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Antibiotics linked to liver damage
Doctors and medical researchers continue to study the link between antibiotic medicines and liver damage
Various antibiotic families, each containing a multitude of antimicrobial types and brands, have been known to distress the liver in many recipients, often causing severe liver damage and, in some cases, death.
While researchers know that antibiotics adversely affect the liver more frequently than any other prescription drugs, they continue to study the frequency and intensity of Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) while looking for ways to determine which patients are most at risk.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has created the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network to amass and evaluate data pertaining to severe liver injury caused by prescription antibiotics and other drugs. The network, which focuses on both retrospective and prospective cases, promises to throw more light on the clinical, genetic, environmental, and immunological risk factors most commonly associated with drug-induced liver injury.
According to Dr. Naga P. Chalasani, the lead author of study examining antibiotics and Drug-Induced Liver Damage, “DILI is a serious health problem that impacts patients, physicians, government regulators and the pharmaceutical industry. Further efforts are needed in defining its pathogenesis and developing means for the early detection, accurate diagnosis, prevention and treatment.”
One commonly prescribed antibiotic, which is believed to be four times more harmful to the liver than other antibiotic types, has been used frequently to treat children with ear aches. Because of the especially harmful side-effects of that drug, many consumer advocates, legislators and medical experts accuse the Food and Drug Administration of “turning a blind eye to serious safety concerns” in the approval of certain antibiotics.
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Acute liver failure (ALF) in children is rare, but when it happens, there is a fair probability that it was brought on by the use of drugs such as acetaminophen and antibiotics. Liver failure occurs when too many of the liver’s cells become damaged or die in a brief period of time. Because the condition progresses rapidly, immediate medical attention is needed to offset the larger damage in the body that liver failure can cause. 
Medical researchers know that antibiotics can cause a multitude of side effects in many of the patients who take the drugs, and an ongoing analysis of medical reports suggests the list of adverse effects is getting longer. A couple of ophthalmologists in Oregon have found that the use of certain antibiotics in the fluoroquinolones family may cause double vision in some patients. 