Paromomycin User Reviews & Ratings

Brand names: Humatin

Paromomycin has an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 from a total of 7 reviews on Drugs.com. 50% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 17% reported a negative experience.

Condition	Avg. Rating	Reviews	Compare
Dientamoeba fragilis	7.0	4 reviews for Dientamoeba fragilis	13 medications
Amebiasis	7.0	1 reviews for Amebiasis	31 medications
Cryptosporidiosis		1 reviews for Cryptosporidiosis	3 medications
Giardiasis	10.0	1 reviews for Giardiasis	14 medications
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Island...
Taken for less than 1 month
April 11, 2018

For Dientamoeba fragilis "Had severe fatigue etc. for 2 years, UK London Hospital for Tropical medicine prescribed paromomycin (750mg tid) for 10 days. Almost instant recovery. Problems: diagnosis (need test kit to stabilise protozoa) and treatment (only 1 effective drug is licenced for use in UK (iodoquinol), but professor at LHTM stated that he would not use it (side effects were very bad). Important to get dose right otherwise the protozoa come back and are resistant to further treatment. Had been treated with metronidazole and that rendered the parasite resistant to the cheap effective secnidazole (used in other countries)."

10 / 10

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P-A42
March 8, 2016

For Dientamoeba fragilis "Recently diagnosed with D Fragilis, had IBS-like symptoms for 20 years. Took medication twice, 6 months apart. First time did not clear parasite and symptoms returned a week after finishing medication. Second time, now free of IBS-like symptoms 2 weeks after finishing medication."

10 / 10

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Leene...
December 2, 2015

For Giardiasis "Had been given this medicine when I was 8 weeks pregnant. I had contracted Giardia and was told I needed to have an abortion. After exhausting all my efforts with local doctors and the like I called the CDC. This was 1998. I was placed on this med, and completed 14 days of the med and within 4 days the giardia was was back. They doubled the doses and within 14 days I was cured again. Just in time to get past my 1st trimester. My daughter is 17 years old, She is highly allergic to penicillin and cephasporins. And in 2012 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, with no family history. Makes you wonder, but I have my baby <3"

10 / 10

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Dana
July 25, 2021

For Dientamoeba fragilis "The doctors around in Israel are so late behind in acknowledge and understand that Dientamoeba Fragilis is a problem, that I only discovered the pathogen by myself when sent a stool sample to the qPCR lab in the United States. Otherwise I wouldn't know about D.F till now. Anyway five years after... are too late to discover about the ameba, and it's already have become one with the intestine tissue :( Too late. We are suffering from infection while a live.. All the doctors keep quiet together against us. No great medication is available. Not enough research. Many years I didn't know what I have had, and I have spent on searching all by myself/on alternative medicine hundreds of thousands!"

6 / 10

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Anonymous
February 22, 2011

Humatin (paromomycin) for Dientamoeba fragilis "No bad side-effects, but did not eliminate my DF infection!"

2 / 10

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Zeus
Taken for less than 1 month
August 15, 2018

Humatin (paromomycin) for Cryptosporidiosis "Years ago I had Cryptosporidium. Lost 40 lbs in a month because of the diarrhea involved. This drug finally cured me!"

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dange...
Taken for less than 1 month
September 21, 2022

For Amebiasis "good and no much side effects. I take a 1 day course of metronidazole and followed with Gabroral"

7 / 10

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