Keep infection at bay with Doxycycline

Doxycycline is a powerful antibiotic that has been used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections and osteoarthritis. To see more about how antibiotics like Ciproxin can be used to fight different types of modern infection problems, please click here.

Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic used against a wide variety of bacterial infections, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other fevers caused by ticks, fleas, and lice; urinary tract infections; trachoma (chronic infections of the eye); and some gonococcal infections in adults. It is an approved treatment for inhalational anthrax. It is also used with other medications to treat severe acne and amoebic dysentery (diarrhoea caused by severe parasitic infection of the intestines).

Research in 2004 showed that Doxycycline also inhibits the breakdown of joint cartilage in osteoarthritis. In a 30-month clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of Doxycycline versus placebo in women with knee osteoarthritis, women who took the antibiotic had 33% less joint space narrowing – indicative of less cartilage loss – and also were less likely to report worsening of their knee pain than those who took a placebo.

Dosage:
For most infections, Doxycycline is taken once or twice daily for 7 to 14 days. Sometimes, the first dose is given as a double dose.