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How MAC patients have tolerated taking the 3 antibiotics
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 14 10:56am | Replies (84)Comment receiving replies
I was told or read that rifampin should be taken two hours after food or one hour before.
I have trouble sleeping and usually wake up at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., so I get up and take my
two rifampin. Then the Azithromycin and Ethambutol partially with breakfast and partially
with lunch. Started Feb. 5, so far no problems other than slight diarrhea every week or two.
I'm lactose intolerant and tried Florstor and it wiped me out.
Submitted sputum samples last week but haven't heard results yet.
Harry
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Hello Harry. I am on the same 3 antibiotics that you are and I am taking California Gold Lactobif 30. So far I am not having any nausea or diarrhea from the meds. They do not contain dairy. I buy them online from iherb.com; $22 for 60. When I started the antibiotics, it was recommended I take a probiotic but no one could tell me which strains were best for these antibiotics. I wound up researching each of them and found the recommended probiotic strains. Then researched different probiotics and finally found the California Gold Lactobif 30. I take 1 a day at least 4hrs between antibiotics.