Has anyone heard of any bad reactions with KETEK ABX for teens? I heard there were a couple cases in CT that may have been connected with fatalities. So many pro's & con's...Hard decision for a lyme Mom to make Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I don't think *I* would even risk taking that one myself. Any other way??
Posted by 'Kete-tracker (Member # 17189) on :
That's a tough one. A partially synthesized erythromycin. Tough on the B.B. bugs for sure (StRONG herxes), but makes many folks' liver enzyme numbers climb quickly, not to mention you have to have your heart rythm checked beforehand to measure the "Qt" interval... to make sure it isn't too short. If it IS (rare), you can develop "heart block". Not a good thing.
I'd reserve that 1 for adults-only, with otherwise healthy hearts & livers.... and monitor them-there organs whilst 1 is on it!
Posted by jkmom (Member # 14004) on :
My daughter and I were both prescribed it at different times.
Our doctor uses it a lot, from what I can tell, and I trust her. She warned me that I would hear some horror stories when I picked it up at the pharmacy, but that she had found it to be effective and not as risky as it was made out to be. She checks liver enzymes regularly. The pharmacy didn't say anything to me about the Ketek until I filled a prescription for Mepron. Then, they only asked me if I was being monitored by a doctor for these meds.
We did not end up giving it to our daughter, because we went with a different LLMD at the time.
I took it for a few months without problems, but it didn't help my muscle twitching like Biaxin or zith do, so we switched back to zith.
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