quote:Also, do you know why they prescribe cipro and flagyl in tandem and not just the cipro alone?
They seem to work well in tandem or as a duo, like Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, Simon and Garfunkel, and Hall and Oates (not to mention Laurel and Hardy and Penn and Teller ) . The efforts of the duo seem to outstrip the solo efforts of each partner. I am not sure why.
Cipro/Flagyl in tandem are my most powerful antibiotic combo, followed by xifaxin and then augmentin. All of them work, but augmentin is probably slightly less effective than xifaxin.