What is IC Doxycycline used for?

Question

I found this in my girl's purse. Its 100 MG

Additional Details

I can go in her purse. Ya'll females snoop through our stuff everyday.

Answer 1

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It's an antibiotic used to treat infection. Skin infections, sinus infections and sometimes acne (zits). It's can also be used to treat sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia.

Table 1. Therapeutic uses of doxycycline (Doryx, Vibramycin)
Traditional uses
Actinomycosis
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Balantidiasis
Brucellosis
Chancroid
Chlamydial infection
Cholera
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Leptospirosis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Melioidosis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Nocardiosis
Plague
Psittacosis
Q fever
Relapsing fevers
Rickettsialpox
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Sexually transmitted disease
Shigella infections
Sinusitis
Syphilis
Trachoma
Traveler's diarrhea
Tropical sprue
Tularemia
Typhus (louse-borne, murine, and scrub)
Ureaplasma urealyticum infection
Yaws
Zoonotic infections


New or increased uses
Animal bites
Atypical pneumonias
Chlamydial infection
Ehrlichiosis
Enterococcus infections resistant to vancomycin (Lyphocin, Vancocin, Vancoled)
Falciparum malaria resistant to chloroquine HCl (Aralen HCl)
Human granulocytic and monocytic ehrlichiosis
Legionella infections
Lyme disease
Mycobacterium chelonei infection
Mycobacterium fortuitum infection
Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
Toxoplasmosis

Answer 2

It's an antibiotic. Why were you digging around in her purse? If my man did that I'd make him a eunuch.

Answer 3

antibiotics. probably for acne.

Answer 4

Why don't you ask her.

Answer 5

Doxycycline is a tetracycline antibiotic. It fights bacteria in the body.

Doxycycline is used to treat many different bacterial infections, such as urinary tract infections, acne, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, periodontitis (gum disease), and others.

Source(s):

http://health.yahoo.com/drug/d00037a1#d0…

Answer 6

i do believe it is an antibiotic if i am not mistaken

Answer 7

Yes its an antibiotic. I used it for a very long time for Lyme disease. Of course as others told you it is also used for other infections.

Answer 8

It can be used to clear up acne. It was also given to soldiers to prevent malaria/anthrax in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some bottle should say "take__pills every __hours to help treat___"

HEY!! Why were you going thru her purse?

BUT you should know that it lessens the success of Birth control pills

Answer 9

it is an antibiotic..=) commonly used to treat infections, the most common prescribed for Sinusitis....

Answer 10

IC Doxycycline is a tetracycline antibiotic. It fights bacteria in the body.

Doxycycline is used to treat many different bacterial infections, such as urinary tract infections, acne, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, periodontitis (gum disease), and others.

Doxycycline may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.