Keflex for Upper Respiratory Tract Infection User Reviews

• Jan...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• November 10, 2022

"Being a person with cancer in remission and following health problems - COPD, bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, chronic sinus and ear infection, odd UTI at odd times. I passed out during the night and woke up on the floor and could not get up off the floor or walk - not COVID. After roughly four to five trips by ambulance to the hospital and various drug treatments with relapses now and again, my GP put me on a low dose of 250 mg Keflex to take one tablet every night, and since that day, I have never had to go back to the hospital or have not passed out again. So possibly I may now be helped with bacterial infections, and I can only speak of my personal experience, but for me, this is a wonder drug. I do realize that bacteria become immune to antibiotics, but as far as I know, I have had no adverse side effects. Antibiotics have come a long way since I was a child. My age is now seventy-nine years of age. I do not have diabetes or heart problems, mainly lung problems, and do not smoke."

• jes...
• November 23, 2020

"I went to the ER, they said I had a UTI, so they gave me Keflex 500 mg 4 times a day for a week. I despise ANY medication because of the side effects, but I didn’t want a kidney infection as that’s way worse, so I took it. I had nausea and some mild diarrhea about an hour in, normal, right? So, a few days in, I felt like I was hit by a truck. I woke up fatigued, my anxiety was so bad, and I developed an achy back that lasted a week even after I was done taking it! I still have some mild diarrhea every day, and it’s been a week since I’ve finished the medicine. I have no clue how I pulled through and took all of it. It did indeed clear up my infection, but I still feel sick. I know it’s a turn-off reading this, and it makes you not want to take the medicine, but you HAVE TO unless you want a kidney infection, which is way worse, and you’ll be put on even more antibiotics if that happens. Just pull on through, but if you genuinely don’t feel good when taking it, talk to your doctor."

• JRL...
• April 28, 2015

"The only antibiotic that promptly and consistently resolves my chronic bronchitis."

• Anonymous
• September 3, 2009

"Horrible, did not work at all on my husband's bronchitis, and his bronchitis turned into pneumonia."

• Ano...
• July 4, 2011

"Unfortunately, did not help 4-year-old with chest infection."