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Keeping it down.

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MJ’s urine culture came back with what the doctor termed "dismaying" news:  she has a strain of E. coli that resists most of the oral antibiotics.  There is one choice, nitrofurantoin, and we’re trying it.  She just threw up the last half-dose I gave her, so in a few minutes I’m going to try again.  If she fails to keep enough of her doses down, we’ll have to go back to the hospital for another IV.

She really looks much better, and the fever is gone.  So even though her bug turned out to be resistant to every antibiotic she got in the broad-spectrum IV on Wednesday, that infusion did help some.

She’s very drowsy.   I guess that’s ok, a side effect.

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  1. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    It breaks my heart to hear that MJ’s going through this. I hope she can keep down the oral antibiotics. Let me know if I can do any research for you, since I’ve got full access to all the medical journals.
    On that note, I’ve always wondered how we get E. coli in our systems to begin with. We’re not born with it, and we certainly don’t produce it. I know there are always a few of the little bugs in the air and I’m sure even in properly cooked food. But how does a breast-fed baby get it to begin with? Can bacteria we breathe in make their way to the proper place in the digestive tract? And how would little MJ have picked up such a nasty, drug-resistant variety?

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    bearing

    Thanks Lori. Both Mark and I have access to the journals, too, and I had my friend the epidemiologist do a pubmed search already for me. What we’ve learned so far is that the treatment of the acute infection is going exactly how we would have chosen to do it had we had time to consider it, which is good news, and that we have maybe 2-3 weeks to figure out what to do re: follow-up stuff.
    Good to hear from you.

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