Is it found efective to use abx in pulses. I mean... like first 3 weeks with abx, then week or two without, then abx again etc.
Posted by joalo (Member # 12752) on :
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Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
Some docs do this, some don't. I have pulsed some drugs in the past. Reasons to do it: because a drug might have unpleasant side effects or the herx might be too much for certain patients.
For instance, if a drug makes the patient too nauseous to continue, on a full dose everyday, then the treatment would fail. So, pulsing could give a person time to recover and continue eating to maintain normal weight, while doing treatment.
The arguments against it are usually based on suspicion that it might cause resistance. But this is less likely, maybe, if more than one drug is being used. Not monotherapy, in other words.
Posted by Hannemannn (Member # 21133) on :
Side-effects are not problem. Bacters propably protect themselves during abx treatment by hiding and by changing to cyst form, and then abx are not effective. I just wondered could you trick bacters by taking breaks. Bacters think danger is over and they show up again, and abx works better after that. True of false?
Joalo, Buried on page two? What headline?
Posted by cleo (Member # 6646) on :
Here is an article by an expert on biofilm. He talks about getting around biofilms by pulsing conventional abx in the last sentence. From personal experience.. I just changed my abx regiman by taking weekends off from abx and I am getting a huge die off by thursday and friday . I am beginning to think it is the way to go.
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