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Took Cipro For Prostate Infection, Had Side Effect. Prescribed Prednisone And Making It Worse. Cause?

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Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2013
Question: My husband took 4 rounds of cipro for a prostate infection. 15 days after suggestions of a possible cipro reaction and ending his cipro at this time, he was prescribed high dose prednisone. why would the prednisone make his condition worsen? And if he took 4 rounds of the cipro how long would the cipro stay in his body? Is it possible the cipro was still in his sytem when he took the prednisone 15 days later? thank you
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Answered by Dr. Pavan Kumar Gupta (52 minutes later)
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
Brief answer.....it would take 24 hours for cipro to get completely rid of your system.
Detailed answer....
The elimination half life of ciprofloxacillin is just 4 hours.It means that in four hours the level of medication would become 50%.
So for complete removal of CIPRO from your system,you need around 6 half life cycles ,which means 24 hours.
In 24 hours,CIPRO would be completely eliminated from your body,after stopping it.However this half life may take little more time,if the patient is suffering from some kidney impairment resulting in slow elimination from the body.
there is no question of remaining even a trace of CIPRO after 15 days.
I hope it helps however if you have any other specific query,please let me know.
I would be glad to address your concerns.
Best of luck
Thanks
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Took Cipro For Prostate Infection, Had Side Effect. Prescribed Prednisone And Making It Worse. Cause?

Hello,
Thanks for the query.
Brief answer.....it would take 24 hours for cipro to get completely rid of your system.
Detailed answer....
The elimination half life of ciprofloxacillin is just 4 hours.It means that in four hours the level of medication would become 50%.
So for complete removal of CIPRO from your system,you need around 6 half life cycles ,which means 24 hours.
In 24 hours,CIPRO would be completely eliminated from your body,after stopping it.However this half life may take little more time,if the patient is suffering from some kidney impairment resulting in slow elimination from the body.
there is no question of remaining even a trace of CIPRO after 15 days.
I hope it helps however if you have any other specific query,please let me know.
I would be glad to address your concerns.
Best of luck
Thanks