Gentamicin can cause some serious side effects - like permanent deafness, or kidney damage. This deafness is dose related, and a single dose can cause it - this is one of the reasons it's used only rarely in people.
Spectinomycin has been removed from the market in the US for people...it was used sometimes as a cure for gonorrhea in penicillin-allergic people, but it has side effects too: Rashes, itching, chills. It works in much the same way as Gent does, an aminoglycoside.
Penicillin and ampicillin are both penicillins, with the problems that they cause (allergy, limited effectiveness due to antibiotic resistance, caused in part by giving it to food animals.
And careless use of steroids (including dexamethasone) can cause an adrenal insufficiency crisis (BP control problems, kidney damage), steroid psychosis, immunosupression, pancreatitis, allergy anaphylaxis, etc.
A lot of these problems don't matter much in animals, since they don't live too long, and we don't care if they're deaf.
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