Antibiotic allergy/side effects

thumper1
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:57:39 +0000

I’m allergic to erythromycin. I took it for 24 hours and broke out in an all body rash…looked sunburned. And it itched like crazy. But…I was not tired from the rash. I was tired because I could not sleep with the rash.

I went back to my doctor. He immediately told me to stop the meds…and to flush my system with cranberry juice. I drank a couple of gallons of it in a day or so. Rash went away.

I got a new antibiotic for my strep…because I hadn’t completed the course of treatment for that.

I would not wait to see the doctor again. Your friend needs to be sure what this rash is from…and if she didn’t complete the course of treatment for her strep…she needs to get another antibiotic to do so.