hi When taking Avelox for my upper respitory infection, & bronchitis, my heart beat, became so rapid I had to stop taking the Avelox .i have an inhaler for my COPD & take Claritin D Cefizil does not work for the chest cold symptoms only for my ear infections. What antibioitic would you recommend for me? Avelox did work when I was able to take it.
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. I advise you not to take antibiotics without culture and sensitivity report. COPD is chronic progressive lung disease. It actually decreases the lung immunity and defense. So recurrent respiratory infections are very common in COPD patients. So better to get done sputum culture to know which organism is causing infection and then get done sensitivity report to guide antibiotic therapy. Haphazard use of antibiotics will increase Chat Doctor. You should take adult respiratory vaccines like pneumococcal and influenza to prevent recurrent lung infection. So better to consult pulmonologist first and discuss all these, rather than taking antibiotics.