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Subject:
Medicinal compatibility
Category: Health Asked by: heyphil-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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18 Aug 2004 02:32 PDT
Expires: 17 Sep 2004 02:32 PDT Question ID: 389357 |
I have Crohns disease and take 1gm Pentasa (Mexalizine) 3 times daily. I am in the Czech Republic and have been prescribed Entizol (metronidazolum) for something called Vibria. I am having a lot of difficulty finding out about this second medication or the condition (Vibria) which it is aiming to treat. I do not know how to price this info either.. Any information would help | |
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Subject:
Re: Medicinal compatibility
From: luntes-ga on 18 Aug 2004 06:30 PDT |
Vibria is plural to vibrio. |
Subject:
Re: Medicinal compatibility
From: mdpa173-ga on 18 Aug 2004 18:11 PDT |
i know nothing of crohn's, but i can tell you that metronidazole should not be used with even a tiny amount of alcohol - alcohol plus metronidazole is very toxic - in fact it is used to treat alcoholics (or at least used to be, in the form of antabuse). i can't say anything definite about metro.. interacting with your Crohn's medicine. if i told you my best guess is not to worry about that particular interaction, i would be giving specific medical advice. by the way my personal trust in medical care in czech republic and poland is very low, sorry. |
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Re: Medicinal compatibility
From: ac67-ga on 19 Aug 2004 12:47 PDT |
Actually, antabuse is a different medication - disulfiram. However, metronidazole has a similar effect. Warning labels will often say it is a disulfiram-like effect. Using alcohol while you are on metronidazole or shortly after you stop, can cause severe vomiting and other problems. Generally won't kill you, but may make you wish you were dead. There is a vaginal infection called Campylobacter fetus, used to be called Vibrio fetus, which was more recognized in the veterinary community, but has become more recognized as a human pathogen also, so this may be what it is. Males are often asymptomatic, but can reinfect a partner if not also treated, which is why you would be treated. I do not find anything which says there is an interaction between the two meds, which doesn't mean that there can't be, only that it hasn't been described. I would definitely make the physician prescribing these meds aware and ask if there is any known reaction, but it will most likely be safe. |
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Re: Medicinal compatibility
From: pinkfreud-ga on 19 Aug 2004 13:17 PDT |
I think it is quite unlikely that you will have an adverse reaction to these two drugs. There could even be a positive effect, since mesalazine and metronidazole are sometimes prescribed together for the treatment of Crohn's disease: "There is strong evidence linking diet with Crohn's disease but the mechanism and nature of this link remains unclear. ... Mesalazine and metronidazole are the drugs for which most supportive evidence is available. The individual trials of mesalazine have generally proved inconclusive and meta-analyses have been needed to demonstrate a significant beneficial effect (approximately halving the relapse rate at 1 year). More recent large controlled studies performed after the meta-analyses however have again proved negative and the benefit is probably more modest than the meta-analyses suggested. Metronidazole, 20 mg/day for the first 3 months after surgery, has been shown to reduce relapse by just over one-third with a beneficial effect that was surprisingly sustained throughout a 3 year follow-up period... A 3 month course of oral metronidazole plus continued maintenance with oral mesalazine can be justified on current evidence but further studies are needed." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9704162&dopt=Citation |
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