There are several ways that heavy growth of staphylococcus aureus can be treated. Some medicines used are methicillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, and flucloxacillin.

Uninfected and relatively superficial CFIs may be treated with oral penicillin plus dicloxacillin or Augmentin. For infected CFIs, parenteral penicillin G is usually given together with nafcillin or cefuroxime.

You should not drink while on nafcillin (or any other antibiotic for that matter).

One of the biggest reasons they tell you not to drink on antibiotics is it puts too much stress on your liver.

If you've ever noticed that maybe you get intoxicated faster or feel a 'different kind' of drunk while on antibiotics it is basically your body freaking out over trying to keep yourself healthy.

Antibiotics kill bacterial infections within us but that does not mean that they are good for every part of the body, including the liver. (hows that for a circular argument? Thanks biology)

"Ciprofloxacillin" doesn't exist. Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic often used for respiratory and urinary tract infections. The "-cillin" suffix is afixed to medications in the penicillin class (amoxicillin, piperacillin, nafcillin), which are beta-lactams rather than fluoroquinolones. They are commonly used against skin and skin-structure infections. -Friendly Neighborhood Pharmacist

List of Penicillins

· Penicillin G

· Penicillin V

· Penicillin VK

· Nafcillin

· Oxacillin

· Cloxacillin

· Dicloxacillin

· Ampicillin

· Amoxicillin

· Bacampacillin

· Carbenicillin indanyl

· Ticarcillin

· Mezlocillin

· Piperacillin

Cephalosporin drugs that are closely related to Penicillin - it is not 100%, but penicillin allergic can be allergic as well. So some drugs in each class are:

· Cephalothin

· Cefamandole

· Cefotaxime

· Cefepime

Vancomycin is an antibiotic in its own class, outside of Penicillin class of drugs.