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Can Doxcef Cause Severe Vomiting And Diarrhea With Blood In Babies?

Dear Sir/Mdm, I have my baby girl of 11 months and 23 days. She was suffering from coldness, barks & coughs and and prescribed DOXCEF-50 syrup with SINAREST syrup, NASOCLEAR on 16th this month. Before this, She was taking Homeopathy. 3 doses of 5 ml each of DOXCEF-50 syrup has been supplied to her on 16th Evening, 17th morning and after noon respectively. I write you here that by mistake, only DOXCEF-50 has been supplied. No sinarest and nasoclear. from 17th day time, Gradually side effects started. Vomitting & loose motion started gradually. Temperature increased at night. We stopped the doxcef and One dose of CROCIN syrup supplied to her. Loose motion with blood continued at night also. Then on 18th Morning I supplied Pomegranate seeds juice two spoons. But no better result. The Stools looked green, with blood. Then we took her to Doctor again at 1 PM. Stool tested as below. STOOL = YELLOW, FROTHY BLOOD = YES, MUCOUS = PRESENT [ +++ ] MICROSCOPIC LARVA, OVA, CYST = NIL Cellular exudates = PLUS CELL : 30-40 / HPF, Rbe : 2-4 / HPF Food particles = present FLORA = Grossly reduced Yeast = absent STOOL OCCULT BLOOD ANALYSIS YELLOW , Semi Solid Method : BENZIDINE TEST: Result - OCCULT BLOOD PRESENT [ ++ ] [Positive: 2 ml. blood / 150 g stool / day] Then Prescribed with ZENOTIN syrup + Enterogermina Vial + EUBIOZ Sachets + ORS On 18th Afternoon, we started treatment with these drugs. Stool hardness changed. but at night, again same type loose motion. on 19th Morning we supplied BACIGYL-N one dose in stead of ZENOTIN with one Enterogermina and EUBIOZ. The frequency of loose motion has lessened but at least 8 - 10 times today till now. Evening one small dose of 2.5 ml of BACIGYL -N has been supplied and waiting for better result. I am fearing that, due to use of DOXCEF-50 at the beginning a reaction has happened. Please guide me , what to do now? whether I should continue with these drugs or change any of the drugs. She has weight of 9.700 Kg on 16th and 9.470 Kg on 18th. Now I guess more loss of weight. She is moaning with pain at the time of delivering stool. Even if when does she vomitting, stools coming out automatically. Please reply me.
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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General & Family Physician 's  Response
Hi,

Doxcef is known to have side effect of diarrhea however I do not think the bloody diarrhea which your daughter is suffering from is due to the medicine. It could be due to some infection for which you have already started Bacigyl which has two components to cover up for the infection part. The stool test done wasn't to check the bacterial or protozoal infection and it covered only the parasites.

I would recommend to carry out a stool culture and sensitivity to see the causative organism and till then you continue the current medication. Also, I would recommend consumption of yoghurt to get the healthy bacteria back in the intestine which would help her a lot. Please ensure that she takes lots of fluids so as to avoid dehydration. If you see any signs of dehydration then take her to hospital immediately.

Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Anoop Kumar, General & Family Physician
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Can Doxcef Cause Severe Vomiting And Diarrhea With Blood In Babies?

Hi, Doxcef is known to have side effect of diarrhea however I do not think the bloody diarrhea which your daughter is suffering from is due to the medicine. It could be due to some infection for which you have already started Bacigyl which has two components to cover up for the infection part. The stool test done wasn t to check the bacterial or protozoal infection and it covered only the parasites. I would recommend to carry out a stool culture and sensitivity to see the causative organism and till then you continue the current medication. Also, I would recommend consumption of yoghurt to get the healthy bacteria back in the intestine which would help her a lot. Please ensure that she takes lots of fluids so as to avoid dehydration. If you see any signs of dehydration then take her to hospital immediately. Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Anoop Kumar, General & Family Physician