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Originally posted by sayitwithamini-14:
Flight-ER-Doc, The spectamycin is an oral medication we give the piglets for diarrhea and ceftiofur is a synthetic antibiotic mainly used for respiratory infections. What about those? Would they be of any use.
Spectinomycin might work against certain human bacteria, but it was removed from the market for a reason...Most respiratory infections in people are not penicillin sensitive so it wouldn't do much. It also has to be given in different doses for people with kidney or liver problems...

Ceftiofur is a third generation cephalosporin, a fairly powerful antibiotic...a similar drug made for humans would be something like Rocephin (ceftriaxone), I'd use it on people if I had nothing else...but only for fairly serious infections of the gut (with some SMX/TMP or similar for anerobic coverage).

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