Clindamycin Case Study

In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.

Before administration of any medication the patients chart should be looked at and varify that the patient has no allergies that could be related to said treatment or anything similar in their medical history. Also obtaining a baseline set of vitals prior to medication administration

The patient is allergic to Penicillin; this antibiotic is part of the penicillin family. This is drug is not to be taken if allergic to any penicillin antibiotic.

According to Epocrates, the drug of choice would be amoxicillin (Amoxil), which is in the penicillin family. If failed treatment occurs, a higher dosage of amoxicillin should be prescribed or the drug should be changed to amoxicillin/clavulanate (Augmentin). This should be tried before changing to a different drug class (Epocrates, 2014).

Health experts know that most antibiotic products interfere with the immune system and the digestive system. Most of these products quell probiotic bacteria

Take your antibiotic medicine as told by your health care provider. Do not stop taking the antibiotic even if you start to feel better. Incomplete treatment will put you at risk of not being able to have children (sterility).

In 1970’s researches demonstrated 21% of patients treated with antibiotic clindamycin (Cleocin) reported diarrhea; 10% of the study population developed pseudomembranous colitis as a consequence of this treatment (). By the later 1970’s, C. diff had been recognized as the infectious cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and colitis ().

Benzylpenicillin is a broad spectrum antibiotic. The pre-hospital indication to use the drug are suspected meningococcal disease with the presence of a non-blanching rash and signs and symptoms suggestive of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia. (Fisher, J 2013)

If you were prescribed an antibiotic medicine, take it as told by your health care provider. Do not stop taking the antibiotic even if you start to feel

Take your antibiotic as told by your health care provider. Do not stop taking the antibiotic even if you start to feel better.

If you were prescribed an antibiotic medicine, take it as told by your health care provider. Do not stop taking the antibiotic even if you start to feel

• If you were prescribed an antimicrobial medicine, take it as told by your health care provider. Do not stop taking the antimicrobial even if you start to feel better.

Examples of antibiotics that are commonly used in infection treatment include: gentamycin, tetracycline, streptomycin, and carbenicillin

The antibiotic usually given is tetracycline and erythromycin. Penicillins are useless because the bacterium lacks a cell wall. The body’s own immune systems will eventually take care of the

Jenny Rodriguez is a 28 - year – old para 2 gravida 3 woman. She is 28 weeks pregnant and is diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis.