Herx

Quick meaning: Herx is a verb meaning (medicine, informal) To experience a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, a negative reaction to antibiotic treatment.

Meaning

(medicine, informal) To experience a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, a negative reaction to antibiotic treatment.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, informal) A Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.

Example Sentences

For quotations using this term, see Citations:herx.

When using any antimicrobial against any Lyme-like infection, most patients will herx at some stage.

Has anyone else herxed intensely even on low dose fenben? I started with 150mg and herxed, backed down to 70mg and still herxed along with my 100mg doxy.

These usually last for several hours, and require little more than aspirin and bed rest. Yet many Lyme newsgroup participants write about a "herx" beginning days or weeks after the start of antibiotic therapy, and "herxing" for weeks at a time -- often in a cyclic fashion.

Word Forms

• herxes
• herxing
• herxed

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