Question 1

what is the definition or description of: streptomycin overdose?

Accepted Answer

Streptomycin O/D: An overdose occurs when an excessive / dangerous dose of a drug / substance is used. Steoptomycin O/D sx's may include:   "difficulty breathing; dizziness; lightheadedness; ringing in the ears." REF:   http://www.ndrugs.com/?s=streptomycin&amp;t=overdose

Question 2

streptomycin seem not to be sensitive to stapp spp growth after 5days of injection and i still feel pain?

Accepted Answer

: Streptomycin for staph infection is not the first choice in the US because of its side effects and we have better antibiotics for staph infection, either MSSA or MRSA. Can you elaborate your problem from staph infection, is it an abscess or cellulitis or wound infection?

Question 3

are streptomycin and tetracycline part of the treatment of e. coli?

Accepted Answer

See below: Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic given IV or im and used to treat tuberculosis and enterococcus.
Tetracycline is a bacteriostatic antibiotic still in common use today to treat many types of infections.
E.Coli are bacteria that are a normal part of the bacterial flora of all mammals including man.  Shiga toxin producing e. Coli from cattle cause bloody diarrhea and hus.

Question 4

what exactly is streptomycin?

Accepted Answer

Aminoglycoside: This antibiotic was one of the earliest discovered and used primarily to treat tuberculosis.  It is also used to treat some very severe bacterial infections, but because it is quite toxic, its use is limited.

Question 5

what is streptomycin used against?

Accepted Answer

Streptomycin: Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that has been used to treat myobacterium avium,  Mycobacterium Tuberculosis,  Plague, Brucellosis, Tularemia, Rat bite fever, Burkholderian infection, Chancroid, granuloma inguinale and a # of other infections.

Question 6

if someone has taken too much streptomycin, how does the overdose affect him?

Accepted Answer

Streptomycin: Major side effects are deafness and kidney failure.

Question 7

why does streptomycin cause ototoxicity in babies?

Accepted Answer

Ototoxic in all: Streptomycin can ototoxic in all ages of patients. It is specifically more vestibulotoxic, meaning that it disrupts balance more than hearing. There is evidence that patients with impaired renal function are more prone to toxic effects. Studies indicate that cochleotoxic effects of aminoglycosides are less common in neonates and children than adults. The exact reason for this is unknown.

Question 8

why streptomycin should not be administered in patients with myasthenia?

Accepted Answer

Effect on junction: Streptomycin is one of the aminoglycosides which is a class of anitbiotics that affects the neuromuscular junction.  This is the area involved in myasthenia gravis.

More specifically streptomycin can block the acetylcholine receptor and can also prevent the release of acetylcholine. 

See more at: http://archive.Ispub.Com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-neurology/volume-10-number-2.

Question 9

is there any other drug i can use to stop the growth of staphylococcus spp , i have used streptomycin and its not working?

Accepted Answer

: You have asked similar questions several times now, all with too little detail to understand your situation. Streptomycin is rarely used these days, and almost never for staph. Apparently you have an infection involving the penis? Are you sure it's staph and the antibiotics is really streptomycin? What country are you in? Ask for referral to an infectious diseases specialist. Good luck.

Question 10

what is the treatment for streptomycin overdose?

Accepted Answer

No direct treatment: If excessive amounts of streptomycin have been received, they will be excreted by the body and time will prevail.  If they created toxic damage, primarily to the vestibular division of the acoustic (8th) nerve or to the kidneys, only part of the damage is reversible.

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