Madison O’Reilly is a 6-year-old Caucasian female who has been brought to the pharmacy’s walk in

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.

Adverse reactions to drugs are common and almost any drug can cause an adverse reaction.

Antibiotics: i.e. Amoxicillin, a penicillin based antibiotic which fights bacteria in your body. It can only be taken if you are not allergic to Penicillin and do not have

Although some agar plates were hard to see if the streptomycin had a definitive zone of inhibition. Ampicillin, erythro-mycin, penicillin, sulphafurazole was ineffective with no inhibition zone.

Here’s a list of medications that are known to interact with this drug. There may be others not listed. If you have any questions, ask your

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.

Cephalexin and Gentamicin would be effective since they are equally sensitive to the pseudomonas aeruginosa microbe which implies they will kill the microbe and work against the bacteria.

Although it is preferred that pregnant women do not take medications because of the affects it could have on the baby, there are a number of antibiotics that are effective in treating kidney and urinary tract infections that are known to be safe for both mother and baby. Such antibiotics are cephalexin, ampicillin, and

Therapeutic Alternatives: includes esomeprazole with clarithromycin and amoxicillin or to combine Omeprazole with clarithromycin and amoxicillin.

Age plays an important factor when considering prescribing drugs as the very young and the elderly will have difficulty with the metabolism and excretion of drugs. Even the healthiest of the ageing population will have a degree of renal impairment which delays excretion through the kidneys, increasing the duration of action. However when dealing with an acute illness, which are the patients I encounter, a further and rapid reduction in clearance will exacerbate this process. Liver function may also be impaired during acute illness resulting in delayed drug metabolism (Beckworth & Franklin, 2007). Therefore, before any prescribing can take place a diagnosis must be accurately made and underpinned by an understanding of basic pathophysiology eg, a recent review of bloods to assess renal

There is limited evidence for the pre-hospital use of Benzylpenicillin. Using medical search engines/databases including PubMed & prehospitalresearch.eu, searching for adults, Benzylpenicillin & pre-hospital bought back very limited appropriate articles. One study found showing the use of Benzylpenicillin pre-hospital came back quite disappointing. The number of cases audited was low and the majority of the information was

Generally, it is used to treat bacterial infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear, lung, skin, and urinary tract infections. Ampicillin comes in three forms: capsule, liquid, and pediatric drops. Capsules should be kept at room temperature and not stored in bathrooms to avoid excessive heat and moisture. Ampicillin and penicillin are both beta-lactamase agents. This means they affect the formation of the bacterial cell wall, specifically the final step: binary fission. Ampicillin is different from penicillin because of an amino group. This amino group allows ampicillin to also be effective on gram-negative cell

botulinum antibiotics are recommended for their treatment (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015). However, antibiotics should not be used on patients with other types of C. botulinum because it can advance the release of the toxins (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015). There are three different antibiotics that can be used on wound C. botulinum patients, Penicillin G (Pfizerpen), Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), and Clindamycin (Cleocin). Penicillin G is the preferred drug for wound C. botulinum the other two are an alternative to penicillin (Chan-Tack, 2015). “Penicillin G interferes with synthesis of cell wall mucopeptide during active multiplication, resulting in bactericidal activity against susceptible microorganisms” (Chan-Tack, 2015). “Chloramphenicol binds to 50S bacterial-ribosomal subunits and inhibits bacterial growth by inhibiting protein synthesis. Effective against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria” (Chan-Tack, 2015). “Clinadmycin inhibits bacterial growth, possibly by blocking dissociation of peptidyl tRNA from ribosomes, causing RNA-dependent protein synthesis to arrest” (Chan-Tack, 2015). The adverse effects of Penicillin G are seizures and anemia. The adverse effects of Chloramphenicol have a less than one percent frequency, but include nightmares, headache and a rash (Chan-Tack, 2015). The adverse effects of Clindamycin include abdominal pain, diarrhea and fungal overgrowth (Chan-Tack,

It has been a widely held belief for many years that antibiotics are a type of “cure all” used by doctors. However, due to some disturbing medical cases, doctors are becoming increasingly concerned that the same antibiotics they have been using for a number of years may start causing more medical issues than they are helping. In this article there are two real life examples of families who have experienced devastating consequences antibiotics not working as they should.

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