Antibiotic Treatment - Using Antibiotics To Treat Arthritis

Mycoplasma was once thought to cause rheumatoid arthritis and led to the antibiotic treatment.

Doxycycline may prevent progression of osteoarthritis. More studies are needed.

Some people have had good results while taking minocycline for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Focuses on antibiotic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases.

Medications have long been considered "traditional" treatment. Since individual response to a specific medication can vary and because possible side effects are also a factor, finding the most effective medication or combination of medications can be a more difficult process than one would expect.

The Road Back Foundation (RBF), founded by patient-volunteers in 1993, is a non profit organization dedicated to support, research and education regarding the treatment and causes of arthritis and and related diseases. A particular focus of the Foundation is treatment and research using safe, low-cost, low-dose antimicrobial therapy proven effective in NIH-sponsored clinical trials.

Treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disease with low dose antibiotic therapy, from rheumatic.org

The theory and hypothesis behind tetracycline used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, from drdoc.

Studies demonstrate a possible link between mycoplasmal infections and rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, from IMM.