Cephalosporin symptoms and conditions

My 20 month old son was perscribed Omnicef for a persistant ear infection. Two days after he started the medication, our sweet little boy turned into the Demon Child, that wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink, wouldn't sleep, would scream with terror, or pain every 20 minutes...

He had loose stools as well, but since he wouldn't eat or drink that only happened about once a day.

We took him to the hospital and they ran tests, but could find anything wrong, "It must be the pain of the ear infection..."

My wife and I were going crazy with him, and didn't know what else to do but love him and not try to kill each other from lack of sleep.

About a day after the medication was finished he started to eat again, and within 48 hours he was sleeping though the night. As a matter of fact he could not get enough to eat. He was going to gain back the 5 pounds he lost ASAP.

The real kick in the pants is that he still had an ear infection in both ears and ended getting tubes in his ears two weeks later.

We are taking the precaution to never let him take cephalosporin derivatives again.

I can't believe that the manufacturer of this drug does not list these behavioral reactions in the small print. It would have saved us a lot of heartache if we had known and could have discontinued the drug.

Just an FYI to BettyPaint and any one else on the board that doesn't know this. Ancef is not in the same family as Levaquin. Levaquin is a flouroquinolone. Ancef is not a flouroquinolone or a quinolone. Ancef is a cephalosporin. Cephalaosporins are another class of antibiotics. The flouroquinolones (Levaquin, Cipro, Floxin, etc) are what is causing everyone's problems on this board. I took 1 500 MG of Levaquin 5 months ago and I still suffer with tendon pain in my achilles and plantar fascia. Both feet! It's unbelievable. Levaquin has horrific side effects associated with it.