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Can Cipro Have An Adverse Effect On A Patient Diagnosed With Aphasia?

My sister has a form of alzhimers called aphasia. She recently took cipro for a UTI and seems to have gotten much worse in her verbal skills. Could cipro have an effect on her or is this perhaps coincidence and she is just slipping away on course. Her mind is still functioning fairly well but can t verbally communicate. Hard to see this happen.
Tue, 31 Jan 2017
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ciprofloxacin is not known to cause or worsen verbal skills in a patient of Alzheimers- Aphasia. I would like to look for any other cause before attributing it to ciprofloxacin. If not found any other obvious reason, worsening verbal skills is seen as natural course of Alzheimers. And worsening verbal skills with ciprofloxacin is just a coincidence in my opinion. Also i would like to suggest you to consult your treating psychiatrist about this worsening to rule out any pathology with brain imaging.
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Can Cipro Have An Adverse Effect On A Patient Diagnosed With Aphasia?

ciprofloxacin is not known to cause or worsen verbal skills in a patient of Alzheimers- Aphasia. I would like to look for any other cause before attributing it to ciprofloxacin. If not found any other obvious reason, worsening verbal skills is seen as natural course of Alzheimers. And worsening verbal skills with ciprofloxacin is just a coincidence in my opinion. Also i would like to suggest you to consult your treating psychiatrist about this worsening to rule out any pathology with brain imaging.