Prophylactic antibiotics

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Molly and Maggie have both been put on indefinate prophylactic

antibiotics due to their REALLY nasty sinuses. Life has become an

embarassment.....ha ha....Molly blows her nose non-stop....whereever

she is...it dawned on me the other day that she would be an

incredible disruption to a classroom if she was in school....we have

just gotten so used to it that we don't notice it. She blows without

toilet paper.....uses shirt sleeves or whatever is there....boogers

flying everywhere. We seem to have an issue over getting her to

carry kleenex....but now that their sinuses have gotten to critical

mass (eg: packed with dried blood in the morning), the doc (and I)

decided that enough was enough. SO.....they are both taking 10 days

of Keflex and then are switching to zithromax....which they will get

two days every week, once week for an indefinate ammount of time (we

have a 6 month supply).

If anyone else has their kids on a similar regimine, what are some of

the problems I can expect from this kinds of use of

antibiotics....eg: tummy aches....yeast overgrowth etc and what do

you do to combat the problems.

Terri