurt you'll continue to bring the good bacteria in. If you can't stand the taste of yogurt, you can buy active culture acidophilus from your pharmacy. It's usually kept behind the counter because it needs to be refrigerated to stay alive.
This isn't necessarily a quick fix, have you tried any Imodium or anything like that yet? Getting something in your system to help....dry everything up....may help.
Good luck!!!
You need a heavy duty probiotic. Augmentin (and all antibiotics) will kill both the good and the bad bacteria. That means many have gut dybiosis (often with yeast overgrowth) which requires treatment... usually by replentishing the beneficial bacteria in your GI tract.
Buy a probiotic with high count (5-15 billion). Florajen3 is good. Garden of Life also sells quality probiotics (Primal Defense). Even eating yogurt helps. Temporarily avoid milk and wheat products (GOOD yogurt is different, though; don't eat Yoplait or those high sugar yogurts that are basically candy in a cup. Buy real yogurt with lots of lactobacillus) because your GI tract might be more sensitive during the course of antibiotics.
BUT, if you are having watery diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, you need to stop taking Augmentin and contact your MD. If it lasts longer than 3 days, contact your MD. Do NOT take any drugs to stop the diarrhea while you are taking the Augmentin unless you check with a doctor first.
Sorry! For lots of people, the diarrhea will stop once the meds stop, but it is a good idea to still take a probiotic for a few weeks to get that healthy bacteria back ASAP.
don't take pepto with antibiotics. it coats the stomach and inhibits absorption. and read about augemtin at rxlist.com. it is not known for stomach upset, just the opposite. that's why it is often prescribed for kids and their bronchile issues. that's why it is recommended by the AMA as first option antibiotic for repsiratory infections. i would suspect that you have some kind of other issue going on that makes you sit all day on pot. however, if you truly believe it's the drug, ask your doc for a prescription for a Z-Pak. it's a 5 day course of zithromax. 2 pills 1st day and 1 pill for next 4 days. incredibly effective and short term instead of 2 pills a day for 10 days. accompanied by a 1 gram shot of rocephin, it can wipe out a URI in a matter of days. it does have a greater chance of side effects like nausea and gatro intestinal upset but it's so short a run of treatment that you are over it quickly. depending on how ill my patients are, i almost always try augmentin first. if not that, the Z-Pak and rocephin. a liquid diet is not going to clear up your problem in a matter of hours. sorry but that's just wishful thinking. try saltines and cheese because they act as a binding agent in the intestines and will hold poo together pretty well. or take immodium over the counter. pretty fast acting. remember that diarrhea serves the purpose of ridding the body of something it finds harmful so stopping it is not always your best treatment.