TMCMac
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Hello yall,
I recently had an ingrown tow nail temoved with local anesthesia and it was infected. The doctors usually prescribe antibiotics post procedure like this to prevent further infection.
My doctor prescribed me 500 mg doxycilline every 8 hour for 7 days.
My question is is that dose required to prevent infection or is it overkilk? Would there be any detriments to such a high dose or any adverse ffects like completelykilling all gut flora? Would a lower dose provide the same benefit? Seems a bit over kill but not sure what the literature says about these things? Any advice would be great. Ive had taken high doses like these befoe amoxicillin to be exact and theyve messed up my gut in the past. Trying to weight out the risk/benefits thanks!
I recently had an ingrown tow nail temoved with local anesthesia and it was infected. The doctors usually prescribe antibiotics post procedure like this to prevent further infection.
My doctor prescribed me 500 mg doxycilline every 8 hour for 7 days.
My question is is that dose required to prevent infection or is it overkilk? Would there be any detriments to such a high dose or any adverse ffects like completelykilling all gut flora? Would a lower dose provide the same benefit? Seems a bit over kill but not sure what the literature says about these things? Any advice would be great. Ive had taken high doses like these befoe amoxicillin to be exact and theyve messed up my gut in the past. Trying to weight out the risk/benefits thanks!