Re: Antibiotics for PseudomonasMAIA and others on list

[Guest guest]

Usually by intensive and extensive culturing; Pseudomonas itself is usually

treated

with Tobramycin or Gentamicin, two of a class of drugs called

aminoglycosides. Usu

ally the patient cultures at least some degree of staphylococcus or other

varieties of

bacteria--there are many--and one of the cephalosporings, often ceftazadine

is used.

If yeasts, funguses, molds, aspergillus is cultured, or candida albicans,

then a med

appropriate to those classes of plant-growths are used; sometimes other meds

from different families of antibiotics or anti-fungal medications are added

as resistance to

some medications develops. Colistin is one of those medications which is

often used in alternation with the newest form of Tobramycin, TOBI, for

example. Some

people do well on inhaled Tobramycin; some do well on the quinolones, such as

CIPROfloxacin or Levaquin; these can be taken in tablet, capsule or " pill "

form. And

so on and on. I hope, now that all of us are thoroughly confused, that

someone else

will state it more succinctly. The treatment also has to do not only with

WHAT the

patient cultures, but to what degree they culture it and for how long.

Good luck with all this,

n Rojas