Hi, About medications for UTI, it really depends on the colonization of bacteria that you have in your bladder at the time of your symptoms. I used to have a lot of pseudomonas in my bladder at a time and the doctors were giving me gentamicin IV and my last infections, for some reason, there was a lot of staphylococcus (SARM) in it so I was giving Antibiotic again but by pill this time, Bactrim. I think it all depends to the doctor that is treating you and the kind of bacteria present in your bladder a that time. Each type of bacteria has a few different antibiotic as a solution to treat it, well at least most. I hope it help a bit.
Thanks, Yannik From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] UTI antibiotics to use and treatment My Nurse Took a Culture in the Stoma Last Week. The Pharmacy Called and Said They Were Sending a Penicillin, Which I Have Been Allergic to for Years and Would Have Died If I Had Not Gotten to ER in Time for Drugs to Open up My Airway. Then They Changed It to Bactrim. Today I Became Really Cold and Chilling with a Fever. I Called the On-Call Doctor and they gave me Cipro. They always give me generic drugs. They Gave Me a New Doctor When My Previous Doctor Became a Hospitalist.. What are all of you given for UTIs and do any of you have iIleo- conduit. It seems like I can read more than I should. My previous nursing agency was not doing me cultures the right way. They couldn't find another nurse to replace her when she went to another job. The agency would not give her the right kind of red catheters to check my ostomy stoma. I then had to wait several weeks to see my doctor because she would not write new orders until she saw me and she was going to be out of town. And she did not give the orders to the new agency. I don't think they know the needs a quadriplegic. I would appreciate any suggestions and information. Dana
