Lisa Updike posts on a mother of an 18 month old who is being told to wean
before treating her eye infection with Avelox.

Avelox is a fluoroquinolone (US spelling?) antimicrobial, and seems to be
quite new.  These drugs are big guns, for serious systemic infections, and
it sounds dubious to me whether the infection she has, truly warrants its
use.

Has the mother considered treating her eyes with expressed breastmilk?  It
can't hurt, can it?  And it might do the trick.  It is now standard advice
in all hospitals I know of in Norway, if babies have plugged tear ducts, to
use freshly expressed breastmilk as the first line of treatment.

If it were me (but I am a difficult-to-please patient) I would get another
medical opinion, preferably from someone less recently visited by a Bayer
representative.  They make Avelox.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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