Mike Myers’ inadvertent Cipro endorsement

30 Oct

This was pointed out by Josh from Facebook. Mike Myers went on David Letterman last month and talked about going on Cipro for a toe infection. (See around the 4:00 minute mark.) I’m not a doctor, so I’m not going to criticize his medical decisions, but when someone uses a drug as strong as Levaquin or Cipro as a first-defense for an infection, they might be subjecting themselves to disproportionate pain and suffering. Unfortunately, a lot of people hear that they can take one pill for 5 days and choose to do that over the traditional antibiotic treatments. Hopefully, we can help bring awareness to these risks to avoid unnecessary and excessive fluoroquinolone treatments (and subsequent floxings). What do you think?