Hi @sshoop56 Let your oral surgeon know that you’re allergic to Amoxicillin…there are alternatives. Quite often, if a patient requires prophylactic antibitotics before dental treatment, it’s a one-time dose taken an hour before the procedure…though your oral surgeon may have a different protocol.
If you’re concerned about the side effects of the antibiotic, from my experience with having to take long term antibitoics, is to eat fat free, plain yogurt twice daily (at least 2 hours before or after the meds) while on the antibiotics and also up to a week or more after your last dosage. This helps keep a level of normalcy in your gut biome. Antibitoics aren’t discriminating…they kill all the gut bacteria, good and bad. So you want to keep up a balance of healthy bacteria. Yogurt does that! Also eating other healthy pre and probiotic foods. Fermented foods are really healthy like raw sauerkraut, kefir, add apple cider vinegar to salads, etc., and avoid refined sugars and processed foods.
I toss in berries or other fruit in the yogurt to make it palatable. If you can’t stomach plain, then flavored yogurt is ok too. Just make sure they have active yogurt cultures. A good Greek yogurt is best but even products like Activia help to keep a balance of good bacteria. The reason for the plain, no sugar yogurt, is to cut down on potential for a yeast infection.
Good luck with your extraction. Is this an upper or lower tooth? Has your dentist talked about a type of replacement tooth?