AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question I am on probation and was given random drug testing as a condition of my release. for a while I was negative all the way. I have diabetes and had an infection. I was prescribed amoxicillin. every test I took during that time came up negative for cocaine. I was given another chance and decided that I would not take this or any other drug until probation was over. I developed a kidney infection almost a year later. It was so severe that I almost couldn't walk. I was in horrible shape. during the infection I also continued to test positive for cocaine. I do not use cocaine. Could diabetes, kidney infection or amoxicillin be causing false positives for cocaine?
Answer Hi Geoffrey,
Testing positive for cocaine is not possible due to infection in kidney or due to amoxicillin. There are two possibilities, one being that the testing lab is bad or that the samples have been switched y error. I think you should pursue this rather than focus on kidney infection.
Ravi Ghooi
