need a quick fix guys help antibiotics?

[Spoon]

guys i just had major fever last night after diving, think it was cause i dove using just my vest and some very thin lycra pants. was fine wasnt cold at all but its the second week in a row that i have gotten sick after my dives using these garments. i also got stuck buy some sea plants so im not quite sure if i got sick form the plants or my feeling cold from the dives???

last weekend i did 3 dives 1st dive temp 83f, 2nd 85f, 3rd 86 f. i was fine first two dives but second dive i was shiverring. this was at around 430pm no sun anymore. so why did i emerge in the last dive shiverring and sick like i was going to get hypothermia? was the dsame this weekend. im attributing it to the prolonged exposure without using my full suit?? or maybe a bunch of factors that are too many to pinpoint: low tolerance, sore throat, aquatic plants? etc. etc.

anyway im resting today fever has subsided but i have my dir-f classes on tuesday its sunday now. should i take antibiotics too boost my immune system and get well? my doctor recommended it but he doesnt now the relation with diving? i will have to take this for 5 days. i cant drink but can i dive?

anyone have experience with antibiotics and diving? help

 

[Spoon]

decided to take the antibiotics. am on my frist day i know your supposed to take it for 5 dats straight but i will stop it on tuesday as my Dir-f dives are til wed.

 

[Corigan]

Uhm, I'm no doctor, but antibiotics need to be taken exactly as perscribed by your doctor. If you shorten the time or misuse them you can develop resistant strains of bacteria to certain kinds of antibiotics. Just a tad bit of info on antibiotics:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=FL00075

Interesting paragraph: "Take antibiotics exactly as prescribed. Follow your doctor's instructions in taking prescribed medication, including how many times a day and for how long. Don't stop taking the pills a few days early if you start feeling better. Not completing your full course of antibiotics adds to the antibiotic-resistance problem. A complete course of antibiotics is needed to kill all of the harmful bacteria. A shortened course of antibiotics often wipes out only the most vulnerable bacteria, which allows relatively resistant bacteria to survive and thrive."

Postpone the class, it can wait. Your Health can't.

Matt

 

[Spoon]

Uhm, I'm no doctor, but antibiotics need to be taken exactly as perscribed by your doctor. If you shorten the time or misuse them you can develop resistant strains of bacteria to certain kinds of antibiotics. Just a tad bit of info on antibiotics:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=FL00075

Interesting paragraph: "Take antibiotics exactly as prescribed. Follow your doctor's instructions in taking prescribed medication, including how many times a day and for how long. Don't stop taking the pills a few days early if you start feeling better. Not completing your full course of antibiotics adds to the antibiotic-resistance problem. A complete course of antibiotics is needed to kill all of the harmful bacteria. A shortened course of antibiotics often wipes out only the most vulnerable bacteria, which allows relatively resistant bacteria to survive and thrive."

Postpone the class, it can wait. Your Health can't.

Matt

the class cant wait as the next ones will be out of the country. its either i stop on tuesday or continue til thursday. 2 dives on wed and 2 on tuesday.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Spoon, if you truly have a bacterial infection, then the antibiotics won't help just taking them one day. You need to take them for the full course. The bugs reproduce, so you're just wasting your time if you stop the medicine before it's done its job.

That said, you may not even need the antibiotics. Did you have any other symptoms - nausea, diarrhea, etc? Or did you just spike a fever? And how high was the fever?

Some doctors have a tendency to prescribe anibiotics for any little fever. You may simply have a viral infection, or no infection at all. It may be your body's response to the cumulative hypothermia you're subjecting it to. Our bodies have natural defense mechanisms to protect them. A fever helps kill those little bugs that make us sick. Or your body may have been working overtime to get itself back to normal temp and just overcompensated. Wear a thicker wetsuit and a thin hood and see what happens.

This is by no means medical advice, just some casual observations. Hope it helps.

 

[Spoon]

Spoon, if you truly have a bacterial infection, then the antibiotics won't help just taking them one day. You need to take them for the full course. The bugs reproduce, so you're just wasting your time if you stop the medicine before it's done its job.

That said, you may not even need the antibiotics. Did you have any other symptoms - nausea, diarrhea, etc? Or did you just spike a fever? And how high was the fever?

Some doctors have a tendency to prescribe anibiotics for any little fever. You may simply have a viral infection, or no infection at all. It may be your body's response to the cumulative hypothermia you're subjecting it to. Our bodies have natural defense mechanisms to protect them. A fever helps kill those little bugs that make us sick. Or your body may have been working overtime to get itself back to normal temp and just overcompensated. Wear a thicker wetsuit and a thin hood and see what happens.

This is by no means medical advice, just some casual observations. Hope it helps.

you are correct as i have observed i have never gotten sick even at 5 dives a day when i was using my 3mil full wetsuit. these things just started happening after using my vest and lycra pants. i was suspecting cummulative hypothermia as the suspect. last week i just simply rested and took my tylenol and vitamins and i was fine the next day.

same thing this weekend, no bugs/virus no nausea just high fever and the usual achy bones and weak fragile feeling state. im much better now and am using this period to recover til tuesday. i already took my frist pill of antiobiotics today. you are right i dont think i needed it. stupid and careless!!! arggg.

what to do now??? stop completely while i only have taken one or just complete it even if i dint have to?

 

[Corigan]

Why not call/email DAN and ask them? They have an 800 # (not sure if toll free works internationally or not).

Matt

 

[ScubaTexan]

Why not call/email DAN and ask them? They have an 800 # (not sure if toll free works internationally or not).

It should, once you add the U.S. dialing code (+1) to the front...

 

[Dive-aholic]

you are correct as i have observed i have never gotten sick even at 5 dives a day when i was using my 3mil full wetsuit. these things just started happening after using my vest and lycra pants. i was suspecting cummulative hypothermia as the suspect. last week i just simply rested and took my tylenol and vitamins and i was fine the next day.

same thing this weekend, no bugs/virus no nausea just high fever and the usual achy bones and weak fragile feeling state. im much better now and am using this period to recover til tuesday. i already took my frist pill of antiobiotics today. you are right i dont think i needed it. stupid and careless!!! arggg.

what to do now??? stop completely while i only have taken one or just complete it even if i dint have to?

Keep taking the antibiotics. Based on your other thread, you may actually need them. Less of a risk to take them than to not take them.

 

[Spoon]

Keep taking the antibiotics. Based on your other thread, you may actually need them. Less of a risk to take them than to not take them.

thanks bud. hope i get more answers...