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Can antibiotics cause Afib

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I was given antibiotics for a bladder infection and I have been in Afib for 24 hours. Has anyone experienced this?

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Any inflamation in the body will often bring on AF. Hopefully as the antibiotics take effect the AF will deminish.

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Thank you for this information

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I had had a recent ablation last March and developed a really bad case of pneumonia, seven weeks later. I was given a 10 day course of antibiotics and an inhaler to be used 3x a day for a week. No Afib whatsoever here. From start to finish, about three weeks, I had a really terrible cough and that did not activate any Afib either.

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I have been taken into hospital three times over the last 4 years and each time I had a water infection although I didn’t realise I had one and the dr said the water infection probably was the reason I went into afib

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Which antibiotics were you given as Cipro and Fluoroquinolones can give serious side effects and are no longer supposed to be prescribed for bladder and UTI infections.

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I have had one brand of ABs no AF consequences, maybe it was just the extra stress of this issue & the associated consequences that tipped you over into AF.

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It’s the infection which will cause the inflammation & AF as a consequence. Does for me every time & I haven’t had antibiotics for 2 years.

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