Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Some Antibiotics Can Induce Mania
After doing some research, I discovered that some psychiatrists have documented cases in which of a certain class of antibiotics induced mania, even in non-bipolar people. The antibiotics in question are in the class of ABs that include ciprofloxacin, and oxfloxacin. We just started Caroline on a course of Doryx (doxycycline) which is in the tetracycline class of ABs. Now we are suspecting that even though Doryx hasn't been implicated that I could find, that it has induced mania in Caroline. She was prescribed Doryx for acne, but at this point we will have to go another route. We do recall that she seemed to get off-balance on even Amoxicillin and Augmentin. It is so hard to keep up with all of the possible drug interactions when she takes so many psychotrophic drugs! So we will see if she returns to "normal" when the Doryx is out of her system.
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3 comments:
My nephew had all kinds of things, but my sister got him some Pro-Active and it has worked wonders! If I still had my acne problem (which I ended up on Accutane), I'd be trying it before anything else!
Ooh this is soo good to know as many of my daughter's meds cause constipation which (somehow) leads to urinary tract infecitions which requires antibiotics. I wonder if her pediatrician knows this.
(We're mostly trying to treat the acne with Retin-A because it's prescription so Medicaid will pay for it).
Mary in TX
Actually I'm experiencing this now. I was given Clarithromycin for tonsillitis and with in less than two days I went to a hypo-manic episode. So the doctor gave me Penicillin instead (better) now I'm sleepy all the time. Have to do this for next 3-4 days.
I also get unbalanced to Amoxicillin. All just break my sleep and my head starts to run.
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