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Co-amoxiclav: Uses, Dosage, and Safety

Co-amoxiclav is an antibiotic used to treat middle ear, sinus, throat, lung and urinary tract infections. It works by disrupting bacterial cell wall formation. Nursing responsibilities include ensuring no penicillin allergy, administering the drug safely with or without food, instructing the patient to take the full dosage as prescribed, and monitoring for adverse reactions like fever, diarrhea or thrush.

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Co-amoxiclav: Uses, Dosage, and Safety

Co-amoxiclav is an antibiotic used to treat middle ear, sinus, throat, lung and urinary tract infections. It works by disrupting bacterial cell wall formation. Nursing responsibilities include ensuring no penicillin allergy, administering the drug safely with or without food, instructing the patient to take the full dosage as prescribed, and monitoring for adverse reactions like fever, diarrhea or thrush.

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Drug name Classification Mechanism Indication Contradiction Adverse reaction Nursing responsibilities

of
action
Generic Pharmacologi It destroys Used to treat Contradicted CNS: fever Before:
Name: c: Antibiotics bacteria by middle ear and in patients >Ensure the patient is not
Co-amoxiclav Beta- disrupting their sinus infection, with a history GI: allergic to penicillin.
lactamase ability to form throat or lung of >Ask patient if she/he
inhibitors cell walls. respiratory hypersensitivity diarrhea had hypersensitivity in the
tract infections to penicillins past
Therapeutic: and urinary and to patients Other: >Reassess his medical
Brand Name: Antibiotic tract who are history for allergic
Agumentin infections. sensitive to Thrush and feeling reactions
Pregnancy amoxicillin and
Category: B potassium
injection- During:
Actual Dosage: associated >Give the patient the
625mg cholestatic medicine, if the patient
jaundice or cannot swallow it whole
Route: hepatic you can break it and mix
PO (By dysfunction. it in the water
mouth) >Instruct the patient that
it is okay to take the
Frequency: penicillin with or without
TID (3x a day) food. But if it upsets the
take it with food
>Administer medication
safety

After:
>Instruct the patient to
take the entire quantity of
the patient as prescribed
even after feeling well.
>Check patient time to
time
>Tell the patient to take
the entire quantity of the
drug as prescribed even
after feeling better

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