Antibiotic Could Be Dangerous For Diabetics

Filed in archive News by Rhys on March 2, 2006

Doctors and researchers are cautioning diabetic patients against the use of the popular antibiotic Tequin, used most often for respiratory and bladder infections.

Not only has the drug been shown to seriously elevate blood sugar in diabetics, but non-diabetics who took it were 17 times more likely to develop diabetes as people who never took the drug.

One thing this reinforces is not avoiding certain medicine, but giving ourselves the proper care we deserve, so we don't get sick in the first place.

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