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How should patients be prepared for a throat culture?
The patient does not need to avoid food or fluids before the test. Recent gargling or treatment with antibiotics, however, will affect the culture results. The laboratory should be notified if the patient has been recently taking antibiotic medications.
How can you avoid taking food with preservatives?
Eat fresh food, avoid preserved food
Should you eat eggs when taking antibiotics?
You may or may not eat the eggs, when on antibiotics. Eggs has nothing to do with antibiotics. Some antibiotics should be taken on empty stomach like penicillin V or macrolides. In that case eggs are considered as food.
Can you take antibiotics with soy milk?
No, you cannot take any antibiotics with soy milk. Calcium has been shown to block/interfere with the absorption of antibiotics. Do not ingest any food products containing calcium unless it is 4-6 hours before taking your antibiotic. But, if you can take your antibiotics with milk (e.g. penicillin, bactrim, etc..) you can take it with soy milk. Some antibiotics couldn't be taken with calcium, like quinolones (cipro, levaquin, avelox, ..) and you should avoid soy milk 2-3 hours apart in this situation.
What should you eat after taking misoprostol pill?
You can eat anything you want but avoid alcohol.
What foods should you avoid while taking INH for TB treatment?
There is no any such list of food articles to be avoided while you are taking INH for tuberculosis treatment. In general you give nutritious food to the tuberculosis patient.
Does yogurt weaken the effectiveness of antibiotics?
Some antibiotics should be taken on an empty stomach to be effective (a certain time before food) Others should be taken with or after food. Your doctor or chemist will advise you how to take your prescribed antibiotic or you can look at the instructions on the leaflet that comes in the box with the antibiotics and you should follow this advice. Treat yogurt as just another food when following these instructions, there is nothing special about yogurt in this regard. However, sometimes it helps to eat live yogurt as part of your food while taking antibiotics and afterwards because the antibiotics can kill off friendly bacteria that normally live in your intestines and some people believe that the bacteria that cause milk to turn into yogurt can help to repopulate your intestinal bacterial flora.
Can you eat dairy products while on amoxicillin?
Augmentin should be taken with food, dairy products should have no effect on Augmentin. Some drugs should not be taken within 1-2 hours of dairy products or any calcium, magnesium, or aluminum containing materials because they will interfere with absorption of the drug.
What precautions should be taken after tooth replantation?
Antibiotics may also be given for infection. The patient should avoid rinsing the mouth, spitting, or smoking for the first 24 hours after surgery. He or she should limit food to a soft diet for the next few days.
What food to avoid for How do you avoid food?
Foods to avoid are flour and dairy. One can avoid these foods by preparing in advance and taking lunch such as fruit with them. Most fast foods contains flour, dairy and salt. If you make an effort to avoid these three foods you will also avoid fast food easily.
Why are antibiotics in animal food bad?
Antibiotics in animal food is bad because the dseases and bacteria get used to the antibiotics in the feed and the evolve and learn how to beat it and therefore the antibiotics in animals feed has no longer an affect on the bacteria. You should only use antibiotics when completely necessary they are not to be used to prevent, only to cure.
what are some of the food diabetic people should avoid?
It's not exactly what you should avoid, it's what you should eat. Diabetes is about taking care of your sugar intake and there are tons of websites out there to help with what you should eat. If a meal has tons of sugar, don't eat it. Here is a link to a website that can help you find food that a diabetic person could eat: http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/planning-meals/diabetes-meal-plans-and-a-healthy-diet.html
