dealing with illegals in prescription antibiotics

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

My 8-year-old son is taking antibiotics for Lyme and I'm getting deeper

into a hole of debt buying antibiotics free of illegals from the

compounding pharmacy ($175/month), and since I have maxed out my credit

cards I will have to switch to commercial antibiotics (amoxicillin and

zithromax) full of illegals that are not allowed on the specific

carbohydrate diet that has helped him so much. (My prescription card plan

will not reimburse the difference between the cheapest generic form of a

medication and a more expensive form of the same drug, regardless of the

doctor's prescription saying he needs it.) How can I best minimize the

downside of having the meds come with illegals? He has to take them twice

a day, which works out to breakfast and dinnertime, and since he can't

swallow pills or capsules he has been prescribed liquid antibiotics that

come premade full of artificial colors and flavors and sweeteners, all

illegal. Is it okay to take digestive enzymes with the antibiotics? Will

digestive enzymes interfere with the antibiotics? What else can I do? Do

the tablet forms of amoxicillin and zithromax have fewer illegals in them,

and can they be ground up without destroying the antibiotic? He is and

will be taking these meds long term, so it makes following SCD impossible

and I don't want him to lose all the progress he has made on the diet.

Thank you,

mother of Adam (8, PDD-NOS, Lyme, asthma, egg allergy, SCD 7/06)