Mar
29
2010
Will doxycycline work to kill a sinus infection?
Posted by: Alan in Sinus Infection, tags: Doxycycline, Infection, Kill, Sinus, WorkI have doxycycline left over from a trip to africa. it is used for malaria prevention. i now have a sinus infection that wont go away. i looked up doxycycline on line and saw that it is used for certain infections but sinus was not listed. the articles say that it may be used for other purposes not listed. will it kill a sinus infection?
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March 29th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Its one the the most powerful antibiotics, it kills Anthrax and Plague, so it will likely kill a sinus infection. I think they would never list it for a sinus infection because it would be like killing flies with a sledgehammer. And also they don’t want bacteria to become immune to it from over-prescribingg for things that aren’t killed by antibiotics, like virus infections. If you have a lot of it left over so you can take it fro two weeks then you might as well try it, just don’t stop for two weeks so you don’t make it immune to doxycycline!