Talk:Nitrofurantoin
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Ummm....why is this a very fishy sounding drug? I couldn't find a bigname pharm company who makes it or the official site.
- I'm (temporarily) doing admin work for the NHS in a microbiology department. Part of my job involves reading request forms for specimin analysis and reading antibiotic sensitivities to hospital staff and GPs. I can tell you with absolute certainty that nitrofurantoin is quite real, and is in fact one of the most common antibiotics I've encountered (it is indeed "it is commonly used to fight urinary tract infections": "?UTI" and "nitrofurantoin" are two of the things I see most commonly scrawled on urine microscopy request forms). Unfortunately my boss, who has worked there much longer than I have, is completely incapable of pronouncing the word correctly, and has even gone so far as to mock me for my correct pronunciation. Thankfully I'm leaving soon. TheJames 20:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
this is a very well-known, antibiotic commonly prescribed in the United States (at least) for chronic urinary tract infections. I am somewhat perplexed by the second sentence "It is only useful in the treatment of cystitis" but I am not a Doctor...
Similar comments from me, a non-doctor with chronic prostate problem. In my case, none of the antibiotics seem to work but the Macrobid.
Macrobid, not Marcobid--needs correction.
