Penicillin allergy
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:23 am
Hello,
My stomach problems started in the 3rd month of this year, when I started to develop various symptoms: stomach cramps, stomach ache, nausea, burning sensation and bloating in the upper abdomen area. Since the symptoms started during the lockdown period due to the coronavirus pandemic, I could not go to the doctor. I've eliminated processed foods from my diet, I've stopped drinking coffee and alcohol. Things were starting to get better, but without any major progress. I finally decided to go to a specialist and in July I did an endoscopy. Specialist did not take sample for the biopsy, he just told me that I have chronic antral gastritis due to helicobacter pylori. Endoscopy finding also states: reactive bulbopathie and gastroptosis. He prescribed to me, since I have penicillin alergy, clarithromycin 500, metronidazole 500 mg both twice a Day for 7 days, Pantoprazole 20 mg x2 for 2 months, and he told me if I find bismuth subcitrate 120mg 4x, to take it during 21 days (I managed to find bismuth on the second day of therapy).
I think I have used metronidazole and clarithromycin for other conditions in the past before this specific therapy. Is 7 days of therapy with the addition of bismuth sufficient if there is dual resistance to antibiotics? My symptoms approved a little bit, but still have stomach discomfort, fullness after meals, sometimes morning nausea and burning sensations. I noticed, after I finished therapy, that thick white coating on my tongue dissapeared, and also long lasting skin symptoms on the face and scalp, pruritus, condition similar to seborrheic dermatitis vanished. 2 months have passed since finishing the antibiotics, a month and a half since bismuth and one month since Pantoprazole, I plan to do a control eradication test next week. There is no available urease breath test in my region, is a stool test a reliable alternative?
My stomach problems started in the 3rd month of this year, when I started to develop various symptoms: stomach cramps, stomach ache, nausea, burning sensation and bloating in the upper abdomen area. Since the symptoms started during the lockdown period due to the coronavirus pandemic, I could not go to the doctor. I've eliminated processed foods from my diet, I've stopped drinking coffee and alcohol. Things were starting to get better, but without any major progress. I finally decided to go to a specialist and in July I did an endoscopy. Specialist did not take sample for the biopsy, he just told me that I have chronic antral gastritis due to helicobacter pylori. Endoscopy finding also states: reactive bulbopathie and gastroptosis. He prescribed to me, since I have penicillin alergy, clarithromycin 500, metronidazole 500 mg both twice a Day for 7 days, Pantoprazole 20 mg x2 for 2 months, and he told me if I find bismuth subcitrate 120mg 4x, to take it during 21 days (I managed to find bismuth on the second day of therapy).
I think I have used metronidazole and clarithromycin for other conditions in the past before this specific therapy. Is 7 days of therapy with the addition of bismuth sufficient if there is dual resistance to antibiotics? My symptoms approved a little bit, but still have stomach discomfort, fullness after meals, sometimes morning nausea and burning sensations. I noticed, after I finished therapy, that thick white coating on my tongue dissapeared, and also long lasting skin symptoms on the face and scalp, pruritus, condition similar to seborrheic dermatitis vanished. 2 months have passed since finishing the antibiotics, a month and a half since bismuth and one month since Pantoprazole, I plan to do a control eradication test next week. There is no available urease breath test in my region, is a stool test a reliable alternative?