'Lincomycin': instructions for use

As for such a drug as "Linkomycin", I would start with a personal review of it. Unfortunately, medical education is not an insurance against diseases and a while ago I was ill for a long time. These were the consequences of sepsis caused by staphylococcus. Then, after long attempts to treat a variety of drugs, surgical intervention, "Lincomycin" came to the rescue.

The instruction on the use of this drug does inform that it is active in infections caused by staphylococcus. I had osteomyelitis of the spine and purulent arthritis of the knee joint, accompanied by severe pain. Some medical authorities believed that this was incurable. It is a pity that I was not immediately assigned "Linkomycin", the instruction for the application of which included mine, to put it mildly, ailments: septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, infections of joints and bones.

Other indications of the use of lincomycin:

• Infections of the respiratory tract, organs - ENT, in particular pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis, otitis media.
• Infected wounds, mastitis, purulent infections of skin and soft tissues, abscesses, furunculosis and other infections.

The expression "and others" here is very even to the point. Personally, after many examinations, including a computer tomograph, numerous blood tests, I could not clearly explain what processes are happening to me, and some doctors said that I should not have such (intense, prolonged, severe pains).

You can say that I was in some ways lucky. The treatment was entrusted to a young woman doctor who wrote a work on the treatment of osteomyelitis with the use of the drug "Lincomycin". Instructions for use in my case was taken by a doctor not from the directory, but from some German medical journal. But, at first let's learn about the traditional use of this drug, which I at one time recognized as almost a panacea for all infections.

Experiment, however, do not advise anyone. In my case, the healing happened with the help of a good medical specialist. So, "Linkomycin" - application:

• Capsules are taken on an empty stomach in approximately one hour or half an hour before meals. You can also take it after eating two hours later.
• The daily dose for children under the age of fourteen years is calculated as follows: 1 kg of body weight is 30 mg of the drug. It is taken for three, four times. For adults, "Linkomycin" is prescribed for taking ½ gram every eight hours, which is 3 times a day.
• With regard to the duration of treatment with this drug, it is one to two, and in the treatment of osteomyelitis - three weeks.
• In ampoules is used by intramuscular injection, also three times a day.

Here you need to make a little clarification. As far as I understand, my case was unusual, but the article published in a foreign medical journal described this situation along with other cases of osteomyelitis treatment of the spine. It was devoted solely to this pathology. In it, for treatment was offered exactly "Lincomycin", the instruction for its use for the treatment of osteomyelitis was radically different from the traditional one.

The drug should be taken by intramuscular injection, within a month, 2 ml in the morning and 2 ml in the evening. Thus, it accumulates in the bones and after healing prevents recurrence of infection. Personally, I showed signs of infection after about ten days, and after a month of such treatment, the pathology no longer returns.

Speaking about the drug "Lincomycin", we should add that he is active against gram-positive microorganisms. It is an antibiotic that belongs to the group of lincosamides. Gram-negative bacteria have no effect on the drug, just like on fungi, protozoa. Personally, I perfectly tolerated the treatment with this medication and subsequently several times I was treated independently by traditional instructions.

But, judging by this instruction, "Lincomycin" has side effects that can be expressed in the discomfort of the digestive tract, the liver. Possible nausea and vomiting, the presence of skin rashes, itching. In some cases, there were dizziness, weakness. Contraindication is hypersensitivity to the drug described, as well as to clindamycin. Basically, however, "Lincomycin" is well tolerated.

If there are problems with the liver, kidneys, then the interval between doses the drug should be increased, and the daily dose of it should be reduced. Your doctor will do it! Be sound!