Diflucan ?

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Hi

I just wanted to bounce this off someone here. We were given a prescription for

diflucan for my ASD son and used about 14 days worth until he got irritable and

broke out in a rash. I decided to do the herbal rotation for antifungal

support. In the mean time I couldn't help but think about how

diflucan(fluconazole) has flu in its name which usually is means flouride. I

looked it up and found yes its a flouride drug. I was told by my DAN doc to not

let a dentist use flouride with my son. Is diflucan any safer than giving a

child flouride from the dentist etc.. I also read an article from the ARI where

a child on the spectrum regressed with anesthesia that was derived from

flouride. So I guess my new Doc(DAN!) will probably say I'm worrying about

nothing and this drug will help more than it can harm. Any thoughts on this..

Angelique

Medicines

Many common pharmaceuticals used in medicine are fluorinated. The list of

fluorinated drugs number in the hundreds but the more common ones include

Celebrix, Cipro, Diflucan, Prozac, Dalmane, Lipitor, and nearly all of the

halogenated general anesthetics. Depending on the molecular formula, these drugs

contain from 3% to 17% fluorine by weight. Some have been shown to lose free

fluoride from defluorination by cytochrome p450 enzymes (ez, et al, 1997

and Pradhan, et al, 1995). Most fluorinated general anesthetics elevate serum

Fluoride but some to levels that pose risks to kidney function, at least during

the fluoride exposure (Nishiyama and Hanaoka, 1998).