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What Causes Diarrhea After Having Antibiotics For Ear Infection?
My 13 month old son has been poorly for over a week now managed to get him to see gp on Wednesday he says his ears are red and prescribed antibiotics amoxicillin. From Wednesday tea time he s been taking them 3 times a day and since yesterday he s had watery diarrhoea and gums are swollen with with spots under his lip and tip of his tongue. He s crying all night and doesn t eat much at all and I m now starting to get really worried.
Mon, 22 Dec 2014
dear user, thanks for your query.
loose stool is a common side effect of amoxicillin. and oral ulcer are also may be due to this drug. other cause of oral ulcer is vitamin deficiency which may occure in diarrhea.
I suggest you to change this antibiotic to cefpodoxime and also use probiotic along with this drug.
vitmin B complex and Zinc suppliment will also be benificial.
Regards- dr deepak vaishnav
loose stool is a common side effect of amoxicillin. and oral ulcer are also may be due to this drug. other cause of oral ulcer is vitamin deficiency which may occure in diarrhea.
I suggest you to change this antibiotic to cefpodoxime and also use probiotic along with this drug.
vitmin B complex and Zinc suppliment will also be benificial.
Regards- dr deepak vaishnav
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