Can antibiotics cause bloating and severe acidity?

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I can imagine you must be very upset about ongoing abdominal symptoms. Well, I need to know a few things more about your health.

Do you have these abdominal symptoms before, or did you first start to observe your signs when these antibiotics for UTI (urinary tract infection) were started? And do you have diarrhea? Any particular foods which cause excessive bloating and some foods do not? Any weight gain or weight loss in the last six months? And do you work or housebound? Have you ever tested for diabetes, hypertension, or cholesterol issues? What are your current thyroid function test reports? And what medicines are you taking for thyroid issue and their doses? And any recent change in the medication for thyroid? I want to hear from you the answers to the above questions before I can comment on anything.

The drug Nitrofurantoin 100 (antibiotic) is notorious for causing gastrointestinal upsets. However, it is also possible that may be underlying thyroid dysfunction and uncontrolled sugar, weight, and cholesterol issues can all be playing a role in developing your symptoms. And why are you developing recurrent UTI? Are you seeing an expert urologist? Has he done some testings besides urine culture?

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Well, now I can understand your symptoms fully. We gastroenterologist often divide these symptoms in to two. The one is gaseous (which you have) including burping, belching, bloating, and other is pain symptoms (which you do not have). The lower abdominal pain with some pain over lower back region can be secondary to UTI and not neccessarily due to bowel loops. Having said that however, people sometime feel the distension of bowel loops with excessive gases as pain. So there are possible two causes underlying your gaseous symptoms.

The antibiotic you are taking can lead to all symptoms that you have mentioned. Not only this, these antibiotic if taken for longer period of time (40 days) can even alter the composition of your gut bacteria. For this, I want you to consult your urologist, and consider stopping if no more needed, or consider switching to another antibiotic with low abdominal side effect profile. I am sure that your your culture growth would have some other sensitive antibiotics besides Nitrofurantoin.

Second cause is your weight, age, and prediabetes which has impact on your stomach movement, making it slow to function. Also, the tablet you are taking for thyroid suggest it is hypothyroidism, means under active thyroid. In condition with under active thyroid, stomach and bowel loops can work slow and possibly contribute towards your symptoms.

Well I will write the medicine for you to control your symptoms now, and would give advise to control the risk factors namely prediabtes, weight, and underlying thyroid under activity. Find the plan of management below.

I hope this will help you.

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I hope this helps.