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A member asked:
I taking antibiotics cycin ciprofloxacin 500mg for cough and running nose. prescribed by doctor. is it ok?
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Antibiotics: That depends on what the doctor heard in your chest, otherwise you may have had a virus in which case the antibiocs would not have helped.
Answered 2/10/2014
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