<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>I'm surprised that petnurse says her son was prescribed 10 days of Bactrim. I thought it was standard to always do 14 days of any oral abx for cystics...adult or child.</end quote>
Before Emily's dx, courses of abx that were far too short led to SO many problems: being treated by her ped, he'd of course rx abx like he would for any other kid and give out 7 or 10 day scripts and naturally they were never enough. She'd just be starting to show improvement when she'd be done with the script, then things would blow back up again, and several days later she'd have to start all over again. It wasn't until we repeated the cycle for a couple years that the ped finally wised up and started prescribing longer courses the first time for her illnesses, with better results.
Her cf drs NEVER rx less than 14 days, more often it's 3 weeks now- 14 days of Bactrim after being on it multiple times doesn't work as well anymore or sometimes needs a followup of Keflex if she's only on it for the 14 days.
Before Emily's dx, courses of abx that were far too short led to SO many problems: being treated by her ped, he'd of course rx abx like he would for any other kid and give out 7 or 10 day scripts and naturally they were never enough. She'd just be starting to show improvement when she'd be done with the script, then things would blow back up again, and several days later she'd have to start all over again. It wasn't until we repeated the cycle for a couple years that the ped finally wised up and started prescribing longer courses the first time for her illnesses, with better results.
Her cf drs NEVER rx less than 14 days, more often it's 3 weeks now- 14 days of Bactrim after being on it multiple times doesn't work as well anymore or sometimes needs a followup of Keflex if she's only on it for the 14 days.