Cephalosporins
 

I was wondering about the safety of Cephalosporins and causing neuropathy. I have not been able to find anything related.

I talked to my Gastro doctor today at my visit.

Oh, I thought it sounded familiar. That is actually the only family of meds. I can take. I have always taken Duricef. Last time, I seemed to have a bit of a reaction in my knuckles. For many years before I did fine.

I am not finding much on PN and cephalosporins either.

Perhaps only if there is an allergic reaction. Allergic reactions set off histamine and inflammatory cytokines which attack tissues in the body. So that is always possible that PN would be one form of damage.

However all antibiotics are capable of damaging mitochondria to some extent research is finding. Cephalosporins work on bacteria in a way similar to amoxicillin, and amox has been implicated in mito damage in autistic children. Not proven yet, but implicated.

My son is autism-spectrum, and he had a violent allergic reaction to amoxicillin as a toddler. His hands and feet swelled up like balloons. He was, and is, allergic to many things.

I'm just thrilled to have more meds to choose from in case of an infection. I have always taken Duricef so I just forgot that is one of the Cephs.

I do know there are some very dangerous ones like Levaquin and that group, I know that too well.:mad: I was wanting to have something to use and now I have some choices since the flor. meds are out of the question now. Would be great to never need an antibiotic for the rest of my life, but that is probably not going to happen.