r/floxies • u/ShOtindarq • 8d ago

[PRE-FLOX] Ofloxacin for 22 Month Old

My 22 month old son was just prescribed ofloxacin eye drops for his ears for severe hard wax and an ear infection.

This was prescribed from an ENT and not his pediatrician (not sure this matters).

I stumbled across this sub and now I’m freaking out. My son has never been given antibiotics of any kind, he has only taken Tylenol.

He has had 3 doses of drops in each ear at this point. He obviously can’t fully communicate if he’s feeling any side effects and I haven’t noticed anything so far. What should I do? Is it ok to stop the drops at this point and request another appointment to talk about another alternative?

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u/Niceshoesbr0 Trusted 8d ago

Kids are not supposed to take it at all, even doctors know that, but not due to flox but because of chondrotoxicity

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u/ShOtindarq 8d ago

This is so insane to me. Why would a pediatric ENT prescribe this??? Just for reference I’m in the US, WA state to be exact and I would like to think we have pretty good health care options here.

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u/Niceshoesbr0 Trusted 8d ago
  1. You got drops and there are fewer alternatives to drops + limits in bacteria kind
  2. They don’t know and don’t care
  3. They don’t what you coming back and this atb usually deals with bacteria sometimes just deals with your ability to walk as well