Re: Re: Lydia re genthro mycin-Lydia

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Actually Lydia, it's probably given more often than you think. They give gent

(at least this is how it was with my son) as a general antibiotic. They do the

blood work, but it takes 3 days to grow something, so they give gent as a

general antibiotic to start to fight the infection. I don't even know how many

times my son had gent. Unfortunately, we were not given any info on it. Like

that it caused deafness. My son had many, many, many infections during his time

in the hospital (he was in for 4 months). They always started with gent, just

to get something started. Once they figured out what the infection was, then

they put him on the antibiotic for that infection.

Lydia Gregoret wrote:

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Just to reassure you -- you would probably know if Ricky had the

drug or not. I believe it's only given in extreme circumstances of

life threatening infection. They don't just adminster it willy

nilly because of the risk of hearing loss. I have only known one

child who lost his hearing because of it (his loss was moderate-

severe) and he was born with a major birth defect. He had no

diaphragm so was unable to breathe on his own after he was born. He

had many surgeries and got a serious infection in the course of that

which could only be treated with gentamycin. He almost died. The

doctors were able to make a diaphragm for him out of Kevlar, and he

was an active 4-year-old by the time I met him.

Lydia

> LYdia,

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> thanks for that info. Another thing that can be

> genetically related wow... I hate that word

> genetic, LOL...........

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