Antimicrobials - Quinolones

Question 1

Quinolones med timing

Answer 1

don’t take anything 6 hours before or one hour after

Question 2

List the two quinolone drugs

Answer 2

Ciprofloxacin
Levofloxacin

Question 3

Ciprofloxacin/Levofloxacin

Running in a flox of people in the DNA gy(race) to end anthrax and TB; in the race I get sunburnt, fall and tear my tendon, and I go crazy

Answer 3

-Action: inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase
-Need to know: don’t eat 6 hrs before taking or 1 hour after
-SE: tendon rupture, phototoxicity, CNS* (dizzy/confused) and candida* for women
-Take for: UTI and anthrax

Levofloxacin
-Action: inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase
-Need to know: don’t eat 6 hrs before taking or 1 hour after
SE: tendonitis and photoxicity
Taken for: UTI and second line drug against TB

Question 4

Who should avoid quinolones

Answer 4

patients younger than 18