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A member asked:
If someone misused antibiotics , ie dangerous weight loss, hair loss,dry heaving is there any hope of recovery ?
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What kind of misuse.: Symptoms should stop soon after stopping the antibiotics. Not enough info-how long? how much? what antibiotic?
Answered 8/17/2014
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Antibiotic abuse: What type of abuse or which antibiotic. Unclear if the symptoms has any relationship with the described symptoms or an immunological reaction to the antibiotics
Answered 8/25/2014
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