The Top Four Antibiotics Used to Treat Bone Infection

Drugs - - everyone fears them to a certain degree; obviously some more than others. I personally despise taking them. That probably is a result of the many medications I had to take as a child with rheumatic fever.

Unfortunately, my recent foray into severe bone infection has, to say the least, been most enlightening. I've learned a lot about infection, in general, and bone infection, in particular. I've also learned its effect on the human body and I've discovered how an infection in one area can travel through the bloodstream to damage a totally different area altogether.

While my physicians are still battling over my illness; which was damaged first, the bone or the heart, I figure it really doesn't matter. Infection is infection is infection. It goes where it wants to, it destroys whatever it feels like destroying, and it causes as much pain as it desires.

Over the last few weeks I've been fed (through IV) or taken orally more antibiotics than any human should have to take. I've had clindamycin, levaquin, amoxicillin and bactrim. It seems that my doctors can't find one that wants to help with my infection. So I decided to check each drug out myself to see what they are "supposed" to do.

Clindamycin is an antibiotic that is prescribed to help fight off serious bacteria infections. However, it will not treat viral infections like the common cold.

The drug isn't recommended for people who suffer from the following:

- Kidney disease,
- Liver disease,
- Intestinal disorders,
- Crohn's disease, or
- Eczema.

Like most medications, it has side effects:

- Diarrhea (could be watery or bloody),
- Clay colored stool,
- Dark urine,
- Urinating less or more often,
- Flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, and body aches),
- Nausea or even stomach pain,
- Low-grade fever,
- Loss of appetite,
- Jaundice (generally most notable in the eye),
- Mild skin rash that itches, and
- Irritation in the throat.

In my case the clindomycin had absolutely no effect on my infection. In fact, it actually got worse very quickly.