Question

A patient calls the clinic and states that her right arm below the elbow is reddened and painful since being prescribed ciprofloxacin (Cipro) for a urinary tract infection. What is your best action

Answer 1

Answer:

It would automatically suspend the administration of ciprofloxacin, since this means that the patient manifests adverse effects on this drug.

It could be replaced by levofloxacin.

Explanation:

It is important to know that this drug is a quinolone, so if the patient had manifestations with other quinolones previously, the use of these drugs should not be administered or prescribed.

Although it is also essential that you know how to rule out the possibility of spreading the infection or neoinfection in that area, the reasons may be many in terms of the clinical manifestations of the arm, that is why making a correct diagnosis in this case I decided to guide you with my presumptive diagnosis, which is that it manifests itself as an adverse reaction to said drug, but the reasons can be many.