Does anyone know if rifampin is used for anything besides bart?
Posted by Amanda (Member # 14107) on :
According to Dr B's medical guidelines, posted on the ILADS webside, rifampin can potentially be effectrive agaisnt Bart, Lyme, and also Erlichia in combination with doxy I believe.
Posted by Erica741 (Member # 15186) on :
Oh interesting Amanda! I hadn't read that.
My LLMD uses rifabutin for Lyme & Bart (BLO), and I'd assume rifampin is similar enough to hit the same infections.
Posted by karenl (Member # 17753) on :
Yes, it kills chlamydia pneumonia very well. If you get a bad herx you could have cpn as well especially when you find some little red and brownish dots on your skin.
Posted by BoxerMom (Member # 25251) on :
I thought it worked for Chlamydia Pneumoniae! Thanks for that info.
Every time I take Rifampin, I hack up loads of biofilm. (Pretty, huh?) And I had constant bronchitis before my Lyme diagnosis.
It's the classic drug for Tuberculosis, in case you've got any of that in your mix.
Probably not. I don't think many of us have TB.
But you never know...
Posted by eightybarb (Member # 24968) on :
quote:Originally posted by karenl: Yes, it kills chlamydia pneumonia very well. If you get a bad herx you could have cpn as well especially when you find some little red and brownish dots on your skin.
Sorry to hijack. What is cpn. I have brown spots on my fore arms. I have showed them to m LLMD and to my thyroid doctor. The said I don't need to worry.
Posted by mojo (Member # 9309) on :
My Lyme Dr. says it hits Lyme very well, too.
Posted by Starfall1969 (Member # 17353) on :
I have lyme and ehrlichia for sure, and my LLMD has me on doxy and rifampin.
Posted by janet thomas (Member # 7122) on :
I copied this from one of Bea's posts
1: J S Afr Vet Assoc. 2000 Mar;71(1):53-7. Related Articles, Links
Screening of five drugs for efficacy against Babesia felis in experimentally infected cats.
Penzhorn BL, Lewis BD, Lopez-Rebollar LM, Swan GE.
Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa. [email protected]
The efficacy of 5 drugs was tested against experimental Babesia felis infection in domestic cats. Two of the drugs, rifampicin and a sulphadiazine-trimethoprim combination, appeared to have an anti-parasitic effect, but were inferior to primaquine. The other 3 drugs, buparvaquone, enrofloxacin and danofloxacin, had no significant anti-babesial effect.
PMID: 10949519 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Posted by LSG Scott (Member # 21624) on :
so does rifabutin hit chlamydia pneumonia as good as rifampin does ???
thanks Scott
Posted by blinkie (Member # 14470) on :
Janet! You're so resourceful! Great find..thank you.