Published March 20, 2015
These antibiotics can cause heart problems, even death — but you don’t need to take them
There are a lot of problems with antibiotics. This is especially true of the newer antibiotics called macrolides and quinolones. These drugs can cause crippling tendon ruptures, debilitating muscle disease, severe diarrhea, yeast infections, and neuropathy. But don't go away yet. Now we are finding out that they can also cause heart arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). And I'm not just talking about the kind of arrhythmias that are relatively benign. These drugs cause the kind of ventricular arrhythmias that lead to cardiac arrest and death!
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