Clindamycin is effective against gram-positive anaerobic bacteria; therefore it is not effective against Escherichia coli and is not prescribed for UTIs. There are many other antibiotics that effectively treat UTIs.
What antibiotics helps with UTI?
Drugs commonly recommended for simple UTIs include:
- Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Septra, others)
- Fosfomycin (Monurol)
- Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Macrobid)
- Cephalexin (Keflex)
- Ceftriaxone.
What kind of infections does clindamycin treat?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved clindamycin to treat:
- blood infections.
- septicemia, which is blood poisoning.
- abdominal infections.
- lung infections.
- infections of the female reproductive tract.
- bone and joint infections.
- skin infections.
