Chronic Blepharitis

“Is your face always that red?” I had heard this question hundreds of times throughout my life by family, friends, and the occasional stranger, but never by a medical professional. So when the physician assistant I had been seeing to treat a recurring case of strep throat asked me this same question, I thought she was just making an innocent inquiry like so many others had before. I gave her the same answer I gave everyone who asked. “Yes, sometimes it gets worse when I’m stressed or if I’m in the sun, but for the most part it stays close to this shade of red.”

In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.

Azithromycin (Zithromax) 500 mg IVPB q24h for~ 2 days then 500 mg PO for~ 7 days

Antibiotics, composed of microorganisms such as streptomycin and penicillin, kill other infectious microorganisms in the human body. At one point, antibiotics were considered to have “basically wiped out infection in the United States”, but due to their overuse and evolutionary

She has also been taking Minocin for rosacea, 50 mg twice weekly. She has been on higher doses of Tetracycline in the past with out problem.

According to Epocrates, the drug of choice would be amoxicillin (Amoxil), which is in the penicillin family. If failed treatment occurs, a higher dosage of amoxicillin should be prescribed or the drug should be changed to amoxicillin/clavulanate (Augmentin). This should be tried before changing to a different drug class (Epocrates, 2014).

Cultures are an effective way of guiding the Infectious Disease specialist to which antibiotics that are to be used to treat the patient with MRSA by looking at the type of strain that the patient has. The culture can also be tested for susceptibility to a variety of antibiotics. Surgery may be required to debride and drain the pus filled skin from the infected area, while antibiotics, such as vancomycin, linezolid, daptomycin, quinupristin/dalfopristin, clindomycin (as well as many other sulfa drugs and tetracyclines) could be prescribed to help eradicate the infection. Some antibiotics that are used to treat MRSA are only available intravenously. Unfortunately, some high-powered antibiotics are developing resistance to MRSA infections. Because of this, Vancomycin is no longer a sure treatment for MRSA due to questions surrounding its effectiveness. Patients that are prescribed antibiotics should never stop taking their antibiotics, even if they are starting to feel better. These infections are extremely dormant and are prone to reoccur if they develop resistance to the

Moreover, treatment for patients with CAP that has ≥ 25 percent macrolide resistance, with no major comorbidities, no antibiotic use within the last three months and do not require hospitalization, include doxycycline 100 mg orally twice daily for five to seven days (File, 2017).

Used to treat heartburn, upset or sour stomach, peptic ulcer and related pain, gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD). It is also used kidney problems to reduce phosphate levels.

Rosacea is a “long-term disease” which affects the face and in severe cases the eyes (U.S. National Library of Medicine 2016). Whenever symptoms arise, many might think of it as acne due to the striking resemblance in appearance. Symptoms that come with rosacea include redness in the face, broken capillaries, acne, swollen nose, thick skin, and red itchy eyes (U.S. National Library of Medicine 2016). Frequent flushing is another early sign of the disorder and should be checked for the chronic illness. Currently there is no exact cause to why rosacea occurs; however, researchers know that the disease is caused by irritants on the skin (WebMD 2005). Further research has shown that those who tend to develop rosacea are

It contains anti-inflammatory compounds such as quercetin and rutin, and compounds that may act as an antiviral or immunity stimulant.

It’s a common skin disorder that involves the back, neck and face’s sebaceous glands. The majority of folks who are affected by acne also suffer with blackheads, cysts, pimples and zits.

Antibiotics are amongst the most important medical discoveries and their introduction represents a remarkable success story (Hedin, 2011). The term antibiotics literally means against life (Walsh, 2000). Thus antibiotics can be used against any microbe such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. However, some people use the term to only apply to bacteria, but in this paper, the more appropriate term will be used.

The temporary relief of long-standing prostatitis by antibiotics has been attributed to an intrinsic anti-inflammatory effect. Fluoroquinolones are the mainstay of prostatitis treatment. Although they exhibit some anti-inflammatory effects, they also exhibit pro-inflammatory effects. In some cases the pro-inflammatory effects have been a key component of fluoroquinolone effectiveness. So an intrinsic anti-inflammatory effect cannot be attributed to this family of

The most common disease affecting the eyelid is edema. This is due to a hypersensitivity reaction caused by exposure of the eye to various chemicals (cosmetics), plant allergens, or particles in the atmosphere. Inflammation of eye lid margin, also called as blepharitis is another important clinical condition. The common causes of blepharitis can be bacteria, sebaceous secretions from skin or localized allergic reactions. The ulcerative type of blepharitis usually involves staphylococcal infection and nonulcerative type is associated with seborrhea of face and scalp 13. Stye or Hordeolum is another acute localized infection affecting eyelid hair follicles and sebaceous glands. The causative organism for stye most commonly is staphylococcus aureus