How many of you dxed have taken amoxicillin?

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I took it a few months ago for river fever and i was fine. It cured my river fever quite well too

I have taken Amoxocillian as an adult and had an allergic reaction to it. I have had an allergic reaction to every single antibiotic I have ever taken.

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My son lived on it for the first 5 years of his life...thankfully, he was diagnosed...By the way, even AFTER we found out at age 3 that he was allergic to penicillin, drs continued to prescribe it to him and tell us to "just give it to him that it was fine!"

I will say that ALL the ASDs kids I have met have allergies of some type...food, pollen, etc...all with tests to prove it. I know myself I now know I have MANY allergies my son has, because we get the same symptoms...but as a child I was never tested for allergies.

Whatamess--you've met me; I have no allergies.

Pretty simple answer there: It kills off bacteria, including the symbiotic bacteria that live in your intestine and help you digest food. Since you had much less bacteria than you were used to, you couldn't digest your food as well. You got better over time as the bacteria multiplied and got back to a reasonable level. If you took amoxicillin again, you wouldn't be as sick the second time because more of the bacteria would be resistant to it. Some people recommend probiotics (which basically means drinking more bacteria to replace the old) but seriously, they'll recover on their own unless you literally killed every last one, which is pretty hard to do. They're tough little buggers.

Amoxocillin didn't exist when I was little and I didn't develop an allergy until I was 16 (nothing identifiable triggered it). I didn't try amoxocillin until I was 26 or 27 and I didn't have any adverse effects.